Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, Citizen journalism.

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Netsquared Wikipedia San Francisco Iraq 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. On many levels, The Tech Virtual experiment was a success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Tags: ROI. Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. Why do people pay a dollar to send each other virtual hot dogs and pinatas via Facebook? Collect the e-card.

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Gift Participatory Museum Model 23

Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization. Tags: Quick Hits professional development.

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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! In both MN150 and Tech Virtual, it led to us being more dynamic and flexible in our production of exhibits. This has both positive and negative outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. I followed the profile to the blog and discovered Brian Lamb's Abject Learning. It wasn't quite right for the page I ended up assembling.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

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. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences. Tags: exhibition web2.0 Projects.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I kept sneaking glances at his screen, watching it fill with words like “Web 2.0,” “virtual worlds,” and pictures of kids tuning out teachers and tuning in their cellphones. As other museums have entered the "participatory learning" conversation, children's museums have not moved on to a new generation of audience and principles.

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

I enjoyed listening to it (virtually, not at the museum). The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 Seb concluded by asking if you could make an entirely fictitious museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

The Signtific game does this virtually by encouraging players to respond to each other by "following up" on other players' entries. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives. What design techniques do you use to create successful visitor dialogue experiences?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

We need to stop focusing on protecting our stuff and start creating new physical analogs to these virtual tools—platforms for people to engage with our content on their own terms. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion. Tags: Core Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By 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. Tags: professional development. There is funding.

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Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

of "clicking through" to see where a commenter hangs his or her virtual hat. marketing participatory museum. Tags: web2.0 And make sure that you are linking back to your own site/blog/YouTube channel. There is a culture on Web 2.0 I often end up exploring a blog or website I hadn't heard of before.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. Projects participatory museum. Tags: web2.0 I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person.

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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. They run a virtual newspaper written by a reporter they've never met, who is replaced every single day. I promise a very different window into my life.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

On MySpace, you are protected somewhat by the fact that you interact via a virtual rather than real identity. Tags: participatory museum visitors. By the standard set by a culture that judges MySpace as dangerous, perhaps these in-person interactions are even MORE dangerous.

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

This exhibition uses RFID tags to allow visitors to save their work throughout the space--something that many institutions have been experimenting with for almost ten years now. We swiped our RFID tags all over the Brain exhibition to save our actions, scores, and preferences. This makes for a very low-engagement post-visit experience.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Facebook has a diversified object model--for some people, friend updates are the essential object, for others, it's virtual gifts. Gifting is a powerful participatory behavior. participatory museum. Tags: web2.0 anything that will inspire that potential visitor to go to the museum to "cash in" his or her gift.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

When I was at The Tech Museum developing and leading the Tech Virtual community, I tried to involve a wide range of staff members in the online exhibit development community, so that we could spread out the interactions and relationships built between amateurs and experts. Projects participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Community Management Museum Aggregator 40

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. The ideas can be tagged and grouped into categories, and can be browsed in time order, by most popular, or by category. They are spending more virtual time with the brand, and with real people associated with it.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What would your institution be in a world where you have more non-English-speaking (real and virtual) visitors than English speakers? The most upsetting moment of the meeting for me was when some participants expressed a willful disregard and derision for participatory scholarship on sites like Wikipedia. Let’s change that.

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