Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Arts Museum Artist Tucson 45

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

After her husband’s sudden death in 1955, and with three children to raise, my grandmother grew the store, purchasing the ends of fabric bolts and ribbons from local mills, secondhand clothing, toys, dishwares, books, and an assortment of knickknacks to sell. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement.

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Museum Photo Policy Open 54

Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

It's a discussion of bike and pop culture and socializing the good with these Interweb tools” 10. Across the country, geeks inside and outside of government are developing a new model for a participatory and transparent Federal, State and Municipal governments. But it wasn't here to enterain, no. Karaoke came to unite us in song.

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Conference Government Social Media Influence 38

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.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

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. It showcases diverse voices. I think of 3six5 as a coffee table book that is being written one day at a time.

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Participatory Project Museum Journal 34

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans. Where are we not putting our energy?

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 125

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Jeremy Heimans, co-author with Henry Timms of the best-selling book “New Power,” recently spoke with Blackbaud’s Rachel Hutchisson at bbcon 2018 for a recording of The sgENGAGE Podcast. Showing voice. And we tell a story in the book of a video game called Star Citizen and it’s really an allegory for our time.

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Social Game Model Fun 22

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. That facilitator has to be able to manage many different personalities, the different cultures, different experiences. And there was a lot of cultural misunderstandings, something very basic. How do we do this well?

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Community Video Slides Survey 81

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Woman reading a book on a beached rowboat, 1925. I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. You gave me confidence, guidance, and stories for my books. You gave me support as I struggled to lead a museum through a participatory rebirth.

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Museum Reflection Participatory Attitude 27

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

This is the fifth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Every Tuesday in June, this blog is featuring a guest post examining some aspect of the book. You can join the conversation in the blog comments and add your own voice to the debate. In the 1930s, W.E.

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Place Discussion Library Museum 30

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. The contemporary culture of user-generated content is bringing self-directed learning to the forefront, but that doesn't mean there's money or traditional rewards to be found there. BUT we won't acknowledge their voices and their meaning.

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Museum Alternative Education University 29

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Single voices represented on single labels is not scalable. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books.

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Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44