Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

There's a tag applied to many Museum 2.0 Posts under that tag tend to examine non-museum things, from malls to games to ad campaigns , and draw some design lessons for museums from their foreignness. The driver provides live facilitation. I've written before about the power of live facilitators. People talk.

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Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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Participatory Arts Design Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

ve created something that has some impact in the culture. Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio. Technorati Tags: VECoP So, I asked, "There has been a lot of criticism about Second Life lately, do you think we're wasting our time and money? Is it just a fad?" " I don???t

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Second Life Life Participatory Discussion 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Tags: amy sample ward mobile devices netsquared Newsletter NPTech NTEN. At clinics that serve about 1.2 About NetSquared.

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

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. How can we improve on these models to becomes sites for participatory giving? Ideas participatory museum.

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Gift Participatory Museum Model 23

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. The community is facilitated or sparkplugged by Chris Locke. Content is also being added to the site through streams of aggregated content through the net2 tag.

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Netsquared Project Community Offline 50

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. well, you know.

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Library Model Museum Europe 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

That is, you should be able to watch the strangers talk to each other about the designed social object you have created without being directly involved in the action. The point of this experiment is to play with design conditions that support both facilitated and unfacilitated engagement with strangers. So how about it?

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Design Experiment Seattle Social 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

This relationship bit helped me think about how different kinds of folks will be involved with a highly participatory, community-co-created project in the long-term. Ultimately, the workshop facilitator noted that many people who start social ventures choose their legal structure based on discussions with funders.

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

But all of us have experienced more informal, less well-facilitated forms of discourse. Yes, there may be sites for discourse in our lives, but they are not well-facilitated and are more often seen as undesirable disturbances--the kinds of incidences to lead us to look away from strangers on the street.

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Museum Site Facilitation Participatory 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. PersonallyI see a huge potential for web2.0

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Develop Ghana Zambia Mali 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. Use the authority of the museum to facilitate exchange of phone numbers between strangers?"

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

I first learned about this technique from Sam Kaner''s excellent book, Facilitator''s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. Tag Team the Facilitation. To me, this is analogous to the benefits of having multiple staff members engaged with community partners on participatory projects. Yes, it can be inefficient.

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Facilitation Professional Learning Participatory 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

A person is randomly designated as the facilitator for a 15 minute discussion on each of the topics in the envelope. I spoke with Jane Weiner, the director/choreographer of Hope Stone , the dance company creating the piece. Tags: professional development. At each table there will be an envelope with questions inside.

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

We engaged with hundreds of creative folks around the world who developed about 50 virtual exhibits, of which seven were created in real life. 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.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I’ll leading several workshops on The Networked Nonprofit. On Day 3, Mary Joyce will lead a workshop on digital activism using the Story of Electronics , an environmental-themed short film, as a case study and jumping off point for a workshop exercise to create a digital campaign. The Colbert Report. It is about sharing.

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Story Network Action Examples 99

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Now, the exhibit is closed and we're throwing open the doors on what was created. Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

This can be an incredibly technical topic, as it focuses on the ways that platforms (online, exhibits, museums) can harness the individual activities of many visitors and create meaningful experiential outputs that connect people to each other. What "no-tech" visitor actions or interrelations reflect your participatory goals?

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

The text reads: What does it mean to create a new character in SFZero? One of the best articles in the Museums and Social Issues journal on civic discourse, The Hard Work of True Listening , is about the need for lecturers and program leaders to be facilitators of dialogue, not just time-keepers and content providers.

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Program People Museum Lecture 20

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

We have a couple events coming up at the end of the week where we’ll get to work with local government representatives, organizations and community members to discuss how to use social media to create community online as well as enable democratic participation. of other projects.

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Local Community Government Collaboration 150

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

We need to set up spaces in which doing the right thing--welcoming all kinds of people--is easy, facilitated and enforced. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place guestpost. Open ocean is scary.

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Place Discussion Library Museum 30

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2010

At the best parties, each guest feels like his contributions to the conversation are desired, and everyone feels complicit in creating a wonderful social experience. The me-to-we design stages become even more important when facilitation is not possible. Ideas participatory museum. Tags: Core Museum 2.0

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Design Museum Social Participatory 34