Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

"Putting Fun into Functional" is a really fabulous powerpoint presentation by Amy Jo Kim of shufflebrain , a unique game design company. Each one of these amplifies the extent to which the player/user feels connected to the game or experience offered. There have got to be some great ways to apply these mechanics to museums.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. And when I think back on the past year, some of the most magical things that have happened at the museum have NOT been designed by us. Evergreen Cemetery Board Game. Happening Couch.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

This was the question at the heart of last week''s MuseumCamp. MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. It builds more responsible environmental stewards. It strengthens your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

QR Codes: fab or a fad for Museums? View more presentations from Museums Computer Group. Museums have been using them to enhance the visitor experience and have been early adopters of the technology. Can you embed game design or make it fun? Joe Waters shares an example used for Cause Marketing.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2008

I'm talking about a product that uses the tools of tracking, gaming, and me-to-we design to give a fabulous experience: Nike+. Nike+ provides a brilliant trifecta of sticky experiences, combining tracking, game mechanics, and me-to-we design to support a product, an activity, a community, and ultimately, healthy lifestyles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2006

This month I'm exploring the topic of digital games for social change. In two weeks I'm headed for The Games for Change Annual Conference in NYC (and I'll live blog it, too) The conference brings together nonprofits, game designers, foundations, and academics around the world to explore best practices for social change gaming.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Jane McGonigal and the folks from IFTF have released a new future-casting game/collaborative experience called Signtific Lab. It's fun, I learn something, I'm challenged to contribute something meaningful, and I connect with other users. questions because I believe they invite anyone to creatively respond, unlike "what is?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

  As part of the preparation, we surveyed participants for their burning questions and that's how I created the content. The questions were a mix of strategic and tactical. One question I got was: What Theatre companies are using Four Square in an interesting and engaging way? Photo by Neatonjr.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2007

When we were kids, my dad invented a game he’d play with my sister and I called “yum/yuck.” But it turned into an incredibly fun game for us, because it was about us. But it turned into an incredibly fun game for us, because it was about us. Because the game, on the surface, doesn’t care about its own growth.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2007

In the spirit of this sentiment, this week we look at games for lurkers, that is, games people watch. Games people watch? Isn’t the point to play games? I’d guess, in this country at least, more people watch games than play them. In museums, we always assume that everyone wants to get their hands dirty and “do it.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2010

Note from Beth: I so happy to sneak into last night’s 501Tech Club New York City gathering last night to hear Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum, and Naveen Selvadurai talk about Nonprofits and Foursquare. In fact, Foursquare was started as a response to the question, “How can we get better at living in our cities?”.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 16, 2019

Visitor (though, really my child) at the Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK As I said, last week, I’ve been to a travelin’ girl for the last couple of years. So, instead, I am offering 3 posts this month about what I learned from visiting more than 300 museums. Last week, I talked about what I learned about museum workers.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 17, 2007

It's summer; the museum and the exhibition were hopping. The hot exhibit in question is an interactive in which you play a simple game. The hot exhibit in question is an interactive in which you play a simple game. Just a simple feedback mechanism that turns casual play into a game. Projects game.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

When you find a bar with your favorite song on the jukebox, or a museum room that feels like your grandmother's living room, you suddenly feel a strong affinity and are able to see yourself reflected in the space. It may be great for a natural refuge to remain hidden, but that sounds like a disaster for a restaurant or museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? In children's museums and science centers, this relationship is at its most extreme. They're playing video games. But I don't think that theory holds up.

