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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Game Museum Participatory Comment 20

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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Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

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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Culture Participatory New Zealand Museum 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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Social Media Headline Media Social 101

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. What questions do you have? Roles cards.

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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

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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Game Artist Museum Participatory 40

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. questions because I believe they invite anyone to creatively respond, unlike "what is?" questions, which imply a correct answer. question and allowed open response, it would not be as good.

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Game Experiment Participatory Museum 24

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. But at my museum , the support doesn''t stop at our visitors. Experimonth started out as play.

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

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. To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. Evergreen Cemetery Board Game. How do community members make your institution better? Here's a picture of it in action.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. We could also IM our questions from the adults were listening and observing. 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

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Second Life Life Participatory Discussion 50

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?" And the next time someone questions the benefits of letting audiences actively participate, send them to Santa Cruz.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

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

JULY 11, 2012

And to cut to the end of the story first, yes, we are creating a project together, yes, you can participate, and yes to whatever other questions this brings up in your head. Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections.

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Museum Participatory Artist History 45

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? They're playing video games. We assume that adults don't want to do crafts or play games--that they want the "serious" stuff. They're going to trivia night.

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Interaction Design Museum Participatory 47

Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Storytelling Collaboration Video Thailand 67

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? This isn't just a rhetorical question. The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. The scientists control the process, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

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). I've struggled thinking about the answer to that question. It's not appropriate to force everything into a numbers game. Would my enthusiasm have been different? Projects.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

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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Game Museum Arts Alternative 20

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. That’s a tough question. Ultimately, it hinges on coming back—time after time—to the same five questions: Why should my audience care about [insert content]?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

People at work with the games running in the background on their computers. Barry Hessenius recently wrote a blog post questioning the theory that more art into the school day will increase and bolster future adult audiences for art experiences. And all of that led to more audience--at all levels of the game. It''s exciting.

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Arts Build United States Audience 47

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I host dating games. Attendees brought up questions about how they can get more involved with financial discussions in their institutions, how we can change the ways we approach fundraising, how we can think about earned income differently. Creating her own versions of classic board games like Guess Who? for the galleries.

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Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Collaboration Storytelling Video Thailand 44

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 History Netherlands Create 36

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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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 partnered with staff member Bambi Grajek-Specter, and we went out into the galleries armed with a simple question: "What would you recommend that I see?"

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Experiment Lesson Learning Museum 44

Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. The social media user types, like learning styles or gaming styles, are more like personality traits than exclusive groupings. design participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

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! Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content?

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I'll be adding a bunch of answers to your questions and some other ways to browse the archives this weekend, and then I'll link to it from the main blog site starting on Monday. related questions , starting points , and guides to the blog--for this to truly be a living resource it has to keep growing. Living Archive.

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Fund Teen Museum Game 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

We also ended the entire event with one of my favorite exercises, the Exquisite Corpse game, in which participants co-created comics of their craziest museum dreams. I gave an hour-long talk about participatory design practices ( video here ), and Jim gave a small tour of an exhibition he had organized nearby. Facilitator bits.

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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 like an organizational game of madlibs. Tags: participatory museum professional development. Confidently and clearly state your institutional mission, values, and capabilities.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization. There are also lots of other great papers from the conference; my favorites so far are the evaluation report on the impact of the Wolfquest game and conversational learning on the Science Buzz blog.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

If someone asked you that question, how would you answer? Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. If someone asks you a question on Twitter, you can only respond with 140 characters. "Where were you last night?"

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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. The idea of sending winners a reward is nothing new, but in this case, the reward shares the same sensibility as the game, thus more effectively deepening the relationship.

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Relationship Museum Game Personal 46

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine workshops led by inspiring rock stars from gaming, festivals, and special effects. We've created an alternative website to provide a more participatory version of the standard pre-conference informational site. Imagine a small enough group that you can spend meaningful time with brilliant people in your field. Sounds good?

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Collaboration Registration Brain Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. 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.”

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