Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." 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 21, 2011

Recently, I've been doing a lot of workshops with cultural professionals around the question of developing authentic relationships between institutions and visitors. There's a fundamental strangeness to the concept of a relationship between a human and an organization. I expect you'll remember some basic things about me--say, my name.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." 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 22, 2013

I''ve followed Wright''s work for years because of his unique perspective on the potential for game-players to be game-makers - in other words, to co-create the gaming experience. Negotiation" implies a respectful relationship between institution (or artist) and user. How will participants seek to assert their agency in the experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. It is important to have a face-to-face meeting to get started and most importantly to build relationships and trust. This is especially important when you are working cross-culturally.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

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. THINGS THAT SURPRISE ME: The central role of event-driven experiences. Instead, we find that they do return—for more events.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. That required more space.

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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

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. The repeat experience is progressively familiar, so I feel like I am entering a space with known faces. We see it on TV.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Is it a conversation? In almost all cases, museums assure me that they want to be in conversation, that they want to be responsive, that they want to “really hear” what people think. In one case, the institution jumped into the conversation and converted an ugly situation into a positive community outcome.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Ever wish for a low-cost, energizing professional development experience where you can work intensely with diverse colleagues in a risk-tolerant environment? day event at which participants work in teams with pre-selected permanent collection objects to create an exhibition full of intriguing, unusual, risky experiences.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Better to establish a relationship with a leader in their community--someone with whom you are building reciprocal value--and ask them to help be your ambassador. You should have a credible and understandable offer, alongside your ask of their time, experience, and expertise. to get the conversation started. Child care.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Once we started the conversation, the outpouring of excitement was remarkable. exhibition guestpost inclusion participatory museum'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Tweet conversations about you. Networks, groups, applications, conversations, meet-ups, T-shirts, donations, volunteer events and political actions receive community wide support and in many cases are created by the community itself. My experience has informed me over and over again that you will fail. Get out now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

For decades, this has been the reality of their lives, and they strongly believe that the Western world and its citizens have a similarly controlling relationship between individuals and government.” ” It also brings up issues about the r ole of social media and a connected society for delicate diplomacy.

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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. At the same time, I''m aware that only a tiny percentage of readers have actively pursued relationships with me and other Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. Three years later, we''re out of turnaround and into growth mode.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Going to MAH and seeing the LOVE exhibition on First Friday was a wonderful experience. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. Pull up an armchair for a tour of our participatory hits, misses, and related discoveries.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

They edit the conversations into radio shows, which are then made available as a podcast (you can listen to episode featuring me, #89: Museum Secrets, here ). The conversations are often long--20 minutes or more--and Mercedes and Zachary only get to the question at the end of a meandering conversation with the guest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

In 2005, at the Les Blogs conference in Paris, there was a flap about the backchannel because the conversation crossed a line. . How do they affect the relationship between those on the stage and the audience? How can the backchannel enhance our attentiveness and learning ? What does this intermediation of dialogues mean?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. That required more space.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

He noted that many institutions I talk about that successfully foster personal relationships with visitors are small places. The sense of intimacy that comes with the relationships you can form in a small place is hard to match in a large one. This got me thinking about the relationship between intimacy and complicity.

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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.”. How might we experiment with organizational restructuring or deconstructing? A series of dinner parties would create space to bridge the personal and professional, build new relationships, and have conversations that we can’t have in other settings.

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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. Between the giant squid brainstorming and experimentation, I gave a talk to the larger Smithsonian Institution about multi-platform museum experiences. It's like an organizational game of madlibs.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

It's an experiment that merges two of my greatest interests: finding novel, easy ways for visitors to contribute content to museums finding questions that draw such compelling responses that random peoples' answers would be worth browsing To participate, all you need is a phone. Tags: participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

Thank you to Susan Spero and all the folks at JFKU and Left Coast Press for starting a highly stimulating conversation this weekend at the colloquium on Museums and Civic Discourse. When I think of the times I have experienced civic discourse in a positive way, it was because of a personal relationship built through a common interest.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. The experience is entirely about you the speller, you the famous dictator identifier, you the sit back and laugh at your friends-er. But focus on the participants isn't the only, or even the most important, thing bar experiences like this offer.

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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.

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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. I'm writing to learn, and hopefully to connect with you through that experience. it gets me excited.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. Consider the experience of the Computer History Museum and their Yelp! several years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Monumental Fundraising Conference is a two-day event where you will exchange innovative marketing and fundraising ideas, generate insightful solutions and think creatively to help you make the relationship with your donors even stronger. Fundraising is all about creating trust and building relationships. Feb 22 - 24. Foundations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. Second, the relationship between weak and strong ties is one of complementarity and support, not one of opposition.

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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. 11/28/2016.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We started our conversation by David explaining what Spot.us The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. On July 9, 2009 I interviewed David about Spot.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

By selling and bringing soup, Not For Sale develops relationships with the women. Nonprofit-Share is making it easy for social sector professionals to find each other, learn from one another, form mutually beneficial relationships and come together to better serve local communities and build a more effective nonprofit sector.

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