Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

When you want visitors to spend a long time reflecting and sharing their thoughts, you need to design spaces for response that are comfortable and minimize distractions. In this case, we talked about placing a large physical map of recommendations in the lobby rather than at the "end" of the experience, where visitor feedback often lives.

Design 31

Design Goal Difference Platform 31

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. What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? It’s nice to have both.

Project 22

Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

So we wanted a membership segmentation that reflected their individual needs. It sounds like this will make lobby membership sales a lot more complicated to pitch. How do you plan to change your communication strategy once these segments are in place? and that solitary experience person might be 20 or they might be 80.

Interview 46

Interview Director Museum Arts 46

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

To some people, these events may sound like losers. The unconference got lots of locals "in the door" who otherwise hadn't considered the museum a useful or interesting place. First, many online communities (or communities of any kind) are looking for comfortable, low-cost places to meet. Projects participatory museum.

Museum 22

Museum Hosting Model Community 22

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

The resulting (real) exhibits are high-quality experiences that reflect a level of creativity that could not have resulted from our scant in-house exhibit development staff. The point of Second Life is to lower the barrier to build things--things that move, things that make sounds, things you can explore (like exhibits).

Virtual 21

Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Ghosts of a Chance is a great example of the museum leveraging a niche community (ARG-ers) to energize and provide seed content for participants who are new to participatory gaming. that the attendance on that day would be a real reflection of how the game went. are frigging cool indeed. Staff responded positively to "what if?"

Game 20

Game Museum Arts Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium is a place high school/junior high students go on field trips and make snarky videos at their teachers' behest (source: YouTube ). to make recreation decisions, reading blogs to form an impression, watching videos to get my feel for a place--these Web 2.0 Without good listening, these all sound like risks.

Museum 20

Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

I get that they are places. But places are sites for people to congregate paid for by people and planned by people. When the galleries are quiet, with my clipclop shoes the only sound, the museum feels dead. It’s a place for people to explore. It’s a place for people to explore. I wonder how people-centered it was.

Museum 36

Museum Place Life Ohio 36

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

Throw in the real-time nature of a museum visit, visitors' reticence to participate socially in the museum, and archaic data systems, and this may sound downright impossible. The more the agency to act on a shared link is placed on the pointee rather than the pointer, the less likely he or she is to follow through.

Social Network 22

Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

That sounds great. . So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. The things that I tell you will not stick unless you are able to reflect upon your own experience and go, “Ah, yes, I think this is what Julie is talking about. ” That reflection is really important. .

Community 77

Community Video Slides Survey 77

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

It also includes reflections from the exhibit team on the project. This might make Advice sound more like an educational program than an exhibit, or like a failure on the unfacilitated front. If visitors could write on post-its anywhere in the exhibit, why did they also need a place to scrawl with marker on an actual wall?

Advice 31

Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I don't know if that was their original plan or a reaction to our poor use of the wiki, but it certainly didn't reflect our supposed digital chops. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record. a conference).

Wiki 23

Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Many librarians cited Ray Oldenberg’s book The Great Good Place for its definition of “the third place”—not work/school, not home—where people can go to find community. Becoming “the third place” is vastly appealing and highly unrealistic given the current limits of our institutional support for communities.

Library 20

Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20