NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. There were 14 great teams pitching their Projects at the Conference, but only 3 voted as prize winners. VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. There were many excellent ideas (check out the Project Gallery !)

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania. Challenges and issues.

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Press Ghana Tanzania Zimbabwe 49

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. For about half an hour, hundreds of people play together, silently, as directed by disembodied voices inside their headphones. The voice tells you what to do –stand up, shake hands, play Twister, make silly shapes—and you do it.

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Instruction Instructional Nicaragua Experiment 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Our archeology did not aim to uncover the hidden voice of my grandmother, but instead to begin an ongoing practice of recreation. Our most recent model for exploring outreach possibilities surrounded the recently commissioned project of textile artist Frau Fiber.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

At this conference in 2005, the backchannel was projected on the screen behind the speaker. I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. Tags: backchannel.

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Reflection Conference Resource Arts 69

Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored.

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Museum Work Social Media History 21

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! This spanned all the projects. how do you set clear criteria for participation when the project is experimental and ever-changing?

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

There is no dissonance between the museum’s formal voice and laminate and the visitors’ pens and paper. A large wall featured a slowly undulating, multi-colored projection passing by, like the visual aftermath of an accident in a lava lamp factory. Projects design participatory museum. We’re all together, man.

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Denver Museum Arts Remix 21

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. Design firms' projects often have a common look across different cities and institutions. Small museums, which are most likely to cultivate local, distinctive voice and approaches, often have an inferiority complex. Tags: children's museums design business models.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41

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. In other words, there's a lot going on.

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Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

People already know how to leave voice and text messages and don't have to grapple with a comment system to do so. This was surprising given that participants were required to do a lot more to post a comment on the voicethread than on the blog: they had to register an account, have a microphone, and record their voice.

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Museum Audio Participatory Phone 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Nina observes that the following makes this project really special: It is 100% community-based. Everyone is a Curator.

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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. But there were 52 people who spent several hours working on the project as content reviewers or copy-editors.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 32

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. It showcases diverse voices. The project's originators call it "a crowdsourced journal of 2010."

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Participatory Project Museum Journal 34

Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. I couldn't drop the project for months or abandon it entirely. Check out the other parts here. But that didn't matter.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

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. By simplifying and personalizing the design technique used for the institutional voice, visitors felt like they were part of a natural conversation with the institution.

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

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. That's ok for a community project, but very frustrating (and for some, blatantly dishonest) in a contest. Level the playing field or tip it in their favor.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Next week, part 2 will focus on participants' experiences.

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Participatory Museum Statistics Process 21

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Yes, the Exploratorium is also present in these arenas as a "talker" (more on that next week), but it is just one voice among thousands. Surveys, interviews, tracking studies, and exhibit evaluations are often isolated events, and the information gleaned is specific to particular projects. Otherwise, it’s likely to fall on deaf ears.

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

The project was a chaotic experiment in several ways, and because things kept changing, the community had to keep relying on me as their sole source of information about how things would move forward. While my energy and enthusiasm as a community leader held the group together, once I left at the end of my project, the community fell apart.

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Community Management Museum Aggregator 40

Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

After listening to this clip a few times, I wondered: what if museums dropped the authoritative voice, the cultural voice, the friendly teacher voice, and adopted a novice voice? I love the Radiolab experience, but I wonder how much the success of the "novice voice" is contingent on the context of conversation.

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Conversation Arts Museum Voice 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Single voices represented on single labels is not scalable. Most museum projects that allow visitors to create content only allow for the most basic of prioritization. Tags: web2.0 Each Web 2.0

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Authoring Platform Museum YouTube 42

Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2008

Is it just an exercise in giving visitors a fake voice? This is one of the things that makes the PostSecret project so successful--the fact that Frank Warren (and millions of others) REALLY care about random folks' answer to the question: what is a secret you have never told anyone? A leading voice in declarative labels can hide.

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Question Museum Participatory Voice 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I didn't feel supported pursuing intrinsically motivated projects. I went to a project-based engineering college where I could set my own curriculum and graduated early. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. BUT we won't acknowledge their voices and their meaning.

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Museum Alternative Education University 29

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments and add your own voice to the debate. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience. It was a collaborative library/design/art/community-building project.

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Place Discussion Library Museum 30

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Single voices represented on single labels is not scalable. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books.

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Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44

Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

If a strategy doesn't improve your ability to deliver high-quality projects, why pursue it? In some museums, there's friction between educational staff who may run radically co-creative projects and others who feel that those projects are secondary to the "serious" work of the institution.

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Arts Participatory Museum Artist 22

Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

But there are other times when the message isn't simple, and in those cases, visitor voices can help strategically shape multi-dimensional exhibitions. It can be uncomfortable or downright limiting to declare yourself and your single voice the authority on a complex or multi-faceted topic. How did this project get started?

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Interview Minnesota Museum History 21