Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. Artists could choose to remain anonymous throughout the whole process or to have their names revealed in the final exhibition.

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Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

So we wanted a membership segmentation that reflected their individual needs. We heard loud and clear that these members really want to know more about the curatorial process and how the museum operates. So we offer them an exclusive discussion with curatorial staff to gain insights on the curatorial process.

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Interview Director Museum Arts 46

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague. But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. Tags: professional development.

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Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? Both resulting exhibitions featured visitor-submitted content, but each institution did so in a way that felt comfortable to their work processes and abilities. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 It invites people to play. Projects Core Museum 2.0

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Explore popular blog, searches and tags.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

I watched several visitors as they went through this process, which ends with your card being reproduced digitally, letter by letter, on the large projection wall in front of the kiosks. Some responses were more reflective, like "I will never forget." Tags: exhibition design usercontent.

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Pledge Museum Digital Indianapolis 23

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. It was the lengthy progressive response process that turned what is often a series of brief and banal comments into a rich archive of visitor experience.

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

MoMA has a great willingness to think deeply about these issues and address them over time and to the extent that we can through our collection and the curatorial process. This is why I always say that participatory tools are about relationships, not technology. Tags: web2.0 marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Conversation Museum Artist Minneapolis 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Another theme of web2.o

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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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Screencast Instruction Instructional Tag 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I was the project manager/curator for the exhibition, leading both the Second Life-based community exhibit design process and the real world translation of virtual exhibits. We shrunk the exhibit design process (concept to floor) from 2 years to five months. Tags: exhibition Tech Virtual.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Most free social networks include advertising that may not reflect museum mission. In this way, Tree of Promise takes a quick participatory in-museum experience—writing down a promise—and provides a supportive platform on which users can cultivate and substantiate that action. Tags: exhibition web2.0 freedom from advertising.

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Museum Social Network Case Study Discussion 20

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. Tags: storytelling Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Game Museum Arts Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

As she moves through the museum, she uses a web-based application to tag her favorite exhibits, or perhaps she texts a rating for each exhibit to SMS short codes posted at the bottom of each label. What "no-tech" visitor actions or interrelations reflect your participatory goals? What others should we consider?

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Customers' judgments made for more confident, streamlined strategy discussions: Before this, customers' ideas had fallen like snowflakes, enveloping the development process in an undifferentiated blanket of suggestions. This same process can also be applied to visitor-generated content.

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Museum Participatory Evaluation Chapter 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. Again, these rules reflect platform control, and when the control is too heavy-handed, users get annoyed and stay away. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. Ideas participatory museum usercontent.

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Authoring Platform Museum YouTube 42

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The artist, Sue Lawty, maintains a blog with her reflections on the project and occasionally celebrates particular contributions, but this blog is fairly contained within the project website and is not a major source of web links. Contributors can also optionally upload two additional photos: one of the beach and one of the work in process.

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Project Museum Artist Map 38

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. Again, these rules reflect platform control, and when the control is too heavy-handed, users get annoyed and stay away. Each Web 2.0

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Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44