Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. Here's what I think is really strong about the report: Coordinated, succinct research findings supporting the rise of active arts engagement.

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Participatory Arts Report Case Study 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Note from Beth: My long-time colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director, Social Sector Accelerator, shares some thoughts about nonprofit capacity building programs based on extensive research. In all our research, we found 3 challenges to making sense of the evidence: Capacity Building Divorced from Results.

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Results Program Build Help 94

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

In this post, she writes about Experimonth, an intriguing set of crowd-sourced projects that connect scientists with research participants in surprising ways. That is to say, we engaged in each Experimonth for the pure enjoyment of it, rather than any real serious or practical purpose. Thus began a year of play.

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. 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,

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

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 strategy is: make it work really well, research what works and doesn't, and share the design lessons with the world. My model is the shining star. Maybe not. His is the virus. His is the virus.

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Action Ideas St. Louis Museum 31

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. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Slides Process Video Open 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Facilitator bits. They feel like things are getting "decided" before they can really think things through.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Can you tell me what your doctoral research focused on? The research was conducted entirely online, using a multi-media platform and over Internet. whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork.

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Arts Community Online Intergenerational 50

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. All of this real-world experience is grounded in rigorous research and is taught by successful marketers who face your same challenges. Annual Conference for Development Researchers.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. It was like getting paid to process the day in a lovely setting. In 2004, Anna was the Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the International Spy Museum.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

And for most institutions there's no practical solution to the problem. They model impersonal, businesslike relationships between the institution and the people who care about it the most. We know from copious audience research that the social experience is one of the most cited reasons that people visit and enjoy museums.

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Relationship Museum Game Personal 46

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I''m appreciative of the time Ellen Gamerman spent researching the article. Yes, community involvement is at the heart of our shifted, successful business model. I meet them doing research in the archives, collaborating on cultural festivals, and contributing stories to exhibitions. What is the metaphor for participatory arts?

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Journal Participatory Museum Community 54

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. Frequently, we get stuck on developing participatory projects or events that serve as many people as possible.

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Artist Museum Project Public 39

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

How many exhibit evaluations happen after opening, with no significant money allotted to make changes that arise from research? And more importantly, how can these strategies be sustainable parts of our practice instead of one-time gimmicks or marketing campaigns? They talk about balancing humility and creativity in our practice.

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Museum Participatory Evaluation Chapter 20

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I could practically teaching this class. We tell our colleagues, other folks have mentors, or we do some research about it. I’ve got 1:00 Eastern.

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Community Video Slides Survey 76

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. The convenors set up a lovely wiki and gave us specific instructions to answer research questions posed on a series of pages. On March 22, they released the wiki.

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Foundations are in the midst of a sudden and unexpected upheaval of long-held grantmaking practices. The practice of funding has traditionally been lopsided in favor of those doing the granting. On the surface this feels reasonable, but in practice significant issues and challenges emerge.

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Change Proposal Grant Application 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

We share an abiding interest in exploring the community-enhancing roles of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs), especially in terms of the practice of hospitality and service within the institution. It is crucial that LAMs be considered public civic spaces, but Oldenburg's model leaves a lot to be desired. In the 1930s, W.E.

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Place Discussion Library Museum 30

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change.

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Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

Why and how museums could develop their co-creative practice with the public, building on ideas from the performing arts and other non-museum organisations (free to download). When an institution becomes wholly participatory, those distinctions often erode. That's not to say these structures came easy. The work requires flexibility.

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Arts Participatory Museum Artist 22