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Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies?

Museum 2.0

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. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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

Museum 2.0

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. The result of those meetings and brainstorming sessions recently manifested itself in our Forum Gallery as an experimental photography project called Oh Snap! Your Take on Our Photographs. At its core, Oh Snap!

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Guest Post by Jasper Visser: Storytelling for Social Cohesion at Story House Belvédère

Museum 2.0

Story House Belvédère in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is a magical place. In its short existence (it opened in 2013), the place has made a name for itself as a successful community-driven, innovative cultural initiative. The place surpassed them. After the photography show, the team was encouraged to continue their work.

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. Dd is also testing low cost drones that locals can use and repair to perform aerial photography and surveying. Manage data: Dd tests hardware and storage devices in rugged conditions, and makes sure data is redundantly stored.

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Quick Hit: My Work with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

Museum 2.0

She published a book in 2010 titled "The Participatory Museum" that outlined the ideas of her blog -- and many of the world's big-city museums brought her in to help them figure out how to shake off the fusty image of museums and embrace modern times and modern audiences. We all know Santa Cruz is such a creative place," she said.

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My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC. We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more.

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

Museum 2.0

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. What is Click?

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