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But What About Quality?

Museum 2.0

Scene: a regional workshop on arts engagement. A funder is speaking with conviction about the fact that her foundation is focusing their arts grantmaking strategy on engagement. Engaging people actively in the arts. But just as its definition suggests, quality is itself a quality. EDUCATIONAL: can people learn from it?

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy.

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Feelings and Participation

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Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. In this field, we are definitely low on praise and even lower on profit. Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums.

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How Museum Hack Transforms Museum Tours: Interview with Dustin Growick

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They were “preaching the museum gospel” in NYC via alternative tours at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. I imagine that there are a lot more presumed barriers to break down at an art museum than a science museum.

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Want to Activate Public Space? We're Hiring. And Some Thoughts on Iteration and Temporary Positions

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It''s an exciting, intense, educational time. The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show. creative placemaking design Museum of Art and History programs public space' multiple times per week.

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Quick Hit: See you at AAM (and my Los Angeles must-do list)

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I will definitely be at the following: NAME party at the Velaslavasay Panorama on Sunday night. Hosting a session on Monday at 2pm on Design for Participation with participatory design gurus Kathleen McLean and Dan Spock, along with research extraordinaire Kris Morrissey and participatory art rockstar Mark Allen.