Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

What role does “promoting human happiness” play in the mission statements and actions of museums? That’s the question I’m pondering thanks to Jane McGonigal and the Center for the Future of Museums (CFM). Earlier today, the CFM offered a free webcast of Jane McGonigal’s talk on gaming, happiness, and museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals. Click to see larger version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? I wish I had done a structured creative thinking exercise to get people comfortable. I’ve written about these techniques here ).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. The Museum 2.0 In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. If there are museum objects and visitors'' objects on display together, all should be afforded the same level of exhibit design, labels, etc. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2016

We believe that partnerships build a stronger museum and a stronger community. The tools and techniques that worked for us when we were seven people in a room don't work for twenty. Like most museums and nonprofits, we have a donor database. The reality is that growth has meant more structure. SALESFORCE. Now, I own it.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 4, 2015

If people on the street are talking about X, the museum should be talking about X too. I used to work at The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. Our mandate was to be the museum of Silicon Valley--not of its material history, but its pulse of innovation. Interpretative techniques. What's trending. It is just now.

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Content San Jose Museum Miami 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project. Rabinowitz commented that "as a 40-year veteran of history museum interpretation, I can say that I never learned so much from and about visitors."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

About three months ago Beth Kanter wrote about the Crowdsourcing of Vision at the Smithsonian Museum. I've been keeping a careful eye out for thoughtful comments that could turn into guest posts. That's where this post about crowdsourcing came out of it!

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Aggregator Model Leadership Method 82

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. 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.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Measuring the Networked Nonprofit describes techniques for measuring engagement and networks and I’ll be presenting some of that material. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Some staff are wearying of the messiness, noise, and lack of structure in their new face. No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. Yes, Agents of Change was a transformative experience. First, the newcomer.

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Experiment Create Museum Amazon 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. Can museums afford to indulge in this kind of fantasy? But incorporating good environmental storytelling techniques from the game world doesn't mean you have to put on mouse ears (or a trenchcoat).

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Game Storytelling Lesson Museum 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

There was no initial design, no graphics, and no idea of where the teen' work would fit into an overall structure. We were hasty experimenters, and when one technique didn't work, we would alter it, much to the perplexion of the volunteers involved. Find a way to control the structure, even if it's artificial.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Yeah, the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. I’ve been to the Whaling Museum in New Bedford. How do you structure your database? I look at how is it structured, the big internal structure. So there is a way to structure your database so that it is organized and consistent. That’s right. Robin: Yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowd voting has been used in Cause Marketing. There has been an explosion of “Vote for Me&# contests that have become contests in techniques for vote getting and inspired cause fatigue at worst. How to structure crowd sourced philanthropy based on voting or feedback depends on the outcomes of the project, a theory of change.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2011

The longer I consult with museums and cultural institutions, the more time I spend peering into people's eyes, wondering: do folks here feel able to innovate? Others are "how" innovators--using unusual techniques to accomplish traditional goals. Is this a place where staff members are comfortable taking risks?

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Discussion Minnesota Phoenix Structure 39

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

There are lots of things visitors can’t do in museums. But what about the things that museum professionals can’t (or feel they can’t) do? This week at the ASTC conference, Kathy McLean, Tom Rockwell, Eric Siegel and I presented a session called “You Can’t Do That in Museums!” And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2016

While the trip was a rich and deep experience, I using this post to reflect on the instructional design of the exercises and small group facilitation techniques. The design included the following structure to allow for full group and small group dialogue, interaction, and exercises. Exercise #1: Herding Sheep.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

This interest stems back to the very beginning of the Museum 2.0 Since 2006, I've heard terms like "wikimuseum" and "YouTube museum" spring from the mouths of many well-meaning, interested museum directors and leaders, but I haven't seen enough concerted work to define what these metaphors really mean and how they can be used.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

I first learned about this technique from Sam Kaner''s excellent book, Facilitator''s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. Build structures to support meeting each other. He calls this dip the "messy middle" of a meeting, when a group has to shift from divergent to convergent thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

s why: (1) The folder structure of your favorites list is not always flexible enough to allow for easy cross referencing. (2) Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques for smaller nonprofits to easily share their information resources. Tagging in Art Museums. 2) Bookmarks can???t 3) Links can get lost in email. (4)

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Why do you care about and or work in museums? I don't work in museums because I love them. When I visit a new city, I don't clamor to visit museums. And while I'll visit museums out of professional (and occasionally personal) interest, I don't do it because of a deep emotional connection. And check out the comments.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

"How often do we hear colleagues from museums and galleries stating as their fundamental reason for working co-creatively with audiences that they want to make a great piece of museum work, rather than primarily for reasons of social inclusion or democracy?"

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Arts Participatory Museum Artist 22

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2010

A simple example: the cocktail party The best place to start conceptualizing structures for social participation is via familiar social experiences. Many people engage directly with strangers on stage five to discuss images, the stories behind photos, and photographic technique. Ideas participatory museum.

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