Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. How do we get the history of the poor?

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OCTOBER 13, 2010

Kate was selected from over 1500 applicants based on a one-minute video, an essay, and an application form. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

You can see or download my slides and you can watch the video of the talk. I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. Or you can read this condensed version of the talk.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

When you go onto a user-generated content site like YouTube, you don't just see a jumble of videos. Consider video kiosks where visitors can create their own short clips (a pet peeve of mine). On YouTube, you can share videos. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. In the same way that Web 2.0 Each Web 2.0 Core Museum 2.0

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MAY 28, 2014

I cut out from the meeting by myself to check out an exhibition called Open House, if These Walls Could Talk at the Minnesota History Center. We didn''t want people wandering through youtube videos, etc., The Innocence Project is a tremendously participatory project, with hundreds of volunteers around the country.

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MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. When you go onto a user-generated content site like YouTube, you don't just see a jumble of videos. Consider video kiosks where visitors can create their own short clips (a pet peeve of mine). On YouTube, you can share videos. Each Web 2.0

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