Candid

AUGUST 20, 2024

The general operating support set a base of stability from which the organization could launch new activities and initiatives. While an investment manager helps fulfill its fiduciary responsibilities, the foundation’s management team ensures the resources are activated to achieve its mission.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. With one exception, no single activity cost more than $30 to produce/maintain.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

He casts the whole idea of a great jazz jam in the context of the tragedy of the commons--like a poetry open mic, the jazz club is a community whose experience is fabulous or awful depending on the extent to the culture cultivates and enforces a healthy participatory process. This is an issue we are actively grappling with at our museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. Instead, Stacey thought, why not make the feedback experience an activity unto itself? Our typical onsite and post-event survey would attract about 20 people to opt in.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. Here's what I think is really strong about the report: Coordinated, succinct research findings supporting the rise of active arts engagement.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. Each of these activities invited contribution on a different level. design exhibition Museum of Art and History participatory museum usercontent' Some with a colored pencil. Some with a paella pan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. It was at this point that we had a moment of realization – that reading is an extremely social activity and that there are communities and organizations who were more than ready to help us achieve our goals. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. You use this to follow a brainstorming activity which may yield an abundance of new ideas. ” This is a simple process for getting participants to prioritize ideas or decisions.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

With a better understanding of who holds power and why that dynamic needs to change, these funders have supported organizations, coalitions, and activities that help make those shifts happen. Long-term power building has a clear ROI Long-term investments in power-building campaigns have paid off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

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. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. He creates a visual representation of his story.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. . Invest in, support, and learn from intermediary organizations, many of which can help you adopt participatory approaches to grantmaking. . Not reinventing the wheel.

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Care2

MARCH 6, 2011

They are viewed as techies and quite fickle when it comes to activism. Youth Activism Key Findings: Being a part of online communities promotes engagement. The Internet can serve as a gateway to online and offline civic and political engagement, including volunteerism, community problem-solving, and protest activity.&#.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. We can certainly write a decent label based on this activity. It was the activity that drew this person (and probably others) to the surfboards—not the objects themselves. But one post-it threw me for a loop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The facilitation methods are participatory. Teampedia -This collection includes many useful team building activities, icebreakers, teamwork resources, and tools for teams that want to improve their collaborative processes, including meetings. This section includes templates for meeting processes.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. It's not just a personal activity; it's an opportunity to be part of something.

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Participatory Music Project Video 48

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. But even developing that open call was a participatory process: Wes worked with other staff to think through how the residencies could work. This open call project may sound like one that is uniquely suited for participatory input.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 8, 2022

Attendees are welcomed and encouraged to bring their whole self to the NTC, and NTEN promises to weave a sense of community into session and activity throughout the three-day event. Where to Find Cloud for Good.

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Forum One

JUNE 6, 2024

Think like a musician Those who have played music in a band or orchestra or sang in a choir understand the profound impact of an engaged and participatory audience. New information, stories, and updates about your mission and activities will encourage repeat visits and ongoing engagement from your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The guidebook focuses on “participatory machine learning,” which actively involves a diversity of stakeholders – technologists, UXers, policymakers, end users, and citizens.” The panel was facilitated by Di Dang, Google Developer Design Advocate. I learned about the People + AI Guidebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." " He describes what Ian observed what happened with his youth audience. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The new building was designed to meet neighborhood needs--not just in the content covered, but in the inclusion of spaces made for particular kinds of activities sought by locals (i.e. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. The exhibits are exciting.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The best participatory projects are useful. Rather than just doing an activity, visitors should be able to contribute in a way that provides a valuable outcome for the institution and the wider museum audience. Yes, this activity is political. From a design perspective, this activity is scaffolded for success.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Visualizing Where Meaning Making Can Happen “Mapping” activities are often the starting point of identifying data collection opportunities.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 102

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. While they may not be as comfortable as Americans with "me" experiences, they are much more up for "we" activities. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere. Is that activity an opportunity or a threat?

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Culture Participatory New Zealand Museum 49

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Several said things like, "I was curious to see how this kind of participatory, collaborative approach would work in practice."

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

Foundations also demonstrated their willingness to support experimentation and learning by actively listening to grantees and communities; giving them more visibility; amplifying grantees’ voices; connecting more with the lived experiences of their grantees and community members; and making their grantmaking more participatory. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals are routine and intentional activities that carry meaning. I’ve taken up many new self-care activities during 2020 to cope with the pandemic stress. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment. I use my self-care plan to formalize my intention to avoid work burnout.

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Journal Reflection Technique Facilitation 148

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. Museums and traditional institutions are not typically set up to manage participatory projects at such a high level of detail.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

We decided to show a selection of Danny's lists in a hallway surrounded by a participatory element where we invite visitors to contribute to new lists on evocative themes ("Things we forget," "The best feelings in the world," etc.) that we selected during prototyping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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