Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" And the next time someone questions the benefits of letting audiences actively participate, send them to Santa Cruz.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. We blatantly borrowed the brilliant technique the San Diego Museum of Natural History used to write labels based on visitors’ questions. Visitors have gone to town, writing both basic questions (“who made them?” “who how did they ride the plank?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. Of course that particular question will change, morph, and multiply based on the earlier session, but it will provide a rich framework for generating many useful and practical ideas.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. In front of each of those paintings, you could stamp your pastport, reflect on the artwork and the question, and share your story. design exhibition Museum of Art and History participatory museum usercontent'

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. I love this question. First, what do the right questions look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

But during the session on Learning in Public yesterday, with Beth Kanter, Co-Author of Networked Nonprofit, Jared Raynor from the TCC Group and Kathy Reich, from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I was reminded that all measurement needs to start with the most fundamental question – why measure? What do you hope to learn?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. I love this question. First, what do the right questions look like?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. But I left uneasy, grappling with questions that plagued me throughout the conference. How does their work relate to their physical institutions?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The best participatory projects are useful. Rather than just doing an activity, visitors should be able to contribute in a way that provides a valuable outcome for the institution and the wider museum audience. Like the best participatory projects , this postcard activity is constrained but not limiting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? I like to use a combined method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. How do they affect the relationship between those on the stage and the audience? Jeffrey Veen calls this person an ombudsman for the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” Sample survey.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The first of these reasons is practical.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2011

Last month, I learned about a fabulous, simple participatory experiment called “Case by Case” at the San Diego Museum of Natural History that uses visitor feedback to develop more effective object labels. Our exhibits group knocked around ideas for mechanisms of audience feedback. Questions and answers rolled in. Beiber Rules!”)

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

They invite people to participate: in design , prototyping , artifact interpretation , collections preparation , audience development. A strong participatory process is not a loosey-goosey, open the doors and do whatever strategy. And it leaves me with just one question. It''s serious. Everyone has something they need.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. The question is not "how do we make an exhibit so good that all want to create?" To answer these questions, we need to look at the range of who we serve. design participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? This isn't just a rhetorical question. The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. The scientists control the process, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

And to cut to the end of the story first, yes, we are creating a project together, yes, you can participate, and yes to whatever other questions this brings up in your head. Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

In GISKIN, Pandora and Drake aren’t museum people: they have no special knowledge; they ask the same questions the audience is asking and don’t always get answers. They leave LOTS of room for the audience to ask their own questions and fill in their own answers. If none, why the heck not?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Collaborative programs with diverse groups bring in a variety of visitors causing new audiences to interact and connect. The value of participatory experiences is epitomized in FIGMENT , a free, creative, participatory, non-profit, community art event.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

It’s been a wild and wonderful year—without question, my most challenging and stimulating yet. We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. It is incredibly rewarding work. I feel lucky.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? I like to use a combined method.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 18, 2019

” Depending on your target audience, your CTA can take a number of forms. Give clear participatory instructions. Proofread your description once you are done and make sure that you are available for any questions your supporters may have about the project.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

We''re more successful when we target particular communities or audiences and design experiences for them. In the past, I''ve subscribed to the theory that an organization should target many different groups and types of people to serve a constellation of specific audiences across diverse affinities, needs, and interests.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

It also complicates the question of what is acceptable in a museum. They are hosting performances, exhibitions that morph over time, artists who work in practice-based media, who break the fourth wall with the audience, who invite participation, and who deliberately disrupt museum conventions.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Who is the audience for Museum Hack? We at Museum Hack have gone back and forth about our target audience: is it people that don’t like museums that we want to convert, or people who want a more personal experience, or people who want an active museum experience? That’s a tough question. What is my “ask” of my audience?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

This is the question I've been toying with this week. For me, Downward Draw provided an unusual opportunity to examine the more casual end of the participatory spectrum. On the other hand, we don't set this kind of bar when it comes to counting audiences inside our walls. How many people participated? They asked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

But there is also the sense that whatever is lost in message control will be more than made up for by the opportunity to engage audiences in new ways, with greater programmatic impact. The topics include: Control and Transparency: How comfortable is the foundation with the participatory nature of Web 2.0 Build internal allies.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more? Here are three of my favorites.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2018

The talk is a 35-minute introduction to the OFBYFOR ALL framework, with a museum bent given the audience. So I don't just want audiences to enjoy the talk. It increased my sense that I needed the audience. I realized I was feeling the same fear and excitement that comes with any truly participatory project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

And, finally, with the rise of data and automated generation, leaders need to ask and answer questions with data, and faster. There is a 6 step framework in the book that begins with creating a plan that outlines the goal, audience, and platform. It is similar to a feedback survey, but the leader themselves is asking the questions.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

And it''s got me thinking about how we build energy and audience for the arts in this country. Barry Hessenius recently wrote a blog post questioning the theory that more art into the school day will increase and bolster future adult audiences for art experiences. And all of that led to more audience--at all levels of the game.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Negotiated agency" strikes me as a really useful framework in which to talk about visitor/audience participation in the arts. And so I humbly submit two questions to ask yourself when thinking about user participation: What is our negotiating stance in developing this relationship with participants? How can we make it a win-win?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. Two person audiences in the Little William Theater. No, this is not a reality TV show. Eric: Absolutely.

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