Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. There were no written instructions, just a mural that suggested what to do and labels that prompted people for their name and memory. He creates a visual representation of his story. What was it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. Here are the examples I showed you in the screencast, using the tag ??? For example, I???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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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. Check out the other parts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork. I designed the course to reflect lessons learned from my doctoral research. The blog focuses on instructional approaches, not on the technologies themselves.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

This was reflected again in a great encounter I had at the Walter's Art Museum later in the weekend, when a silver-haired, well-coiffed lady (the perfect image of a traditional museum goer) told me "I get so annoyed by how quiet museums are. The instruction becomes a kind of social object that gives people something to talk about.

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Experiment Lesson Learning Museum 44

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution. This post appears here in excerpted form; you can read the whole story here. Reassert the "forum"?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. An example? Another example.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. My second example is more personal and slightly embarrassing. Do these examples mean you should never use wikis? Here are two cases with related examples.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. There are some blogs that have much higher comment rates than these examples. But I'm not planning to shift all of my writing to this kind of personal self-reflection nor to the hyper-provocative content of the Zombies post. It's awesome.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Charlene and Josh relate listening to research, and since they focus on business examples, they are primarily talking about market research: the way a business learns what people think of their brand, their products, and their potential. Here are three examples of changes you could make: Change the language and presentation of comment cards.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Talk to the folks at Instructables. Projects participatory museum. meetup for Elite Yelp! Work with communities that relate to your content and reach desired audiences.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

For example, we look to external communities to guide understanding of when and why our evaluations fall short using participatory systems , which explicitly enable joint ownership of predictions and allow people to choose whether to disclose on sensitive topics. The 10 shades of the Monk Skin Tone Scale.

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