Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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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. Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 Point out each area of disagreement and why in a brief, non-rantish, professional manner. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work. which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Stronger youth leagues led to stronger college teams led to stronger Olympic and professional performance. When we talk about embracing participatory experiences at non-professional levels, arts professionals often get worried that the best work will get drowned out in mediocrity.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Offering free workshops open to the public on participatory museum practice in Wellington (Nov 26), Christchurch (Nov 27), and Auckland (Dec 14). Leading internal workshops with Te Papa (Nov 25), the Powerhouse Museum (Dec 8-9) the State Library of Queensland (Dec 10-11), and the Auckland War Memorial Museum (Dec 15).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. I used to think museums and libraries should be third places, but this book opened my eyes to how far they are from being so.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

This is a big change for me--professionally and personally--and I'm thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to take on this position in the city I call home. The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. We'll need partners.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. Read about the Human Library in chapter 3 of The Participatory Museum by searching that term here.) Where would you like them to be?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ruth is a curator of pictorial collections for Puke Ariki, a museum/library/visitor center in the small city of New Plymouth, New Zealand. If you're doing something special and participatory, for goodness sakes, let me know. You want to get some projects going, but you're not in any particular position of power. Where do you start?

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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. The question is, "would you recommend this book to someone?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Here was have the professional development or career blog like Museum2.0 , and Im in Ur Museum Blogz that is written by an individual, not as part of the organization. Another theme of web2.o

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. On the back of the other, they wrote something they could offer someone else professionally.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

The event brought hundreds of hip, young professionals to the museum for lots of booze and partying. Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. Projects participatory museum. meetup for Elite Yelp! Does this mean copping out on our core values?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague. But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. Tags: professional development.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

For some MAH events, we collaborate with 120 individuals across the spectrum from amateurs to professionals, all of whom have very different expectations about compensation. Even if you can’t financially compensate your collaborators, show your collaborators how much you value them. Many times, we cannot pay our collaborators.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

and it's being requested by a haunted 23-year-old curator who uses his MySpace page as a professional homebase, but heck, who isn't up for a little ghoulish informality in the world of staff disclosure? As librarian Aaron Schmidt once commented, libraries are also ideal places for ARGs. are frigging cool indeed.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend). The evaluation of the first Turkish Living Library , held in 2007 at the Rock for Peace festival in Istanbul.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Her answer is what many a museum professional would want people to say. Museums are quality learning spaces, but so are libraries. Museum house things, but so do libraries. Tina isn’t even a plant, despite being a local member. It’s a place for people to explore. Shaelyn Amaio, a museum worker, agreed, as do I.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Image via State Library of Queensland (an institution I love). I wanted to build a bigger professional network, and this felt like a safe (and nerdy) way to start. I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. it opened doors to new professional opportunities.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What are the essential differences and similarities between libraries and museums?

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