Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I'd say that these techniques support audience development, repeat visitation, membership, maybe could even attract new kinds of donors. Our team focused this year on just three things: making the museum more comfortable, hosting new participatory events, and partnering wherever possible. but I didn't have numbers to back it up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

s interest to education and engage new audiences. Maybe he share some reflections in the comments - like for example - about the making of the video which is quite good in terms of production values, although not glossy campaign video. it takes advantage of the established Flickr community???s Not sure if this includes a cash prize.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In our quest to make the public areas of the museum more reflective of Santa Cruz culture, we moved these boards from a comprehensive display in the history gallery into a main stairwell, prominently visible from the lobby and throughout the building. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

So expect some live blogging, and reflections. In the afternoon, I did workshop and put the audience right on the cat walk with me. Giving the audience a chance to interact and discuss content in full groups, share pairs, and small groups allowed for some great stories to emerge from the group. My slides are here.

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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. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? I showed up at the IMA expecting innovation.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

The Washington Post covered the MAH's transformation as part of an article about museums engaging new audiences. She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The goals need to be front and center through the entire process, particularly when the measurement approach is more new or participatory and is designed to evolve over time. Who is your audience? I’m looking forward to being one of the public who gets to benefit from their courage and transparency.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

With the Virginia Department of Education’s I’m Determined initiative, we brought in key audiences at a discovery and design phase, much earlier than traditional audience testing would take place. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

It was terrific to have a packed room and a long, open conversation (we split the session into half presenting, half audience discussion) about these issues. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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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. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

TechCrunch Early Stage marks our first in-person event since the pandemic started, and we’re absolutely thrilled to be back in the same room as our audience and speakers (with full precautions taken, of course). Brands are participatory, so you create your own brand story at launch, but others define it as you grow.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. an exhibition produced with schoolchildren at the Wallace Collection in London, is a lovely example of co-creation that demonstrates the multiple benefits of inviting audience members to act as partners in arts organizations.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. Reflective time is important, especially when your work is hectic. It is this community--you--that I want to reflect a bit more on.

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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

JULY 17, 2012

These collaborators brought their own audiences along with their abilities, which introduced a lot of new people to the museum. But we tried never to create an event without partners or audiences who were invested in what we were making. focused on specific audiences and consistent time slots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

In today’s connected world, audience, employees, partners, and donors are talking on digital and social platforms and leaders have the opportunity to listen to the ideas and the concerns they are sharing about your social change issue or programs. There is also a science part of sharing – and that is how to share.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

The theme should clearly reflect the purpose of honoring and highlighting AAPI cultures. The theme should resonate with both the AAPI community and also general audiences. Spreading the Word: Promotion That Connects Reaching a broad and diverse audience is key for AAPI Heritage Month events. Avoid too much cultural jargon.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. They really cared about me.

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Google Research AI blog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The Playbook applies a human-centered design approach to documentation — from planning a transparency strategy and defining the audience to writing reader-centric summaries of complex datasets — to ensure that the usability and utility of the documented datasets are well understood.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

This was reflected again in a great encounter I had at the Walter's Art Museum later in the weekend, when a silver-haired, well-coiffed lady (the perfect image of a traditional museum goer) told me "I get so annoyed by how quiet museums are. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. Test out a "by visitors for visitors" version.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. They reflect the soul of the community and can be responsive to its unique interests and needs. These institutions have three additional reasons for homogeneity: The audience cycles frequently as families "age out." It's not their size or type or subject matter.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. Core Museum 2.0

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

But when they can back it up with evidence, that's more recognized by a more Western audience. But when they can back it up with evidence, that's more recognized by a more Western audience. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

When planning programs or events, we involve a combination of these groups to share and bridge audiences, bringing big, diverse crowds to new artists and ideas. New to the art form and the museum, we gave them a gift certificate to reflect over milkshakes at a local burger joint after the event. Large and small (or no) followings.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. Ann Beaulieu, a researcher associated with the Tropenmuseum reflected on discussion in the Wikipedia Loves Art / NL Flickr groups, commenting : the goal is to get photos of the museums’ collections onto Wikipedia.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. All of these have gone through a series of movements in the last 30 years reflecting cultural shifts and expectations.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I learned to appreciate the audience reach of a big institution while vastly preferring the diversity of work and lack of bureaucracy of a small one. Like slam poetry, blogging is writing for an immediate and hopefully vocal audience. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Tate's Mobile Blog is collecting audience input on the new building design at the Tate - via mobile phones to blog - or mob blogging. Read more of Jim Spadaccini's reflections. innovator.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

Once that group shifted to talking about project ideas and ways the museum could connect to this constituency, they were in a whole different mindset, and the suggestions they made reflected how we can meet community needs, not just market to a particular audience. We made people write things down constantly.

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