Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Ken is a game designer and writer who develops narrative, collaborative augmented reality experiences about serious issues. Now, that game, GISKIN ANOMALY , is live. GISKIN ANOMALY is a “historical fiction” game I created for Rich Cherry and the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. What’s the opposite of Voicemail Hell? Mysterious!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

We have to find ways to use games not to escape reality, but to re-engage with reality, and that???s t have an inevitable consequence ; it???s s based on the choices we make on the ground, within our own societies, for how we use these technologies. s the exicting thing about the work of Global Kids ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

If you look at the replies , you can see that it also got about 30 @replies, including replies where participants played the game. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. .” This tweet got 71 Retweets and 65 favorites. verena_fidelia) April 4, 2014.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. European museum visitors appear more comfortable engaging in interpersonal dialogue and social games with strangers. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere. For years, I''ve heard some version of this refrain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Note from Beth: I went to my first Games for Change Festival ten years ago, in 2005 and have been a fan and supporter ever since. Games — both digital and analog — provide a great opportunity for inviting players to interact with a real-world causes and societal challenges. Games for a New Climate.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Virtual Game Night. Games are fun. Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . You can use a virtual event platform with a meeting room option to host multiple games at the same time. Do you know what is fun?

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Unleash Crowdfunding Potential: Transform Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Game In the challenging nonprofit community, smaller organizations often struggle with securing adequate funds to execute their mission.

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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

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising. One of the newer entries into the video hosting game is Revver. I don't know what I mean yet. I contributed. I love retro film.).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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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 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Early this month, I got the chance to hear legendary game designer Will Wright (Sim City) give a talk. 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. Both games have rules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

The article provides a good primer and illustrates various genres of machinima created in different gaming environments. The article describes how the genre is linked to participatory/DIY culture. I'm glad that I didn't post these right away because in a completely unrelated circumstance, I ran into Robin Good's piece on Machinima.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

What role do video games, cell phones and social networking websites play in the development of today's children? Henry Jenkins , Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. and Catherine T.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. This label set up a casual game for me: look for orange, do the thing. DON’T make the participatory activity too narrow or difficult. We talked afterwards.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. Have a game plan for what you'll do with past visitors' contributions as you prune to make room for more.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

They're playing video games. We assume that adults don't want to do crafts or play games--that they want the "serious" stuff. There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. They're going to trivia night. And herein lies the self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. It could be a game show. Let me be frank. We have no money. We cannot pay you in dollars. Late night programming. This one is wide open.

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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. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

It''s resulted in some of my favorite work ever: games like #namethatzoom , projects like FeederSketch , adult-only Ball Pits , and most importantly, the creation of Experimonth , which is what I''d like to blog about today. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' Experimonth started out as play.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. Evergreen Cemetery Board Game. One of our research volunteers, Sangye Hawke, blew me away when she posted a photo on Facebook of the board game she's developing about the restoration work we're doing at historic Evergreen Cemetery. Here's a picture of it in action.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined. The scale and scope of participation in A Show is extraordinary.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Posts under that tag tend to examine non-museum things, from malls to games to ad campaigns , and draw some design lessons for museums from their foreignness. Buses don't employ drivers or operate on city streets to improve the comfort and participatory experience of riding. Today, we look at a familiar thing: urban mass transit.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Jane McGonigal and the folks from IFTF have released a new future-casting game/collaborative experience called Signtific Lab. In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. Here's how Signtific works (their rules here ): The organizing institution presents a three-minute video exploring a "what if?"

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). It's not appropriate to force everything into a numbers game. After all, as naysayers of participatory design often remind me, the museum is not a popularity contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox. Reminds of the exquisite corpse like games we used to play on Arts Wire ten years ago with images. The project wiki is here and he has a del.icio.us feed where he is tagging resources here.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I host dating games. Creating her own versions of classic board games like Guess Who? In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise. I found this idea really powerful. Our curator writes labels about licking the art.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Virtual Game Night. Games are fun. Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . You can use a virtual event platform with a meeting room option to host multiple games at the same time. Do you know what is fun?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

Instead of writing a post and soliciting comments (my typical approach), I used an online polling tool to create a simple game where you could read short provocations about questionable revenue sources and give each source an ethical thumbs-up or down. 3,125 people viewed the game. 610 people played the game.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Her case study about Structured Dialogue in the Signtific Game in chapter 3 describes a project where people engaged in conversation online about wild ideas. Projects guestpost Book: The Participatory Museum.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. The social media user types, like learning styles or gaming styles, are more like personality traits than exclusive groupings. design participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Heck, I even learned about a 17th century German drinking game. While in the American Portrait Gallery, we played a game called Matchmaker Matchmaker. comfort interactives participatory museum programs Unusual Projects and Influences' Here’s an example that I experienced on that first tour of the Met.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

What does "game 2.0" Games are already highly participatory, but over the last few years game designers have been giving players more control over the gameworld and experience. The ultimate substantiation of this is Spore, a game in which players invent their own life forms and manage their evolution.

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