Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. They’re tagging with yarn. exhibition guestpost inclusion participatory museum' Stefania will respond to your comments and questions here.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

One of the things you have to do with user-generated content -- participatory media projects is show the work to encourage others to jump in. Unfortunately, it didn't have an option for "groups" - you can only pull photos based on tags or a user. So, I went to the pool and added a unique tag to the 17 photos.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. Tags: inclusion comfort.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Create a plan for yourself? This was reflected again in a great encounter I had at the Walter's Art Museum later in the weekend, when a silver-haired, well-coiffed lady (the perfect image of a traditional museum goer) told me "I get so annoyed by how quiet museums are. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. There was no agenda or angle in setting up the DCM, the idea was simply to create an awesome place for the community to share their stories. As a result, each month a new community collection was created to be put on display.

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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

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. What's GOOD about Signtific is that it encourages people to reflect on others' submissions and react to them in a series of intentional ways. What if we created suppositional interpersonal engagement platforms (what if?

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Game Experiment Participatory Museum 24

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. The project's setup also created more work for participants and museum staff than anticipated. The participants received a numbered list of objects to photograph and could tag their images with these id numbers instead of with accession numbers.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

If this were a web-only project, I wouldn't be surprised: many museum directors and curators ignore what happens on their websites (and technology people use those loose reins to create all kinds of content experiences). But it's pretty unusual to have a REAL exhibition led by a web person. They kept the interface simple.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. They reflect the soul of the community and can be responsive to its unique interests and needs. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences. It creates another forgettable museum. Tags: children's museums design business models.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. All of these have gone through a series of movements in the last 30 years reflecting cultural shifts and expectations.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. created by visitors and contributors so we can access "in my words" content all in one place. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 It's not self-important.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

When you want visitors to spend a long time reflecting and sharing their thoughts, you need to design spaces for response that are comfortable and minimize distractions. What design techniques do you use to create successful visitor dialogue experiences? What have you seen work well, and what have you seen fail?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. 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. | View | Upload your own.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

Some responses were more reflective, like "I will never forget." The handwritten pledge is an intelligent starting point for creating merged digital/analog participatory experiences. Which physical actions do you wish you could merge with digital story-sharing to create more powerful content experiences?

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Pledge Museum Digital Indianapolis 23

Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Many museums have been experimenting in these spaces by creating institutional profiles, museum affinity groups, and connecting with visitors and other museum professionals individually. Why might a museum create its own social network? Most free social networks include advertising that may not reflect museum mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I hope to share some simple and fun ways to create "shoulder-to-shoulder" instructional media for the panel on Screencasting at NTC I'm doing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

But the thousands of people who view the resultant reviews and videos will form an impression of your institution based on them--so as much as possible, make sure that impression reflects messages you'd like to share about your institution. Create custom elements for the event(s) that put your content at center stage.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Why would an art museum create an ARG? The initial "ask" on the website is specific: create a necklace and mail it to the Luce Center. And the "stuff" of the game is real stuff, artifacts created by players and sent to the museum. To expand their audiences. To tap into maker culture. The game website is clear.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

By understanding what individuals are highlighting about the Exploratorium experience, the museum can craft its own messaging--and programming--to reflect and enhance the elements seen as most valuable. The company in this sense is a tool to create value for the brand. How can the Exploratorium create more value for their brand?

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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. The resulting (real) exhibits are high-quality experiences that reflect a level of creativity that could not have resulted from our scant in-house exhibit development staff.

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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. 2) Networks are participatory.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

I am the director of a non-profit that promotes open museum practices, and we are in midst of launching a free service for arts organizations: a web site that permits any museum to create a participatory exhibit space and social network centered on the museum's collections. Tags: Books pinko marketing relationships.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

While we may grudgingly acknowledge the fact that visitors create their own versions of the message around subsets of the content, we don't consciously empower visitors to redistribute their own substandard, non-authoritative messages. The problem arises when expertise creates a feeling of entitlement to control the entire visitor experience.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

If some visitors create and others consume, there's a social interaction. There are many collections-rich museums that have created ways for visitors to create their own digital collections. Gifting is a powerful participatory behavior. participatory museum. Tags: web2.0 Not all Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

I've long argued that visitors should be able to judge and prioritize the comments, videos, and other media created by visitors in the course of a visit. And then staff can spend their time where it's needed most--figuring out how to interpret and add value to those prioritized suggestions and visitor-created elements.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Now, the exhibit is closed and we're throwing open the doors on what was created. It also includes reflections from the exhibit team on the project. Random passers-by got hooked and spent twenty minutes carefully reading each post-it, writing responses, creating chains of conversation and spin-off questions and pieces of advice.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2007

The level of user engagement is self-determined by your interest in the content and your motivation to reflect on it, either singly or with your companions. By networking the ratings, tags, or comments individuals place on content, individuals are linked to each other and form relationships around the content. Tags: web2.0

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

The text reads: What does it mean to create a new character in SFZero? Functionally, we should be the way we wish politicians would be: responsive, interested, intelligent folks who can understand audience desires and reflect them back in meaningful and sometimes challenging ways. Your character looks exactly the same as you.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

Oh, and they wanted it to be participatory. It looks great—60 pages on the theme of “hustle” culled from 1502 submissions (all of which were created, received, selected, edited, and laid out in 48 hours). We didn’t have explicit criteria for selection—it came down to whether a piece was outstanding and reflected the theme.

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Participatory Journal San Francisco Interview 36

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The goal, from IMLS’s standpoint, is for NAS to create a report that can address the fundamental issues facing museums and libraries in the 21st century, with an intended audience of industry professionals, trustees, funding sources, and government representatives. Tags: professional development. Let’s change that.

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Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. While we may grudgingly acknowledge the fact that visitors create their own versions of the message around subsets of the content, we don't consciously empower visitors to redistribute their own substandard, non-authoritative messages.

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