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Visiting the Smithsonian On Vacation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. At the Natural History Museum, we visited the David H. You had the option of emailing the photo to yourself and it came with a description as well as a mention of what to purchase in the gift shop or where to donate. Tags: Engagement smithsonian.

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DC Asia Offline Participatory

Guest Post: One Museum's Experiment with Threaded Comment Stations

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Jasper Visser and his colleagues at the not-yet-physically-open National Historisch Museum of the Netherlands have impressed me with their innovative, thoughtful approach to developing a dynamic national museum. Last weekend my museum presented itself at the Uitmarkt in Amsterdam. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum Comment Experiment Participatory

Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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Museum Photo Policy Open

Participation through Gifting: Pass It On

Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

donation to the universe, is a gift. We've all received (and hopefully given) gifts from strangers before--the woman who lets you go to the bathroom first, the family that hands you some carnival tickets on their way out and your way in. But a gift given from one person to another, however small, feels magical.

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Gift Participatory Museum Model

A Birthday Request.

Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

Dear Museum 2.0 My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. I can't wait to "unwrap" the stories and ideas you gift me. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. readers, Today is my birthday. Thanks in advance.

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Participatory Chapter Museum Case Study

Navigation by Recommendation: Lessons Learned from a Little Experiment

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. A recommendation is a gift, and it is best packaged in some positive or intriguing sentiment.

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Experiment Lesson Learning Museum

Curate Your Own Membership: An Interview with the Whitney's Director of Membership

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Audience segmentation and research has become a hot topic in museums, especially when it comes to crafting appealing offerings that are customized to different kinds of visitors. I sat down with Kristen Denner, Director of Membership and Annual Fund, to learn more about the program's development and the museum's goals for its future.

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Interview Director Museum Arts

The Participatory Museum Process Part 3: My Experience

Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment

Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. I spent an hour this morning "brand listening" to what the online world says about one of my favorite museums, the Exploratorium.

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion

Foot in the Door: A Powerful Participatory Exhibit

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door.

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Participatory Museum Arts Artist

Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. Some museum pros have been puzzled by this. or to start their own.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop

Missed Connections and Matchmaking: A Case for the Desire to Socialize in Museums

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I've been thinking recently about the "why" behind encouraging social interactions among strangers in museums. After all, people visit museums in their own pods for a reason. There are two ways I think we can be using this in museums. First, I think we should support the proliferation of museum-based "I saw you's."

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Museum San Jose Participatory Social

Exhibits and Artifacts as Social Objects

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

How can you design museum spaces so that exhibits and artifacts become social objects--things that people want to share with each other? Facebook has a diversified object model--for some people, friend updates are the essential object, for others, it's virtual gifts. This is great news for museums. Turn invitations into gifts.

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Museum Social Participatory Flickr

Comment Cards 2.0: Three Tools to Check Out

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. These services could be a powerful, cheap alternative to comment cards--especially those that are focused towards making suggestions about the museum. Simple, understandable functionality. Focuses users on prioritizing ideas.

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Comment Tools Museum Conversation

Nonprofit Technology

Visiting the Smithsonian On Vacation

Guest Post: One Museum's Experiment with Threaded Comment Stations

Trending Sources

Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Participation through Gifting: Pass It On

A Birthday Request.

Navigation by Recommendation: Lessons Learned from a Little Experiment

Curate Your Own Membership: An Interview with the Whitney's Director of Membership

The Participatory Museum Process Part 3: My Experience

Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Foot in the Door: A Powerful Participatory Exhibit

Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Missed Connections and Matchmaking: A Case for the Desire to Socialize in Museums

Exhibits and Artifacts as Social Objects

Comment Cards 2.0: Three Tools to Check Out

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