Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. An example of an API is when you put a Bing or Google Map on your website.). The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 TechSoup was then called CompuMentor.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). The marketing team promoted the project with outreach to several road trip and roadside attraction-related websites and blogs, but the creative control of the project belonged to Chris and Lucy. What happened?

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. When I released it in March, I launched a simple website to host all the book content and to support discussion around it. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. Thanks in advance.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. participatory museum.

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Participatory Museum Rate YouTube 35

Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. Here's specifically what I'm looking for: Website redesign. Ever wanted to build a museum website from scratch? Please help us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2005

Via the 501-C3 Tech Club for Boston list, the Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA) has announced a new. website for listing free and open-source software coding. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 bounties: [link].

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Software Technorati Boston Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” Looking at the website for International Coalition of Sites of Conscience. We believe that strong connections should exist between museums and their communities.

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Museum Blogger Cleveland Missouri 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. Tags: inclusion comfort.

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Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

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

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Teen Social Museum Participatory 49

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 6, 2006

Quite a different take on participatory video than You Tube, CurrentTV is a cable and satellite TV network whose content is made up entirely of short pieces they call pods ; each is around 5 minutes in length. About a third of CurrentTV's programming is produced and uploaded by users of the CurrentTV website. Tags: video , tv

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. This wasn't a situation where you make a video and maybe you'll win the chance for it to be on the website or playing in the lobby. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 I loved this video by Tracie Farrell.

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Museum Contest Video Chicago 34

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. How can we improve on these models to becomes sites for participatory giving? Ideas participatory museum.

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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. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. Now that the Challenge is over, what are your big milestones and goals?

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

The ubiquitous “plan a visit” section of a museum website would be ridiculous and unnecessary for the sociable corner store or pub that patrons visit with little forethought. Third places are more participatory and offer fewer basic amenities than most cultural institutions provide. Third places rarely if ever present scheduled events.

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. You don't need to start with participatory design shooting for the deep discussion among strangers.

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Design Participatory Social Museum 21

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

We've created an alternative website to provide a more participatory version of the standard pre-conference informational site. Tags: Quick Hits professional development. Registration for C2 will close at the end of April. I hope you'll join us and add your own reasons soon!

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Collaboration Registration Brain Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. While these participants had done the hard work of capturing the images, it was up to the institutions to validate, tag, caption, and prepare them for Wikipedia's use. Tags: web2.0 Image verification was a Herculean effort. What do you think?

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Wikipedia Arts Museum Images 40

Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces. which will all be featured on a dedicated website. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. So how about it? Ready for a stranger April?

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Design Experiment Seattle Social 20

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. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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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. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. It's messy.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

According to their website : The Living Library works exactly like a normal library – readers come and borrow a 'book' for a limited period of time. On the Living Library website , you can also find sample catalogues, Book application forms, and marketing materials for download. What is the Living Library? well, you know.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The key is to make your contribution relevant, distinctive, and enticing enough to encourage visitors to "click through" your name to your website. I often end up exploring a blog or website I hadn't heard of before. marketing participatory museum. Tags: web2.0 There is a culture on Web 2.0

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Museum Technorati Boston YouTube 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. 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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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

Visitors can take their cards home and review their pledges (and see others' pledges) on the Take Action website , where you can also make pledges directly via the internet. The handwritten pledge is an intelligent starting point for creating merged digital/analog participatory experiences.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

I was surprised at how generic the conference appears on the VSA website. It will be interesting to see how people react to the conference and whether they feel valued or put upon in the participatory sessions. Tags: professional development. Are you headed to Houston? Drop me a line or a dance move anytime.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

I'd like to close with a few words from the "About Us" section of El Rio's website. Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. The Denver Community Museum was an entire institution in a little storefront. Imagine what a big museum could do with a little space. See the link to the left. And a final statement.

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Community Museum San Diego San Francisco 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

They thrive on secret websites, mysterious codes, and bizarre incidents. The initial "ask" on the website is specific: create a necklace and mail it to the Luce Center. The game website is clear. To start playing, check out the website , send Georgina a necklace, or contact the Soap Man. are frigging cool indeed.

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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. In advance, Daniel and Len had only to promote the concept, set up the website, and start soliciting and slotting in contributors.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. The Tech Virtual was launched as a two-platform system: a website and a Second Life island. Tags: exhibition Tech Virtual. or to start their own.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

What if you sent your members requests for their best and worst visit stories and then posted those stories publicly on your website? Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing participatory museum. Museum emails are almost always shouting. But what if you asked questions instead? Otherwise, it’s likely to fall on deaf ears.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

I first learned about this technique from Sam Kaner''s excellent book, Facilitator''s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. Tag Team the Facilitation. To me, this is analogous to the benefits of having multiple staff members engaged with community partners on participatory projects. Yes, it can be inefficient.

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Facilitation Professional Learning Participatory 36

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. They display the assets you've created and beyond that, nothing but a link to the institution's main website. I will not be using this webpage to dig deeper.

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Personal Museum Pledge San Jose 34

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Every time you produce an "object" on a social website like Flickr or YouTube, there are automatically-generated ways to share it. Gifting is a powerful participatory behavior. participatory museum. Tags: web2.0 The visitors involved shouldn't have to directly engage with each other to have a social experience.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

In Advice, there were many forms of talk-back: the post-its, the bathroom wall, the book, the phone, the website. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent. What advice do you have for ways we might advance the practice of exhibit design for social interaction?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. Ideascale prioritizing suggestions for specific programs A couple of weeks ago, I opened this Ideascale website to invite readers of this blog to suggest and vote on Museum 2.0 That is more likely to happen in the museum than online.

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