Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Ken is a game designer and writer who develops narrative, collaborative augmented reality experiences about serious issues. Now, that game, GISKIN ANOMALY , is live. GISKIN ANOMALY is a “historical fiction” game I created for Rich Cherry and the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. What’s the opposite of Voicemail Hell? Mysterious!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

Instead of writing a post and soliciting comments (my typical approach), I used an online polling tool to create a simple game where you could read short provocations about questionable revenue sources and give each source an ethical thumbs-up or down. 3,125 people viewed the game. 610 people played the game.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Virtual Game Night. Games are fun. Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . You can use a virtual event platform with a meeting room option to host multiple games at the same time. Do you know what is fun?

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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?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. European museum visitors appear more comfortable engaging in interpersonal dialogue and social games with strangers. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere. For years, I''ve heard some version of this refrain.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. Get the game pieces here: Playing grid. Technology cards. Roles cards. You Examples.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Early this month, I got the chance to hear legendary game designer Will Wright (Sim City) give a talk. I''ve followed Wright''s work for years because of his unique perspective on the potential for game-players to be game-makers - in other words, to co-create the gaming experience. Both games have rules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

If you look at the replies , you can see that it also got about 30 @replies, including replies where participants played the game. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. .” This tweet got 71 Retweets and 65 favorites. verena_fidelia) April 4, 2014.

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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. In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. Here's how Signtific works (their rules here ): The organizing institution presents a three-minute video exploring a "what if?"

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

It''s resulted in some of my favorite work ever: games like #namethatzoom , projects like FeederSketch , adult-only Ball Pits , and most importantly, the creation of Experimonth , which is what I''d like to blog about today. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' Experimonth started out as play.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. This label set up a casual game for me: look for orange, do the thing. DON’T make the participatory activity too narrow or difficult. We talked afterwards.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. Evergreen Cemetery Board Game. One of our research volunteers, Sangye Hawke, blew me away when she posted a photo on Facebook of the board game she's developing about the restoration work we're doing at historic Evergreen Cemetery. Here's a picture of it in action.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

What does "game 2.0" Games are already highly participatory, but over the last few years game designers have been giving players more control over the gameworld and experience. The ultimate substantiation of this is Spore, a game in which players invent their own life forms and manage their evolution.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. We should see ourselves like those board games, where all the players have to work together to win. As you add more interactive or participatory elements to your space, I invite you to balance a variety of feelings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

We have to find ways to use games not to escape reality, but to re-engage with reality, and that???s t have an inevitable consequence ; it???s s based on the choices we make on the ground, within our own societies, for how we use these technologies. s the exicting thing about the work of Global Kids ???

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

They're playing video games. We assume that adults don't want to do crafts or play games--that they want the "serious" stuff. There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. They're going to trivia night. And herein lies the self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. Have a game plan for what you'll do with past visitors' contributions as you prune to make room for more.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

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. Buses don't employ drivers or operate on city streets to improve the comfort and participatory experience of riding. Today, we look at a familiar thing: urban mass transit.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. All motivation to play comes from the players themselves, since it's not clear where the game is going or what the point is. The game website is clear.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined. The scale and scope of participation in A Show is extraordinary.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). It's not appropriate to force everything into a numbers game. After all, as naysayers of participatory design often remind me, the museum is not a popularity contest.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. It could be a game show. Let me be frank. We have no money. We cannot pay you in dollars. Late night programming. This one is wide open.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

People at work with the games running in the background on their computers. And all of that led to more audience--at all levels of the game. When we talk about embracing participatory experiences at non-professional levels, arts professionals often get worried that the best work will get drowned out in mediocrity.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I host dating games. Creating her own versions of classic board games like Guess Who? In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise. I found this idea really powerful. Our curator writes labels about licking the art.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

When they can give data in a report, when they can show a map that has detailed information, when they can show a photograph that produces evidence, it really changes the game for them." This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

In partnership with women’s rights funds, sport for development organizations and feminist sport activists, Women Win launched the ONSIDE Fund — a participatory grantmaking mechanism that rapidly mobilises unrestricted resources for girls and young women-led organisations and groups through a pooled fund.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Her case study about Structured Dialogue in the Signtific Game in chapter 3 describes a project where people engaged in conversation online about wild ideas. Projects guestpost Book: The Participatory Museum.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Driven by a desire to make a game-changing difference in how people consume content, Tom comfortably resides at the junction where media and technology collide. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

We're working with participatory online artist Ze Frank on an exhibition at the MAH this winter that features the missions, creations, and explorations of his current web series, A Show. We will have some whip-smart game designers on hand to push our thinking. Read more about the project and how to participate here.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Heck, I even learned about a 17th century German drinking game. While in the American Portrait Gallery, we played a game called Matchmaker Matchmaker. comfort interactives participatory museum programs Unusual Projects and Influences' Here’s an example that I experienced on that first tour of the Met.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising. One of the newer entries into the video hosting game is Revver. I don't know what I mean yet. I contributed. I love retro film.).

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