Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. I like this alternative to sticky dot voting! Next we did a series of small group exercises for participants to identify their stress triggers and reactions to stress. Here’s a quick video.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Here are a few design decisions I noticed that I think really add to the Odditoreum's success: They are only featuring a few objects. The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content. Projects design visitors. It's not self-important.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. 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 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

but I felt like I didn't have any alternative formats to draw on. Here are my three big takeaways from The Art of Gathering : Hosting is an exercise in courageous leadership. I didn't know how to kick off a productive conversation, make group decisions, or close a meeting with energy. The weird thing is that that wasn't true.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine bonfires, musical jam sessions, and iron chef exhibit design. The focus is on bringing in outside influencers--folks from the Burning Man festival to World Without Oil --to help museum experience designers recharge, connect, and explore new ways to do creative work in teams. Imagine making and playing together. Sounds good?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 In the last year, I have seen traditional museum attitudes about social media and community co-design go from "why should we care about this?" I started the Museum 2.0 static content delivery machines) to 2.0 and watched the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. These activities are not always grounds for participatory encounters.

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