Museum 2.0

APRIL 13, 2008

I'll be speaking at the end of the month at the AAM meeting in Denver, chairing sessions on virtual worlds (Tuesday 9am) and design inspirations from outside the museum field (Tuesday 10:30am). Each year at the Game Developer's Conference, these three share the most interesting gleanings from a year of game design research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

For the past 15 years, I have been excited about nonprofit technology training design and delivery and it is what I will continue to focus on as part of my role at Zoetica over the coming years. My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. But it is also a symbol of a movement for third places that combine commerce, design and community. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

Here's the list for the next two months: April 14-17 - Denver for Museums and the Web conference. I'm giving a workshop on design techniques for encouraging user participation (sorry, it's full). Tags: Quick Hits professional development. April 22/23 - Washington DC. The workshop requires an RSVP, the talk does not.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2009

In this guest post, Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology at the Denver Art Museum, shares his process for developing interactive technologies to extend familiar experiences in art museums. You may remember the Denver Art Museum from this post about their newest (highly interactive) exhibit space, Side Trip.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

We tried this at the Denver Art Museum last week, and it is incredibly challenging—you can’t just put out a box of chocolates and expect people to talk. Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

In designing and developing The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr. Bruce Wyman from the Denver Art Museum shared this: Okay, since we're talking about Flickr, here's a link to a protoype that we did recently.In Here's the description of how they used flickr for the exhibition. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

To address these questions, I sat down with Steve Tokar and Beth Katz, evaluators who deal with design for visitors. In 2003, Steve completed his master’s thesis in universal design (UD) in science museums, and has spent several years working on both UD and more general ergonomic design issues with museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. The most value that will come out of this game, when people start designing their own scenarios. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c More than the addictive nature of game, the action it can take.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. If participatory exhibit design is going to progress as a design methodology, it has to produce outputs that are demonstrably equivalent to or better than exhibits created by traditional methods.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

But it skips some of the fundamental design and operational choices that separate community centers from the rest of the civic and cultural landscape. The Denver Community Museum was an entire institution in a little storefront. Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. Imagine what a big museum could do with a little space.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2007

Exhibit designers think of their products as needing no introduction—especially not from some high school volunteer in a blue jacket. Add in-house developer/designer time and you have roughly $2M over three years of development to get interactives live on the floor of the museum. Tags: interactives.

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