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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. The Happy Healthy Social Change Activist: Passion for a Cause without Burnout Workshop. Teams worked on their zines until the end of the camp.

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Causes Change Museum Social 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Assess and Respond to Community Assets and Needs If you want to activate community engagement in your programs, you first need to work together with your communities to determine their diverse needs, assets and interests.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. Every time we collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organization and communication. We realize collaboration differs greatly for each individual and organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The creative process of making films is opening up and the outreach efforts to spark social change through documentary media are becoming much more dynamic and collaborative. Good Pitch is an effort that brings documentary filmmakers together with a wide range of partners in distribution, financing and outreach for activism.

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Guatemala Movie Artist Award 94

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Kids frequently suffer from tokenism.

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Design Participatory Children Museum 49

Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

The experiment is a multi-step activity in which you talk to strangers, get strangers talking to each other, and then build a social object that mediates conversation among strangers (more here ). Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. He doesn't do workshops. But not the dog.

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Experiment Seattle Indianapolis Denver 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. The activities had a really low barrier to entry.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

Over 800 people volunteered their talents to support our programs, with the majority collaborating on our monthly themed 3rd Friday events. These collaborators brought their own audiences along with their abilities, which introduced a lot of new people to the museum. actively sought out community needs to respond to.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine activities that actually encourage you to spend time on said beach. Imagine workshops led by inspiring rock stars from gaming, festivals, and special effects. Imagine workshops led by inspiring rock stars from gaming, festivals, and special effects. Now, imagine it happening in a beautiful retreat center on the beach.

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Collaboration Registration Brain Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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Museum Question Participatory Vietnam 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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Question Participatory Museum Vietnam 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? Defining Roles. I like to use a rock band metaphor.

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Reflection NTEN Change Exercise 127

Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I'd spent years leading workshops around the world as a consultant. I had lots of creative formats for drawing people out, sharing stories, and working collaboratively. The end of an event is one of those moments when the host has to actively practice leadership (and often abdicates). The weird thing is that that wasn't true.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. ACCP: The Conference features General Sessions, Learning Labs, Workshops, The Masters’ Series and new in 2016, Connexity Live. Technology. ACCP: The Conference. ACCP: The Conference. Mar 20 - 23.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. We partnered with the Film Center to conduct workshops with community organizations around personal object storytelling. How and why did Object Stories come to be?

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Story Interview Museum Audio 53

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I think the reason we hold onto the idea generation part is because it's fun, not because it's the activity in which we have the most specialized expertise. People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Second Life 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. We developed these goals through a series of all-staff workshops. PARTICIPATORY : Invites diverse community members to make meaningful contributions as co-creators, collaborators, and energized constituents.

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Goal Museum Evaluation History 48

sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? In participatory processes, our preferred way of decision making is consensus.

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Participatory Facilitation Philanthropy Skills 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Friday, I leave for Beirut for co-lead a series of Train the Trainers workshops as part of the E-Mediat Project , a capacity building project for NGOs to learn social media skills. It is a collaborative way of working. Annie talked about how networks focus on collaboration and action, rather than institution building.

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Story Network Action Examples 100

Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

One of our core programming goals is to build social capital by forging unexpected connections between diverse collaborators and audience members. Family Art Workshops" suffer from anemic participation whereas multi-generational festivals are overrun with families.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

If you are not actively marketing to women and recruiting them, your organization is missing out on major fundraising opportunities. Social Fundraising Success: Strategies & Tools for Activating Your Community **. • women donate twice as many to charities as men do? So you're ready to dive into social fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. Ushahidi’s board , like its staff , work together virtually across many time zones using different online tools for meetings and collaborative work. She kindly live tweeted the workshop and took some photos.

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