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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. This expresses itself most powerfully in museums when we talk about building relationships with visitors over time. How often do we remember to put out that second stool?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I got my copy of the fall issue of Museums and Social Issues this week. The theme is "Civic Dialogue," and the journal includes articles on the historical, cultural, media, and museum practice of getting people talking to each other (including one by me about such endeavors on the web). It's fine to drop in and out of the game.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2008

I’ve received a few inquiries over the last year about museums and geocaching. to ask him all the dumb questions about geocaching and museums you can imagine… and a few more. Sounds like there might be some overlap with your museum audience? Both geocaching and museums are fundamentally about exploration and discovery.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2007

I’m working on a virtual museum project these days, and one question that often comes up is “What is the most fun thing we could let visitors do here that they can’t do in the real world?” After all, most of our ideas don’t require a virtual landscape; any museum could commission Kid Rock’s tour of the galleries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For example, if you join a modern art museum, there is a good chance you won’t have to pay admission to other modern art museums. Does anyone carve, knit, sew or create t-shirts… or fun food? You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Design them free on Canva.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

How do you find your way around a multi-faceted museum? 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. It's easy to ask visitors just one question. Do you interrogate the map?

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2010

We ask very important questions of the NTEN community on our wall -- questions like what we should do with leftover 10NTC candy, and how can you stay focused in the office after staying up late to watch the finale of Lost , and what would be a good logo theme for us for June (my personal favorite). > NTEN Facebook Page.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 5, 2007

It’s not a game—there’s no goal or restrictions on how you use it—instead, it’s a technology platform for immersion and interaction, like the web. Most museums already have websites. I’m not an expert on museums who can comment on why museums have websites and what they use that platform for.

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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? Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2007

The article includes a gallery of images of these imagined computers, which have keys for things like "Harry Potter," "games," and "friends." These kids see computers as tools for gaming, music, shopping, creating, and are imagining interfaces that suit their own interests and devices. I'm too used to my keyboard to imagine its future.

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M+R

AUGUST 11, 2021

NFTs might put the “fun” in Nonfungible, but they come with plenty of significant challenges as well. As fundraisers, it’s worth thinking about what assets your organization might be able to auction off, but there are still lots of questions. Fun fundraising with gamers. Not all fun and games. Another downside?

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

This gives you the opportunity to ask questions and engage with one another as they normally would have at the event. Here’s a look at the Faurschou Foundation’s Virtual Tour of their Museum in Brooklyn, NY: [link]. Unrelated speaker: Have a standup comedian, yoga instructor, mindfulness coach, etc join for a fun activity.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

When I talk about the hierarchy, I use the theoretical construct of an issue-based museum exhibit. At level one, the museum preaches to visitors about the issue. Last week, I visited a museum with an exhibition that powerfully illustrated the barriers that prevent people from jumping from level three to level five.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0 context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? Fundamentally the question is ???why

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2010

This morning, in less than fifteen seconds, I saw live video of: a guy on the phone, lounging in front of his computer a guy taking a photo of me while ignoring simple questions a guy who used a mirror effect to look like an alien a penis The penis was the last straw. It may be a fun plaything for people who like to provoke and be provoked.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

Amazon doesn't let you write reviews for the fun of it. Fred created the Net Promoter Score, a metric related to the number of people who answer affirmatively to the question: "How likely are you to recommend X to a friend or colleague?" Supporting Promoters Somewhere out there, there are people who love your museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Today, Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 and watched the Museum 2.0

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

But one question you might find yourself frequently asking is “What kind of fundraising event should we host next?”. If you’re looking for a creative, fun fundraising idea to engage supporters and boost your funding, you’ve come to the right place! There’s plenty of online cornhole games to try out.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 3, 2009

The imaginative context of the workshops allowed us to get past petty sticking points and tackle big questions like how to balance creativity into your work, how to feel good about creating without evaluating the product, and how to deal with the tensions of working in teams. We had fun. We got inspired.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

At 4:30, Steve starts a “pointing game” in which he asks you to point to the tallest building you can see, then the Statue of Liberty, then Nicaragua. After the Nicaragua question, Steve says, “Most of you are pretty good at geography.” He could easily make fun of the (likely many) people who can’t identify the direction of Nicaragua.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end. The Love Lounge I LOVE. with sharpies.

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