Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. This report is not an end-all; it is the opening for a conversation. Excellent case studies, especially from the performing arts sector.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

“What disappeared was the collegial conversations, the drinks on Friday evenings or making coffee together,” he told TechCrunch. “So D’Sa and his team, which includes co-founder David Zhao, developed a free, open source infrastructure for building and scaling real-time audio and video experiences, aka WebRTC, in applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0.

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door.

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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. People could take the pastports home or hang them, open to a preferred page, on a clothesline. We created a simple wheel with open-ended questions about identity and place, setting it in a lounge area.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I’ve had it with museums’ obsession with open-ended self-expression. When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. This immediately led to cross conversation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The theme of TEDxSantaCruz was "Open." It gave me a chance to really think about how we have been opening up our museum and what it means for our community. We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report opens with a look at current practices of using networks for citizen-centered social action that are promising for the future. Listening to and consulting the crowds: Actively listening to online conversations and openly asking for advice. What will be the nature of public participation and conversation?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. Get the game pieces here: Playing grid. Technology cards. Roles cards. You Examples.

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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. Or just keep your ears open. Engagement'

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Candid

AUGUST 20, 2024

What are the power dynamics behind that hesitancy, and how can we create space for conversations around this challenging topic? There have been innovations with respect to the grantmaking process and decision making, like participatory grantmaking and trust-based philanthropy. Yet, many funders are hesitant to fund endowments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. Next, Daniel Ben-Horin gave us the context of the TSG Network and hopes for the future that would emerge from the conversations over the next few days.

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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? Is this a problem? I think so.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Tags: participatory museum Quick Hits.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Participatory. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Participatory. I attended "In Code We Trust: Open Government Awesomeness" at SXSWi on Friday. One of my favorite moments of the session came when someone asked about the barriers to this kind of openness.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. To me, this is an example of how the aggregation of participatory practices fundamentally changes the role that an organization has in its community. It happens because people see an opening where there wasn't one before. The magic isn't by design.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. Leaders need to take time to include input from many stakeholders through surveys, focus groups, conversations, and meetings. Leaders need to balance these two elements and keep an open mind.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. 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. And that is the crossroads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

Opening up organizations is uncomfortable because it strikes at the heart of what so many organizational leaders were taught as their jobs — to protect the organization by controlling everything that happens inside and outside their walls. Opening up [.]. I’m often asked for practical advice on how to move past the fear.

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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. In contrast, the content review took place over several months and was open to as much or little as people wanted to do.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation. Anyone who uses the designated tag on Twitter automatically becomes a part of the ongoing global conversation on that topic of interest.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Stay Up to Date on Industry Trends From #FixtheFormto trust-based philanthropy , the conversations around giving continue to shape grantmaking. Even if your organization isn’t ready for a full participatory approach to your grantmaking, for example, understand the core tenets so you can address questions and get feedback from grantees.

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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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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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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Creative Power of Datamaking Focusing on the action of datamaking opens a world of possibilities for developing knowledge. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

.” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. When doing interactive sessions, you also have to give a nod to the introverts in the room who don’t always process well by having a conversation with someone they don’t know.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

And so I, you know, want to hear from you because I know that whatever is on your mind, you’re able to add to the conversation. But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning. Everything about my approach is about the wisdom in the room. Where are we not putting our energy?

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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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