When I talk about Web 2.0 with cultural professionals, I like to use Tim O'Reilly's simple definition: software that gets better th...

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people writ...

Yesterday, I did a workshop with some local teenage girls in an after school program. I asked them to take the social object challenge - to ...

Signs like this one (spotted in the window at a large science center) drive me nuts. Why? Because they validate the highly-problematic conce...

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "...

What's the best way to share information about your experiments--what worked and what didn't? Publish . I want to share a few fabulo...

How do you write a question for a comment board that will generate authentic, on-topic, diverse, interesting visitor comments? While I'v...

For three years, I've been using a "hierarchy of participation" diagram to talk about the ways that cultural institutions and...

One of my favorite theoretical constructs is "social objects" --the idea that the most consistent social and dialogue experiences ...

Recently I've been looking at ways cultural institutions invite people to self-identify relative to the visit experience. Having your o...