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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: guest blogging participatory. Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 20, 2007

There's no doubt a health education component will be key to the project's success. The renovation of an old community center to serve as a library and discussion place should help in this effort. Check out the Siguida ' website - there are lots of ways you can help this great community effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Nina observes that the following makes this project really special: It is 100% community-based. Everyone is a Curator.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 16, 2010

You want to get some projects going, but you're not in any particular position of power. Ruth is a curator of pictorial collections for Puke Ariki, a museum/library/visitor center in the small city of New Plymouth, New Zealand. She came back inspired and eager to get moving on some experimental projects at Puke Ariki.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

Or how Felton Thomas fought the library union to make the Cleveland Public Library matter more. When I wrote my first book, The Participatory Museum , I released it concurrently as a paperback and free online. Take five minutes and learn how the Science Museum in London created better experiences for deaf visitors.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

Then bow your head and say a silent "tak" (that's "thank you" in Danish) to the creators of the Living Library. What is the Living Library? According to their website : The Living Library works exactly like a normal library – readers come and borrow a 'book' for a limited period of time.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. Project-based fundraising can be a cost-effective and engaging way for nonprofits to fund existing programmatic work.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

Come share your projects, challenges, questions, wild successes and epic failures with creative changemakers from around the world. Develop compelling, powerful participatory offers and promises for your prospective partners. Tour MAH participatory exhibitions and shadow MAH community events. Learn more and register here.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

For this reason, I spoke specifically about how to make dream projects possible at real institutions. Pick apart your mission statement, and look for the words and phrases you can connect your project to. What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? Or you can read this condensed version of the talk.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Part 2: How do you develop the right questions?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

I will do what I can to ensure the blog continues to present well-written, diverse projects and ideas, both from me and guest authors. The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. But I will not be going to zero. I promise.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post. Adam and I first met in 2008, when we were part of a National Academies think tank-ish thing on the future of museums and libraries. Adam and I wrote papers that split dramatically on either side the lead/follow line.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2010

This is a participatory comment board in a true sense. to figure out what resources to stock in the Nursery's library in its next iteration. They want to do a good job of it; it's part of the reason they came. The institution facilitates the space and tools to allow visitors to provide information to each other.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum. Dear Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I strongly recommend you read her whole blog back to the beginning (it's not too onerous) and check out the evolution of her experimental format, which she has deployed in museums, libraries, and classrooms in the US and Australia. This project is beautiful in its simplicity. There is paper and pens to write labels.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

When we talk about embracing participatory experiences at non-professional levels, arts professionals often get worried that the best work will get drowned out in mediocrity. If kids were checking out art supplies from the library. inclusion Unusual Projects and Influences' If maker fairs were connected to science centers.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

If you happen to be in the land of kiwis or kangaroos, you can find me: At the National Digital Forum at Te Papa on Nov 23-24, keynoting a closing session about how to move risky projects from dreams to reality. Click on a city name to learn more about how to register and attend. Hiking in the Wakatipu area Nov 28-Dec 6.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. I was impressed by the joy people felt about the projection of a wave at the entrance of their Unseen Oceans show.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

C3 topics have ranged from exhibition development, community needs, outreach programs, our Loyalty Lab project, and family programs. Incredible projects can arise when you have a poet, a librarian, a printmaker, a bookbinder and a teacher all throwing out ideas together. Make time for them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. Nonprofit organizations, libraries, and educational institutions are experimenting with "user-generated" or community-powered campaigns. Hiring people.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! This spanned all the projects. how do you set clear criteria for participation when the project is experimental and ever-changing?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. But the exhibit team did something novel.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?” I don't think so.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2008

The focus will be on developing your wildest dreams as they relate to museums, libraries, etc. This is an attempt to merge the suggestion of a retreat with the "have a real project" suggestion. Telling family and friends that you are blogging is one thing; saying you are writing a book is another.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. The Festival is one moment in a decade-long project to redesign Market Street. The projects were messy, unfinished--true prototypes of future possibilities. Pop up libraries, performance spaces, and seating areas.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

Whereas Netflix bases its recommendations on ratings, Librarything bases its recommendations on the books you have in your library (read why here). Tags: personalization participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. The Unsuggester is based on different values than Netflix's Movies You'll Love and the BookSuggester.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

But the eyes were just the beginning of a major theatrical and experimental project called Ghosts of a Chance. Ghosts of a Chance is a great example of the museum leveraging a niche community (ARG-ers) to energize and provide seed content for participants who are new to participatory gaming. Projects usercontent game.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague. But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. There is funding. There is interest.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. Tags: design participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Image via State Library of Queensland (an institution I love). I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. You gave me support as I struggled to lead a museum through a participatory rebirth. Woman reading a book on a beached rowboat, 1925.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

We share an abiding interest in exploring the community-enhancing roles of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs), especially in terms of the practice of hospitality and service within the institution. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience.

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Candid

DECEMBER 31, 2024

GivingTuesday should be part of a year-round fundraising plan: Try focusing on an untapped group of potential donors or a specific program or project; offer multiple entry points and options for engagement, beyond financial contributions; and promote a monthly giving program that makes it easy for people to set up recurring donations. [S]mall

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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.

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