Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Keep A Running List of High Engagement Conversation Starters and Use Them Regularly. If you want engagement on social media channels, identify good conversation starters that are relevant to your audience, will ignite their passion or nostalgia about the subject matter. . — Billboard (@billboard) April 7, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Listening to and consulting the crowds: Actively listening to online conversations and openly asking for advice. We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory. What will be the nature of public participation and conversation?

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Network Report Philanthropy Empowerment 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. The Third C: Community.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. (I When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Make data-driven decisions only, don't trust your gut ever.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. Check out the other parts here. What did they do? Why did they do it?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

This is a big year for us in naming and evaluating our work. In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. PARTICIPATORY : Invites diverse community members to make meaningful contributions as co-creators, collaborators, and energized constituents.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Design to Invite Active Participation Participatory design can be one of the most effective vehicles for developing relationships, building social capital and engaging with community members in museum programs. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Public Research Participatory Museum 36

Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

For me, Downward Draw provided an unusual opportunity to examine the more casual end of the participatory spectrum. For years, I've used Forrester Research's five social media user categories --creators, critics, collectors, joiners, and spectators--as a guide when thinking about how to design participatory experiences in physical space.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Extra credit if you read the Our Museum evaluation (or its summary ) as well. The evaluation additionally called out some faulty assumptions in program design about leadership and staff continuity throughout the multi-year process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

One thing that stood out in our conversations is that the civic tech field is ready for a deeper dive on outcomes. It’s important to engage your full team, especially tech development staff, early in evaluation planning to ensure that systems are in place to capture the data you’ll need to track progress and assess results.

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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. This is particularly true when it comes to project evaluation. No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

In many cases, we ended up in long conversations with visitors, but that was always driven by their interest in telling us more about what they liked, why they were at the museum, etc. But a few people seemed nervous that we were trying to trick or evaluate them. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. What would you do?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

It could have been the attitude of the museum that supports participation and conversation. For a long time, I knew I cared deeply about designing from "me to we" --inviting visitors to form social connections through participatory experiences--but I couldn't express a clear reason why. I don't know what made it happen.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. We have some strategies for tackling this: convening diverse content advisors, incorporating anti-bias educational approaches in our design, developing participatory opportunities for visitors to connect past to present.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. The engagement in this part of the exhibit was very high.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. New voices energizing conversations. Nov 16 - 19. Apr 16 - 23.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. The next step in the process was for participants to evaluate some of the ideas using a 2×2 called the importance/difficulty grid. Participants were encouraged to focus on quantity of ideas and not to self-edit.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

The experiment is a multi-step activity in which you talk to strangers, get strangers talking to each other, and then build a social object that mediates conversation among strangers (more here ). You can participate in this experiment from anywhere in the world (I’ll be in Seattle at the zoo with a group of grad students).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. Paul has suggested that this metric—pointing—may be a valuable evaluation measure of a particular kind of engagement.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. This is the cocktail party, the hallway conversation, a structured time to meet and talk. Why are they doing this?

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Associations Studies Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

I wanted to open up conversation about how we judge the relative ethics of various sources of museum revenue--all of which have moral grey areas. On platforms with many participatory options, more people are more active. Last week on this blog, I tried an experiment. On Facebook, you can post, like, comment, add photos, play games.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They prove that the conversation is two-way. They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. But in them, I wrote something personal which put me on a conversational level. So when people ask, "Why don't more people comment?," it gets me excited.

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Comment Museum Blogger Reflection 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I was amazed by the number of conversations I had when I arrived at FreelanceCamp that went something like this: Me: Have you lived in Santa Cruz for a long time? Evaluate the outcome. Projects participatory museum. Audience Development These events bring in new audiences in a comfortable context. Other person: Oh yeah.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

We had this moment—we had one day where we were sitting in the room doing our conversation, and someone said that something had to be there even if there was no nomination, that we would manufacture a nomination. How are you evaluating the exhibition? Our plan is to have the summative evaluation done by the end of this year.

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Interview Minnesota Museum History 21

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2015

Now, the Brooklyn Museum is doing a major overhaul of their visitor experience--from lobby to galleries to mobile apps--in an effort to “ create a dynamic and responsive museum that fosters dialogue and sparks conversation between staff and all Museum visitors.” ASK is part of an overall effort to rethink the museum visitor experience.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For causes, this can range from increasing conversion rates by testing simple design tweaks, to nailing rapid response and raising $24M in a weekend. It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” Growth hacking is more of a mindset of experimentation than tactics and techniques. “Old Old power works like a currency.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Surveys, interviews, tracking studies, and exhibit evaluations are often isolated events, and the information gleaned is specific to particular projects. To form the basis for community, the comments should be publicly shared with other visitors so that they can present a dialogue, not a one-way conversation with the museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

--Elaine Heumann Gurian, The Importance of "And" Recently, I''ve been embroiled in local and national conversations about the relationship between active participation and quiet contemplation in museums. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. Staffing: We have 2.25

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

This poses a risk to ML system developers, and demands new model evaluation practices. We surveyed evaluation practices currently used by ML researchers and introduced improved evaluation standards in work addressing common ML pitfalls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Brand and reputation monitoring for a nonprofit or foundation. Disaster work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. On the web, anyone can evaluate the photographs in terms of aesthetic quality and relevance to the exhibition theme.

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sgEngage

APRIL 23, 2025

After a lot of research, conversations with community members, and writingand re-writingquestions, your application for funding is live. Internal Reviews: Building on a Culture of Collaboration Internal reviews involve staff, leadership, and trusted volunteers within your organization to evaluate grant applications. Great submissions.

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