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Techniques for Identifying and Amplifying Social Objects in Museums

Museum 2.0

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 4: Adventures in Self-Publishing

Museum 2.0

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. COST: Museum books tend to be expensive - because they are printed in small runs, the price for a 400-page paperback can be as high as $40. Why Self-Publish?

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Chase Giving Contest: Winners Announced Amidst Yet More Controversy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

on January 19 that many users who had not voted for Invisible Children had been tagged in a photo with an image reading "I Voted For Invisible Children," making it appear as though that user had voted for the group. Invisible Children has also been accused of fraud during the duration of the contest. Change.org reported.

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How Can You Attract New Audiences Without Alienating Your Base?

Museum 2.0

Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Two institutions I see making this "or" choice in exciting ways are the Brooklyn Museum and the Oakland Museum in California. You can't always do "and."

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12 Ways We Made our Santa Cruz Collects Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. We made a giant mobile for the center of the museum out of origami birds folded from visitor comments received in the past year.

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Whose Room is This?

Museum 2.0

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. Here's a chapter from Part 2 of the book, Outside In, that explores the differences in how insiders and outsiders perceive institutional change. Outsiders don’t want the room rearranged in their own image. Whose Room is This?

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New Book Club Starting: Groundswell

Museum 2.0

A few weeks ago, I participated in a Reach Advisors "museum conversation" with Web 2.0 The examples are primarily focused on large businesses with budgets much higher than those of museums, but the lessons learned are highly transferrable. Shouldn't we make it this easy to evangelize museum products? marketing.

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