tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75694016601081499882011-06-08T01:40:26.166-05:00Matthew MacArthurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502413441313590786noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-25128930974325867262007-09-26T23:33:00.000-05:002007-09-26T23:41:28.856-05:00

In October, AAM will be releasing a new book, The Digital Museum: A Think Guide. My chapter on the topic of museums and Web 2.0 (which includes many concepts previewed here) entitled "Can Museums Allow Online Users to Become Participants?" can be found online here. Happy reading!

Matthew MacArthurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502413441313590786noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-42315407593158095972007-05-23T13:35:00.000-05:002007-05-23T13:36:39.902-05:00

First let me add my thanks to our participants and audience who made the two sessions possible. Some quick thoughts. The audiences from both sessions indicated, during a show of hands (the rooms were filled), that they were supportive of employing visitor authored techniques in the museum setting. Our sense is that the audience was already predisposed to embrace these techniques and probably not

John Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00429691098049879947noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-78411717753623189362007-05-23T06:57:00.000-05:002007-05-23T06:59:23.664-05:00

Thanks to all who participated in our panel, presenters and audience. Hopefully you found it enlightening. We had hoped for more time for questions, so if you do have questions for any of the panelists, feel free to contact one of us directly. You can find the session handout and presentations on the Media & Technology Web site.

Matthew MacArthurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502413441313590786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-35017952138015693862007-05-15T08:06:00.000-05:002007-05-15T08:22:13.238-05:00

The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning is in the process of building a number of tools that help users reuse and remix openly available web resources. All tools let users tag, share, and manipulate web resources. Tools are lightweight and generally single purpose. They are focused on developing semantic web applications based on folksonomic data. They are completely open and free to use

shelleylynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17083379443606564403noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-91119013494158452282007-05-08T15:33:00.000-05:002007-05-08T15:42:56.122-05:00

One of the core questions behind Web 2.0 and user participation (especially in the museum context) is this: what is the proper role and relationship of experts and amateur enthusiasts? As writer Steven Johnson stated in Time’s 2006 “Person of the Year” issue, “How you feel about the broader cultural implications of the Web revolves around the response this permanent amateur hour triggers in you.

Matthew MacArthurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502413441313590786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-10487288290431194822007-05-06T18:33:00.000-05:002007-05-06T22:55:22.860-05:00

On April 25, 2007 the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto launched a new online initiative called Collection X (http://www.collectionx.museum/). This project, which has been in development for six years, represents a huge leap forward for the AGO not only because it makes works from the permanent collection available online but also because it makes it possible for the public to upload their own

Colin Wigintonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14948332934907322178noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-89048366718439545882007-05-02T16:17:00.000-05:002007-05-02T16:25:11.695-05:00

Sometimes the assumption is made that most Web users want to take a more active role if given the opportunity. What else explains the meteoric rise of sites like MySpace and YouTube? But is that what users of museum Web sites want? The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History attempted to find out in a survey they conducted in preparation for a new Web portal on oceans - the survey

Matthew MacArthurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502413441313590786noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-45010252016929432212007-04-25T09:01:00.000-05:002007-04-25T15:17:05.099-05:00

Of all the arguments for taking a participatory approach in museums and online, I think the most compelling are rooted in recent research on informal learning and audience behavior in museums. It is conventional wisdom - at least in my workplace - that too often the way visitors use our products (exhibits, Web sites, etc.) and what they learn from them does not meet our expectations. A hard

Matthew MacArthurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502413441313590786noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-37615011885798123152007-04-19T14:55:00.000-05:002007-04-19T15:56:09.788-05:00

The issue of trust comes up frequently when discussing visitor involvement in museums, and can be viewed from a couple perspectives. First is the trust that audiences have in museums. A “brand” such as the Smithsonian, where I work, commands a great deal of authority. Most museums play trusted roles in their communities, or aspire to do so. Some feel that inviting users to participate in

Matthew MacArthurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502413441313590786noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-79399983577275075752007-04-16T14:23:00.000-05:002007-04-16T14:26:56.585-05:00

The term “Web 2.0” is thrown around a lot these days but it is difficult to pin down a single definition. There are some good attempts to describe it here and here (including thoughts from Tim O’Reilly, one of the term’s inventors). For our purposes I would boil it down to a shift, both in technology and use patterns, from thinking of the Web as a collection of pages passively accessed by users

Matthew MacArthurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502413441313590786noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-87039174707524954852007-04-12T10:52:00.000-05:002007-04-12T10:59:37.173-05:00

Thanks for visiting Museums Remixed. We are excited to present a couple of panel discussions at this year’s American Association of Museums conference on the subject of participatory museum experiences and user-contributed content. All the panelists have spent a lot of time thinking about this issue and putting it into practice in various ways. As John mentioned in his post, we are serious

Matthew MacArthurhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15502413441313590786noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-90850870563002912382007-04-11T18:55:00.000-05:002007-04-12T11:00:42.921-05:00

This is my first blog entry. Here I am outlining why I elected to chair an American Association of Museums conference session on this topic.As an independent designer focused on creating visitor experiences, I want to engage in a conversation regarding the effectiveness of visitor authored experiences in the museum setting. The question is, can we open the way to more effective design processes

John Chiodohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00429691098049879947noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7569401660108149988.post-88423616089271867042007-04-09T12:30:00.000-05:002007-04-09T12:40:00.365-05:00

Just wanted to let any interested parties know that I will be presenting a workshop entitled Remixing Museum Education through Online Participatory Learning and a paper entitled Remixing Exhibits: Constructing Participatory Narratives With On-Line Tools To Augment Museum Experiences at the Museums and the Web conference in San Francisco this week. I hope to come back with lots of great feedback

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