Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Here’s just a few: Instructional. Open Space and Unconference Facilitation. Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Peer Learning / Coaching. Reflective Practice.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. Written instructions were not enough to compel them to do otherwise.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. The project never gets "full" and is always open to new contributors.

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OCTOBER 7, 2014

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide. It refers to the part of a participatory process where you know the problem or consensus won’t come easily.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. The MP3 experiment is an exercise in following instructions. He explains that you will have to follow his instructions to have “the most pleasant afternoon together.” It feels too "guided"--even when it opens doors to new kinds of experiences.

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APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. Or just keep your ears open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe. Then we opened up for discussion.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. SETUP Cut your instructions down to as little text as possible. Accolades are more inspiring than instructions.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The DAM is one of several large art museums that is embracing making in a big way—first, through their event-based programming and open art studios tied to temporary exhibitions, and now, through a 1,200 square foot studio in which visitors can do art projects tied to the permanent collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

6: Ask clarifying, open-ended questions when the other person pauses. These techniques are described in more detail in “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. ” Drawing People Out : After you listen and paraphrase, you ask open-ended questions to draw people out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. discoverable resources (does not mean repositories, but does mean openness). transparent open licensing, such as Creative Commons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

The session and moderator guidelines are designed to make the next a very interactive and participatory conference. It will be interesting to see if this achieved and there is a high likelihood since powerpoints (except for instructional sessions) have been banned. If you open your mouth at this conference, expect to be quoted.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

At that point, we opened three new locations: Sanger , Greenfield , and a new San Francisco workshop in the Excelsior neighborhood because the Mission has changed so dramatically. And then the fee for service is mostly school districts that contract with the Workshop for science enrichment/science instruction. Geography is key.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. The space is full of funky, period-ish furniture, everything touchable, everything open to sprawl on or hang out.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

And that makes it feel much more participatory. They also are an instructive model of the fusion of the old and the new, a gentle voiceprint of a world where new and traditional technologies come together without posturing or fear. They make radio a discussion, not a tutorial.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

Games are already highly participatory, but over the last few years game designers have been giving players more control over the gameworld and experience. But openness can be daunting, especially to casual gamers. Spore is a chemistry set without instructions, and only some of us are motivated to invent our own experiments.

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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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FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I hope to share some simple and fun ways to create "shoulder-to-shoulder" instructional media for the panel on Screencasting at NTC I'm doing. How do you create good instructional media in a reasonable amount of time and do a good enough job that helps people learn something by viewing it? and follow the instructions.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Every issue cycle was the same: visitors would watch the video in silence, and then as soon as the voting opened, a murmur of conversation would run through the room. The game could instruct people to share voting stations and to use a brief discussion to come to a consensus vote. The thing people liked was seeing the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. You can open an account on flickr for free (although if you get a professional account you can upload more photos) and start using it in minutes. Step 1: Find People. Hiring people.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. I have to feel like the post is open enough to my experience, that the blogger and the community of that blog would find my voice worthwhile, that I have some strong reaction I want to share, that I won't sound stupid. it gets me excited.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

I think we could open up more civil email-based communication, and create some simple communities, by coming to our visitors with more questions and fewer “opportunities.” If we open our ears, our museums and businesses can join these communities. Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. This post appears here in excerpted form; you can read the whole story here.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory? But what if the "traditional" arts experiences is a myth?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. This includes: Mary Joyce’s Digital Activism , Charlene Li’s Open Leadership , Jennifer Aaker’s DragonFly Effect , and Carol Cone’s Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding. Jessica Colaco who is the manager poses for a photo.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

It features three parts: very clear instructions on how to participate, a map of all of the contributions to date , and photos of the contributions. design participatory museum usercontent. Let's look at how each of these aspects--the ask, the activity, and the display--contribute to the overall success of the project.

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