Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Have you seen attitudes in our field about visitor participation shifting over time? In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

I read this sentence many times without comprehension. I imagined an academic conversation stuffed with arcane, impenetrable vocabulary. When should you turn down the invitation to share your voice? There are many ways for voices to get chopped and twisted. I walked into Against Participation with my hackles up.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer. There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

And pop culture icons, from basketball players to rock stars , are making highly visible commentary with their clothes and voices. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” Where do museums fit in?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. The voices are recorded, the doors perpetually closing. The bus takes a long time. They go where cars, bikes, and pedestrians go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). The American Red Cross can’t be everywhere at the same time. Disaster work.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I heard incredible—and often salacious—stories behind hidden gems I’d walked past numerous times. We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. It allows a little more freedom, and it also gives people many voices and personalities to engage with.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

In 2005, at the Les Blogs conference in Paris, there was a flap about the backchannel because the conversation crossed a line. . I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. How can the backchannel enhance our attentiveness and learning ?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

At the time, I was a Twitter non-participant, a lurker on the edges. It’s about conversations. to be a more participatory site with comment streams rampantly debating each post topic, but the reality is that my voice dominates the site. If I told you I'd created a participatory website in which 0.3%

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

This seems like an appropriate time to share the story. In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. Every time a kid said, "I never knew science could be like this!" Last week marked four years for the Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What if a funder got real-time input from its grantees and other partners to develop its investment strategy? In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. This approach would also create capacity for new voices and new ideas to be engaged in the environmental movement.

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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. I tried to picture a time when we were okay with only having a sliver of American society walking in our doors. This decade has begun the conversation about labor.

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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. It's better (though it takes a bit of time to load). Side note: three times as many educators filled out surveys than any of the other groups.) The slides are also available for download.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2008

People already know how to leave voice and text messages and don't have to grapple with a comment system to do so. On the voicethread during the time it was active, there was a 20% comment rate. My guess is that the voicethread technology looks and feels more like a conversation than blog comments do. First, device familiarity.

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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. Several said things like, "I was curious to see how this kind of participatory, collaborative approach would work in practice."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. I also wondered how truly useful their comments would be and whether I'd spend all my time chatting and not enough revising.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A. Steven: I’ve heard that you know, every time I talk to someone in the Bay Area it’s always foggy. But I don’t know how you make time for webinars, Renee, because you’re doing all these other things. We don’t have the time about 16%.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

--Elaine Heumann Gurian, The Importance of "And" Recently, I''ve been embroiled in local and national conversations about the relationship between active participation and quiet contemplation in museums. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Can I help next time? ve found ourselves spending a lot of time in Flickr. Everyone is a Curator. Another theme of web2.o

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They prove that the conversation is two-way. They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. If my dad blogged, I'd comment all the time. But in them, I wrote something personal which put me on a conversational level. So when people ask, "Why don't more people comment?,"

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. It's reasonable to start a side conversation. They aren't game show participants or a lecture audience; they're a group of people out having a good time. Yes, bars have always featured live music, comedy, and spoken word.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I''m appreciative of the time Ellen Gamerman spent researching the article. There are many curator and museum director voices in the article, but not a single quote from a visitor who engaged in one of these community projects. I had to imagine the deep conversations visitors had as they deliberated on which painting to vote for.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

For those who haven't listened, Radiolab is an hour-long popular science show that looks in-depth at topics like "emergence," "time," and "mortality" from a range of scientific perspectives. Effectively, Robert is saying that Radiolab isn't just a show where the hosts have conversations with scientists. And they're doing it quite.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. If good ideas are easy to come by, why not let other people contribute them and focus our time on the hard work of execution?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Yes, the Exploratorium is also present in these arenas as a "talker" (more on that next week), but it is just one voice among thousands. To form the basis for community, the comments should be publicly shared with other visitors so that they can present a dialogue, not a one-way conversation with the museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The overall goal is to reduce waste: wasted time, wasted effort, and wasted money. Back to the Roots’ mission is to make food personal again through the passionate development of tools that educate and inspire, one family at a time. Their efforts yielded a donation conversion increase of 49% and increasing sign-up conversions by 161%.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For causes, this can range from increasing conversion rates by testing simple design tweaks, to nailing rapid response and raising $24M in a weekend. While we had a decade to adjust to websites being important, we’ve had a lot less time to figure out social media, and even less time to adopt a mobile first world. Technology.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. New voices energizing conversations. 11/10/2016.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Community engagement, though at times unwieldy and time-consuming, is critical to truly propel all variables towards a common goal. We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A so don’t be shy, don’t sit on those hands. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods.

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