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Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies?

Museum 2.0

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Where are the friendly, open, participatory experiences you came for?

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site. As does Indianapolis Museum of Art blog. on Facebook.

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Quick Hit: Upcoming Experiments and Workshops

Museum 2.0

Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. I encourage you to take part and document your triumphs and spectacular failures on this site. I will aggregate the results for later discussion on the blog. If you can’t attend the conference, you can read my paper on this topic and play along at home.

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Mixing Digital and Physical: The Holocaust Museum's Handwritten Pledge Wall

Museum 2.0

I recently visited the Power of Children exhibition at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, which also features a pledge activity at a large installation called the Tree of Promise. The handwritten pledge is an intelligent starting point for creating merged digital/analog participatory experiences.

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Does Your Museum Need its Own Social Network? Case Study and Discussion

Museum 2.0

For example, consider Tree of Promise , a private social network created and managed by the Indianapolis Children's Museum. In this way, Tree of Promise takes a quick participatory in-museum experience—writing down a promise—and provides a supportive platform on which users can cultivate and substantiate that action.

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