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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above).

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Guest Post: Oh Snap! Experimenting with Open Authority in the Gallery

Museum 2.0

Visitor-contributed photos surround a collection piece in Carnegie Museum of Art's Oh Snap! so I was intrigued when I heard about a recent success from Jeffrey Inscho, Web and Digital Media Manager at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. is a project that lets real-world and virtual visitors share their work in our gallery.

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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. Instead, I found a standard art museum. Impersonal guards.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Simply plug in your nonprofits’s website URL and you can seen cached versions of your site going back to 1996. oneforty :: oneforty.com.

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is ironic is that the WDM has not learned to apply what they presumably have learned from their other campaigns into virtual space. I stopped by his location on enroute to the Museums and Second Life meeting dropped some lindens in his donation box. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

Museum 2.0

I've added a fourth model to this citizen science typology, one may be more appropriate to facilities like museums than to scientific organizations: co-option. Visitors co-opt institutional facilities every day for their own agendas, whether to impress a date, bond with family, or work on their photography skills.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. What is Click? They kept the interface simple. the Strategic Implications!

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