Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. Of course that particular question will change, morph, and multiply based on the earlier session, but it will provide a rich framework for generating many useful and practical ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

There are so many big questions about the connected world we live and how it transforms our society, as this opinion piece from CNN discusses. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet. Why aren’t we talking about nonviolent approaches to resolving conflict? ” Widad E.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. Both groups can help by: . Working toward useful standards of measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

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. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. The debriefing question encouraged us to reflect on points of connection and reciprocity. Experience with Middle Eastern Culture and no experience. Efficiency.

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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?" This community was ready for a museum that reflected the unique creative identity of Santa Cruz. Community response.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. At every moment the question of restoration was countered with the preservation of traces. This past July, artist Guillermo Gómez proposed to restore a piece of art.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

We were discussing the potential for cultural organizations to have significant impact across communities: on planning, health, education, and quality of life. What kind of cultural experience offers the right kind of invitation and opportunity for pedestrians in public space? "The arts are future-making."

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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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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Sixteen arts administrators, journalists, and researchers weighed in on the question over a series of posts. Several decried the oversimplification of the question, arguing that it's not an issue of "lead vs. follow" but a spectrum of forms of participant engagement. How do you respond to this question?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

We created programming specifically targeted to families with young kids and adults looking for casual, intriguing, affordable cultural experiences on Friday nights and Saturdays. We've been toying with a participatory future-casting program and or a storytelling series to start moving in this direction. were shamelessly resourceful.

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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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2017

This small, startup cultural project in Rotterdam works directly and intimately with community members to share their stories. It is a platform for social bridging and cultural exchange. In its short existence (it opened in 2013), the place has made a name for itself as a successful community-driven, innovative cultural initiative.

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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? I was surprised by her question. Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?"

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.)

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. The Wikimedians asked if the museum would coordinate a project in which people could photograph artworks in cultural institutions to illustrate Wikipedia articles. The answer to that question depends on your values. and less attendant confusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

" His post sparked some comments about social media burnout and reflections from the US perspective. This leaves me some questions. What does a "listening and participatory" culture in a nonprofit look like? Steve Bridger posted a pointer over at Netsquared to his thoughts on "Buzz Director."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. culturally curious but maybe not inclined to walk into a museum.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. All of these have gone through a series of movements in the last 30 years reflecting cultural shifts and expectations.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Ask questions, introduce yourself, if you haven’t already. Steven: Want to give it a few more seconds and I’ll go to the next question? Okay, so the second question, why don’t you have a strategic plan? If you have a question, please put it in the chat. Strategic planning explores three key questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

These programs involved cultural, educational and training efforts that used interactive theater and storytelling. whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork. What was your most exciting moment as an online instructor?

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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. There's a fundamental strangeness to the concept of a relationship between a human and an organization.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Introduce yourself if you haven’t, say hi, but ask questions, you know, leave comments. And if there are questions that you’re like, “Oh, this is a really good one,” feel free to just say, “Hey, Julie, we got a good question here.” ” That reflection is really important. .

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

As Doug McLennan wrote in Arts Journal , Kim’s message was condescending, impersonal, did not respond to the specific issue at hand, and did not reflect an honest interest in engagement. It would have been very easy to send out a tweet or Facebook update with a link to the article and some version of the question, "what do you think?"

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We need translators within each cultural context. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. But we do have ''and.''

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

To tap into maker culture. While other major non-commercial ARGs (for example, World Without Oil and the forthcoming Superstruct ) are focused on saving the world, Ghosts of a Chance is perhaps the first ARG to use material culture and interpretation as the basis for the experience. Why would an art museum create an ARG?

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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. Frequently, we get stuck on developing participatory projects or events that serve as many people as possible.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

With that in mind, I turned the question of “who is a museum” to the people, here and on my social platforms, even my personal ones. He defined museums as “a lifeline between its community and the wider cultural landscape. When the galleries are quiet, with my clipclop shoes the only sound, the museum feels dead.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

Like most museums, we’re facing some big questions when it comes to the future of school programs: Buses aren’t cheap, and teachers are increasingly stressed about “proving” the value of expensive field trips away from the classroom. If these questions excite you, I hope you will consider applying.

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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. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

This week, we tackle educational programs and this question: what program could compel you to dress in carrots and hit the streets? I was struck recently by the description of players in an alternate reality game, SF0 , in which people go on cultural “missions” around the Bay Area. Good question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

This blog post includes some reflections about my first visit to Africa, the importance of face-to-face meetings and building relationships, and some thoughts about how some of the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit transcend boundaries. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. I don’t teach that way.

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