Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. What about content? This all sounds great, in theory. As we look to make an impact, how can we invite community members to create with us from the start? But the technical aspects were only one part of the challenge.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. Why go to the trouble of creating content if nothing is going to happen because of it? participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

We give people content and then we say, "you decide." We want them to share content, we want them to feel really connected to their impact and we want them to represent that to all their friends and family.” This can sound disingenuous. fundraising participatory museum risk Technology Tools Worth Checking Out'

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

From Icommons comes an incredibly useful legal brief to remixing media in the age of participatory media and campaigns by Steve Vosloo, Digital Hero Book Project. The post answers the questions: How do you negotiate the potential minefield of legalese surrounding your content? How do I communicate my content???s shout-out???

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License Law Remix Media 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

People who create content for the public try to appeal to a wide range of people, both in terms of demographics and usage styles. And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. Where do visitors get to vote on their favorite content?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I realize that I may sound like a college freshman who just discovered Psych 101, but heck. In the case of the Stanford study, I was fascinated to learn that the content of the music video was significant in terms of signaling change in prejudice. This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

In the most extreme cases, I've talked to folks from museums that are government-mandated to provide all content in multiple languages who say they are unable to invite visitors to make comments because they'd have to translate all of them and simply can't dedicate the resources to do so. So what are the options?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. But if you give them something to give to someone ELSE, then your content spreads, packaged in a bundle of goodwill.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. When he speaks about these photos, Paul spends little time on the content of the exhibits.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Usually, the institution wants to maintain some control--whether over where the content comes from or how it is selected and organized. In this way, Click is a powerful example of the "venue as content platform" definition of 2.0. We are just providing the container, the mechanism so it can function. They kept the interface simple.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. Research suggests that effective social media isn’t just about shilling but instead about sharing valuable content. The work is 24/7 and the pay can be 7/11.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Where Radio Maria collected and re-broadcasted incoming voice content, Volta Star in Ghana focused on improving access to radio segments by posting outgoing content. Making radio more accessible in Ghana.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. Who cares if children's museums don't change as long as the content and the experience is good?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

Events are not all logistics and content. Sounds like great participation to me. Closing rituals seal the shared experience of the event and launch us back into the real world with the event's imprint on our hearts. The Art of Gathering expanded my understanding of what it means to build a powerful culture of participation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It's a worthwhile 30 minutes of discussion about the use of sound to provide an emotional context for stories--specifically, stories about science. They have arguments about consciousness without sounding pretentious. And that makes it feel much more participatory. They ask each other the dumb questions a listener wonders.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

I'm not talking about guiding content; I'm talking about guiding form. If your goal is to encourage visitors to perceive themselves as partners in the content co-creation experience, make room for their thoughts sooner rather than later. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. This may sound obvious and natural, but it’s easy to underestimate the power of institutional culture.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. But there were 52 people who spent several hours working on the project as content reviewers or copy-editors.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

To some people, these events may sound like losers. Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. The key to these benefits is not the volume of online content produced but its reach. They don't generate rental revenue (usually). I don't think so.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. Not only are they offering content, they're taking totally geeky endeavors like "trivia" and "spelling bees" and turning them into hot commodities. Can a venue be as important than the content packaged inside it?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

While there is much talk about supporting participation and making museum content relevant, the word "community" hangs like a poorly-defined carrot on a shtick. Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. Nothing says community like free bbq on the patio. See the link to the left. And a final statement.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

Rating content from one to five stars may seem like a frivolous activity, but for Netflix, it's serious business. This may sound like a trivial difference, but it leads to a real value shift when it comes to the Unsuggester. Tags: personalization participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. If life is a chessboard, content is still king. That sounds like a horrible way to die. They'll do what they do best.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. This may sound strange, but Mini determined via brand monitoring that they had an extremely enthusiastic, Web 2.0-active

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

Often I’m standing at an exhibit, totally thrilled by the way I can use my hands to make cloud formations or listen to strange sounds or… and would LOVE to share it with strangers. Having personal relationships with museum content is a start—but that’s just the first step, when you clip the leash on the dog and call it yours.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. The point of Second Life is to lower the barrier to build things--things that move, things that make sounds, things you can explore (like exhibits).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. I have to feel like the post is open enough to my experience, that the blogger and the community of that blog would find my voice worthwhile, that I have some strong reaction I want to share, that I won't sound stupid. it gets me excited.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

And while SAAM is steering the content, Ghosts of a Chance is being produced by City Mystery and the Playtime Anti-Boredom Society , some of the same fine folks who brought you SF0. And while the contract negotiations sounded hellish, the internal support for the game was surprisingly easy to come by.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

But the content was so remarkable that visitors felt the need to just to consume it but to point it out to others. Throw in the real-time nature of a museum visit, visitors' reticence to participate socially in the museum, and archaic data systems, and this may sound downright impossible.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. But the exhibit team did something novel.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. Wikis don't explicitly acknowledge individuals with "profile power"--content is prioritized, not identity. Wikis work best in situations in which content, not socializing, is primary. Wikis are great for documenting events with many parallel content tracks.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I've been arguing that "visitors as participants" means participating BOTH with content and with other visitors, but that begs the question: do visitors really want to have social experiences with each other? Tags: participatory museum inclusion visitors. After all, people visit museums in their own pods for a reason.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy that aims “to expand people’s power to make government decisions.” While the promotional materials all sound impressive, don’t believe everything you read.

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