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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.

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Everyone's Smithsonian: Video, Slides, and an Open Strategic Planning Process

Museum 2.0

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The talk was webcast and taped, and if you have an hour, please consider checking out the video. Seriously, if you are thinking "should I read more or should I just watch the video?"

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

--Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements.

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Take a Side Trip to the Denver Art Museum

Museum 2.0

There is no dissonance between the museum’s formal voice and laminate and the visitors’ pens and paper. You can dial into old rock videos from the era, leave your own video, or watch other memories recorded by visitors. Projects design participatory museum. We’re all together, man. Magical, simple, surprising.

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Designing Talkback Platforms for Different Dialogic Goals

Museum 2.0

In the case of Slavery in New York , the end of the exhibition featured a story-capture station at which visitors could record video responses to a series of four questions about their reactions to the exhibition. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives. A lone "What do you think?"

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How Do You Inspire Visitors to Take Action After They Leave?

Museum 2.0

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). it uses art, history, artifacts, and storytelling to illuminate a big human story and an urgent social issue.

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Growth Hacking Your Mission With People Power

Connection Cafe

It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” From the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter, from the Ice Bucket Challenge to the Woman’s March, many of today’s most effective movements are less about single charismatic voices and more about the power of the chorus. Technology. How we live our lives. My Passion.

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