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. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Big groups think too big and small groups think too small. Tags: climatechange energy sxsw events. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Low barrier to entry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 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 struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Ask the question several different ways to different groups of people.

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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. In the co-option model, the institution turns over a portion of its facilities and resources to support programs developed and implemented by external public groups.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

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. Shirky suggests that the most profound use of social media will come from groups trying new things. Tags: Books. Or, if that is the way you already work, tell me how.

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Participatory Lesson Social Media Review 95

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. There is another, surprising group that is much less likely to participate in dialogue with strangers: teenagers. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres.

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Teen Social Museum Participatory 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). They also tag and analyze responses.

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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). Tags: exhibition marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. I soon discovered the enormity of that group: there are dozens of guilds in Colorado dedicated to quilting alone. They’re tagging with yarn.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Can we be as brave and direct as these young women? But now is a great time to start being involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 Tags: Networked Nonprofit Organizational Culture. I’m often asked for practical advice on how to move past the fear. Opening up [.].

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. Tags: linklove. Early registration deadline is Nov.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

There are group and individual experiences. And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. The only exclusive group is the inactives--everyone else overlaps. Which exhibits allow them to aggregate selections from a group?

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Profile Audience Participatory Tools 26

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Networks, groups, applications, conversations, meet-ups, T-shirts, donations, volunteer events and political actions receive community wide support and in many cases are created by the community itself. As you go into your sessions today, I ask you to think not about how to get 1000 people into your Facebook groups.

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Create Green Social Media Structure 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

One of the things you have to do with user-generated content -- participatory media projects is show the work to encourage others to jump in. Unfortunately, it didn't have an option for "groups" - you can only pull photos based on tags or a user. So, I went to the pool and added a unique tag to the 17 photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general. Key is a participatory development process. Each type of mapping has specific benefits.

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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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. I blogged the invitation, I emailed friends, family, and a few colleagues, I skyped, and sent an invitation to join the flickr group to all my flickr contacts. 54 people joined the group.

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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. Later at the day, when most obvious ideas had been posted, these people sometimes changed to one of the 2 other groups explained below. Projects guestpost Book: The Participatory Museum.

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Museum Comment Experiment Participatory 34

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. Ask the question several different ways to different groups of people.

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Technique Design Question Develop 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

When it came to the second part of the workshop, the small groups set out and came back with some very clever ideas for making some of their favorite exhibitions more shareable. Read about the Human Library in chapter 3 of The Participatory Museum by searching that term here.) Tags: design participatory museum.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

The group was energetic and excited (and didn't even complain when I sent them on a photo scavenger hunt around the conference center), and you can access the materials and see some of their work on the We Are Media Wiki. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

The group was energetic and excited (and didn't even complain when I sent them on a photo scavenger hunt around the conference center), and you can access the materials and see some of their work on the We Are Media Wiki. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference.

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NTC Share Create Time 52

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, Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

set up any participatory elements and organize the opening, which occurred the following Friday or Saturday. That being said, each show (luckily) had about 30-40 artifacts/participants - though some were done in groups as well (mostly schools). I often had to introduce the participatory elements to get visitors to join in.

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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. Click any link above to see the video from the initial pitch and final report from each group.

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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. Side note: three times as many educators filled out surveys than any of the other groups.) Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. She's just the type of nonprofit tagger we're looking for over at the NP Tagovates Affinity Group at N-TEN.) Tell me about your experience with tagging. Why do you tag? A girl can dream can't she?)

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

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. You don't need to start with participatory design shooting for the deep discussion among strangers.

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Design Participatory Social Museum 21

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. It started with a request from a group of New York Wikimedians to the Brooklyn Museum. While these participants had done the hard work of capturing the images, it was up to the institutions to validate, tag, caption, and prepare them for Wikipedia's use.

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Wikipedia Arts Museum Images 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

sessions and I'm in the process of organizing a third, an affinity group meeting! 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. I read in the NTEN newsletter where there was call for Affinity Group Meetings.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences.

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Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Strangers, not intact groups, form the tightest bonds in third places. Third places are more participatory and offer fewer basic amenities than most cultural institutions provide. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place. Third places are defined by their accessibility. Less presentation of a point of view. What do you think?

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

You can participate in this experiment from anywhere in the world (I’ll be in Seattle at the zoo with a group of grad students). We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization. Tags: Quick Hits professional development.

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Experiment Seattle Indianapolis Denver 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

While for me meandering was mostly pleasurable, if I were there with a particular goal or a group of people, I would have been stressed out. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. The galleries weren't huge--most seemed to be under 2000 square feet--but they had poor sight lines from one to the next. What would you do?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. The experiment continues, and participants do stranger and stranger things—following people, playing freeze tag, taking pictures of each other, forming a giant dartboard. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences.

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