Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. The result is a network diagram of cards, a threaded dialogue that takes place across many nodes. The thing that excites me about this is not the opportunity to use all the weird-colored cardstock hanging around the supply cabinets of most museums.

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Game Experiment Participatory Museum 24

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? It’s nice to have both.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Today, Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 dynamic content aggregation and network machines)." I started the Museum 2.0 dynamic content aggregation and network machines)." and watched the Museum 2.0

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Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

In almost all cases, museums assure me that they want to be in conversation, that they want to be responsive, that they want to “really hear” what people think. Sadly, it was the second story that was about a museum. This is why I always say that participatory tools are about relationships, not technology. Is it a conversation?

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Conversation Museum Artist Minneapolis 21

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. Museum 2.0's The top three most commented-on posts on this blog are: What I Learned on My Summer Vacation (or, I am an Elitist Jerk) Warning: Museum Graduate Programs Spawn Legions of Zombies! They prove that the conversation is two-way.

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Comment Museum Blogger Reflection 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. I spent an hour this morning "brand listening" to what the online world says about one of my favorite museums, the Exploratorium.

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Museum Teen Second Life Discussion 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. t think I???ve way to the future?

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Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. Some museum pros have been puzzled by this. We inspired a community and got real results.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

I've spent the last two weeks working on the third chapter of my book about network effects of social participation. And it's brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago about the Science Museum of Minnesota's Race: Are We So Different? But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal.

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

How can you design museum spaces so that exhibits and artifacts become social objects--things that people want to share with each other? Jyri argues that social networks that succeed are based around objects, not relationships. The fallacy is to think that social networks are just made up of people. Flickr has photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

The runner up winner was Maureen Dowd from Open Museum What I propose to do with the library you are offering is read it, try it, share it, and let you know how it works for me, my colleagues and the people we influence. As you know, it takes more than access to create a successful social media network.

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Library Social Media Louisville Media 94

Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2007

As part of the article I’m working on for the journal Museums and Social Issues on using web 2.0 to promote civic discourse in museums, I’m developing an argument about the “hierarchy of social participation.” Voting, whether for American Idol, national elections, or museum kiosk surveys, falls in this category. Watch a video.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

s Hawaiian son as applied to museums. Consider these two stories of museum-related wikis that struggled. In May of 2007, Woody Sobey released a wiki for science museum educators to share their demos. Woody had seeded the site with about 12 demos from his own museum, but the wiki never took off. What's a wiki?

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Dear friends, This is my last post as the author of Museum 2.0. I'm thrilled that Seema Rao is taking this blog and museum community into its next chapter. You can find all my archived Museum 2.0 Today, I want to share a bit about what Museum 2.0 When I think of Museum 2.0, I started the Museum 2.0

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Museum Reflection Participatory Attitude 27

Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

Oh, and they wanted it to be participatory. I talked with Sarah Rich , one of the project’s instigators and staff members, to learn more about 48 Hour Magazine and its implications for other participatory media projects. We also have contacts with a lot of nodes in the Twitter network who have really big reach.

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Participatory Journal San Francisco Interview 36

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

For a long time, I’ve admired their ambitious work, from exhibitions on complex topics like network science to integration of contemporary art into their galleries to incredible dedication to advancing the careers of diverse youth in Queens. Then again, the New York Hall of Science isn’t just any science center. So we had the key players.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

There are lots of museums (and organizations of all kinds) looking for ways to inspire users and visitors to produce their own content and share it with the institution online. The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. It's not marketing hype.

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