Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The idea is that you specify your values, relationships, and assets, and then match those up with potentially fruitful legal structures, financing models, and growth potential.

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

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. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. As other museums have entered the "participatory learning" conversation, children's museums have not moved on to a new generation of audience and principles.

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" but I didn't have numbers to back it up. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. Personally, I’ve learned to work in whole new worlds, from fundraising to management to community development. It is incredibly rewarding work.

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Museum Director Participatory Culture 55

Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

I was reminded of this "care, then act" framework when I saw a recent story about a student's experience at a powerful issue-driven exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, Half the Sky. When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act.

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Story Participatory Museum History 47

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. I''d just met a local researcher and I thought she''d be a great person to talk to about it. And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. But at my museum , the support doesn''t stop at our visitors.

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 " NetSquared Up Close and Personal. These were in-person meetings that were made possible by the website Meetup. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging.

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Netsquared Wikipedia San Francisco Iraq 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

By calling ourselves a museum, we respond to those cultural institutions that have separated practice from production, exhibition from process, and work from play. People dig in, exchanging treasures with one another like tactile memories, constituting the personal as part of a public commons.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. This is where our challenge lies – to massively scale the production of high quality, low-cost children’s books for a massively multi-lingual and multi-cultural market. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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License Participatory Culture India 93

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Reason #258 I'm glad to live in California: Cultural Connections. Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up a few times a year and host excellent programs on a variety of topics. I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA).

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution.

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Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Sure, I admire cultural organizations that have a strong mission to change education or diversify access or transform the role of art in everyday life, but I'm an insider. A national election is the ultimate participatory project. When you hit a personal goal that helps a larger effort, you feel like a real contributor.

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Product Build Museum Arts 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. As an activist and evangelist for Creative Commons' values and tools, I want to do my part in helping to ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible. Maybe we all need to be role models. How do we inspire? Need some tips?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really. I think that the culture barrier is a really big deal, especially when it comes to dealing with very technical issues. Right, right, right.

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Open Source Open Software Music 100

Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I asked what had happened, he explained that he had been the recipient of an act of tollbooth goodwill; the person in front of him in line had paid his toll. But a gift given from one person to another, however small, feels magical. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how.

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Gift Participatory Museum Model 23

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

There is only one difference: the Books in the Living Library are human beings, and the Books and readers enter into a personal dialogue. They are often one-offs for events but are increasingly included in the regular slate of programming at major libraries and cultural facilities (but at my count, only one museum). well, you know.

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Library Model Museum Europe 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. If your argument is based on visitor comfort and distraction, it should be backed up by visitor research, not personal impressions. hate the sight of people taking photos in museums.

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Museum Photo Policy Open 54

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

However, I have enormous respect for the customer-centered model when it is executed in ways that truly invite visitors in on their own terms and deliver satisfying experiences. Their vision statement is "to inspire Glasgow's citizens and visitors to lead richer and more active lives through culture and sport."

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Museum Audience Music Arts 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

He noted that many institutions I talk about that successfully foster personal relationships with visitors are small places. How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve?

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Community Museum Participatory Relationship 21

Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

And for anyone attending the event and looking for some insight into how to get in on the philanthropic and social advocacy action, here are some of my recommendations on sessions, events and activities that have gold stars next to them on my personal event agenda. But it wasn't here to enterain, no. Karaoke came to unite us in song.

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Conference Government Social Media Influence 38

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Recently, I've been doing a lot of workshops with cultural professionals around the question of developing authentic relationships between institutions and visitors. Unless your organization is tiny, staff members can't have personal relationships with every user--nor, ethically, might they want to. The challenge is initiating them.

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Relationship Museum Game Personal 46

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Today, both of these models are threatened, and within 50 years they will no longer be sustainable. Why are our current models failing? The popular option at this time is to try to beat the experiential competition and ignore the Web-based cultural shift. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Museum Library Participatory Wikipedia 20

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. By the standard set by a culture that judges MySpace as dangerous, perhaps these in-person interactions are even MORE dangerous.

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

You did a webinar for us last year, had to have you back, check her out over at Leadership Savvy, does a lot of good work helping folks with strategic planning, which you’re going to talk about obviously, and just an awesome person. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Here we go.

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Community Video Slides Survey 79

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. At the time when you entered the lobby at the Hammer, the only person there to talk to was the guard.

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Artist Museum Project Public 39

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Personal Democracy Forum 2016. Personal Democracy Forum 2016. Personal Democracy / Gdansk, (Int.) Since 2004 Personal Democracy Forum in New York has been an exceptional opportunity for representatives of NGOs, public administration, activists and journalists to discuss how technology affects politics, government and civic life.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Jeremy: Well first, Rachel, it’s great to be here and great to be with this amazing group here in person and around the world. You see them in business models like Airbnb, right? So that’s an extraordinary model and the reason it’s been able to scale so quickly is because of new power.

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Social Game Model Fun 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

When you have a group of people working together in a network-culture and are facile with the tools, it can be unstoppable. 2) Networks are participatory. 4) Networks are a reflection of where the world is going. There’s a big paradigm shift in everything from our relationship to material goods to organizational models.

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Story Network Examples Action 99

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This post recaps those sessions and other personal highlights of the conference. This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. Kathleen showed lots of participatory elements in the redesigned Oakland Museum of California.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

But we're trying to model a kind of conversation with important people, powerful people, but particularly knowledgeable people, where we say--YOU can go up to a person with a lot of knowledge and ask him "why?," To do this kind of modeling, Robert and Jad actively portray themselves as novices. ask him "how does he know that?"

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Conversation Arts Museum Voice 20

Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Given the lack of established models, there will undoubtedly be some unanticipated curves ahead. Facilitating personal bonds between local producers, consumers, and suppliers can increase resiliency in periods of global supply chain disruption while cutting the carbon footprint of shipping. percent fee processed to move the money.

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Local Digital Experiment Alternative 104

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

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Participatory Design Museum Wiki 26

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. You gave me support as I struggled to lead a museum through a participatory rebirth. is about participation, but I never fully succeeded in making it participatory. The response to this blog changed my life.

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Museum Reflection Participatory Attitude 27

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. In fact, I find that participatory products are often more likely to reflect a formal sensibility than their traditional counterparts.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

It is crucial that LAMs be considered public civic spaces, but Oldenburg's model leaves a lot to be desired. The ideal of third places, that attracts we cultural heritage types, is a democratic space where civic life is built collaboratively and at a personal level. In the 1930s, W.E. Alternatives?

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Place Discussion Library Museum 30