Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Participatory Museum Web Indianapolis 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. 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.

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Model Activities Active Activism 98

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The program operates like a camp that is co-led by the teens involved.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Participatory Museum Process Adobe 33

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. What design elements make buses more social than trains? The bus takes a long time. People talk.

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Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. It's a two-parter I've been puzzling over for a long time.

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Technique Question Design Develop 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. "Where were you last night?" If someone asked you that question, how would you answer?

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

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. Insight #1: Build Time for Getting To Know Each Other At The Beginning. I designed an icebreaker that allow us collectively to build an network.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

How do you design an object experience that encourages participation among visitors? This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits.

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Design Participatory Social Museum 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. “No one gets it right the first time. Tags: Books. How much of that social change are we going to grasp?&# (That is a question that the Networked Nonprofit asks.). .

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Participatory Lesson Social Media Review 95

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. nothing happens.

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Participatory Museum Rate YouTube 35

Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

Spring is here and it’s time to talk to strangers. April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that features social objects , that is, exhibits or artifacts that inspire interpersonal dialogue. Tags: Talking to Strangers design.

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Design Experiment Seattle Social 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

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). By the time he got home, 10,000 new people had seen the video.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

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. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

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 Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). But it was an exhilarating time. was generating at the time, have a look at the original series of NetSquared blog posts. The Iraq War was raging.

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Netsquared Wikipedia San Francisco Iraq 52

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

Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

It's been an intense year - finishing the book and spending lots of time on the road working with cultural institutions. My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. Thanks in advance.

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Participatory Chapter Museum Case Study 32

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, Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. The Third C: Community.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

How would you design a recommendation system for a museum? You make explicit designations by making purchases, expressing preference via ratings or reviews, or choosing some things over others. Problem #2: Designing the Value System But what's "better" in the museum context? They have direct personal impact.

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System Design Movie Museum 22

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Teen Social Museum Participatory 49

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum. Dear Museum 2.0

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Help Participatory Museum Wiki 28

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2010

If the party is half as rocking as the name of the venue, we'll have an amazing time. Hosting a session on Monday at 2pm on Design for Participation with participatory design gurus Kathleen McLean and Dan Spock, along with research extraordinaire Kris Morrissey and participatory art rockstar Mark Allen.

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Los Angeles Participatory Museum Arts 20

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. In the Web 2.0

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Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” But now is a great time to start being involved. We are a community of museum bloggers who write from a variety of perspectives and museum disciplines.

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Museum Blogger Cleveland Missouri 52

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Spending time in Europe, I'm reminded how complicated it gets when you have to interpret exhibits for a multi-lingual audience. Many fabulous participatory projects--like the Johnny Cash Project or the Art Gallery of Ontario's " In Your Face "--don't require language. designate the difference between languages using design.

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Museum Work North America Language 38

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. set up any participatory elements and organize the opening, which occurred the following Friday or Saturday. I never knew what my contents were until it was time to create the display. Projects design participatory museum guestpost usercontent.

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Denver Museum Community Participatory 29

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Projects guestpost Book: The Participatory Museum. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum Comment Experiment Participatory 34

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. I was there for a think tank about the reinstallation along with a handful of designers and academics. Create a plan for yourself? Get deliciously lost? What would you do?

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Experiment Lesson Learning Museum 44

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

Side Trip is an immersive environment full of interactive experiences that let visitors share their own stories of the 1960s, make their own rock posters, and explore the music and vibe of the time. It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it. First, the environment.

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Denver Museum Arts Remix 21

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. I tried to picture a time when we were okay with only having a sliver of American society walking in our doors. Autry and Mike Murawski ’s # MuseumsarenotNeutral.

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Museum Work Social Media History 21

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. Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click!

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. My strategy is: make it work really well, research what works and doesn't, and share the design lessons with the world. Maybe not. My model is the shining star. His is the virus.

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Action Ideas St. Louis Museum 31

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

The bad news is that I don’t get much face time with the dog. Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization.

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Experiment Seattle Indianapolis Denver 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Tags: professional development. Facilitator bits. Vary the activities.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. It's better (though it takes a bit of time to load). Side note: three times as many educators filled out surveys than any of the other groups.) The slides are also available for download.

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Slides Process Video Open 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

The in-house team for Click included two curators, one interpreter, one artist/designer, and two web developers, but the person managing the whole project (Shelley Bernstein) is from Information Systems, not curatorial. million people have watched the prairie dog video does not make it a great video or an intelligent use of time.

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Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24