Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,&# a story telling tool. (And, had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. (Early bird registration ends on July 31 and scholarship information is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. Next, Daniel Ben-Horin gave us the context of the TSG Network and hopes for the future that would emerge from the conversations over the next few days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. It also makes it easy for attendees to follow the conversation thread and participate whether they are or in the room or following from afar. Photo by Mansikka. What is a #HashTag?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." We want to cultivate a more diverse audience, especially younger people, and we want to do it authentically." Audience development is not an exercise in concentric circles.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? And then you show up in person and feel jilted.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

With the Virginia Department of Education’s I’m Determined initiative, we brought in key audiences at a discovery and design phase, much earlier than traditional audience testing would take place. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process.

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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. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. I felt accountable to an audience, and that kept me going throughout the writing. Check out the other parts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. In 2005, at the Les Blogs conference in Paris, there was a flap about the backchannel because the conversation crossed a line. .

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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. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

--Elaine Heumann Gurian, The Importance of "And" Recently, I''ve been embroiled in local and national conversations about the relationship between active participation and quiet contemplation in museums. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. Staffing: We have 2.25

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. (I Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Collaborative programs with diverse groups bring in a variety of visitors causing new audiences to interact and connect. The value of participatory experiences is epitomized in FIGMENT , a free, creative, participatory, non-profit, community art event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

They have built an authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. My audience included many people who were blind.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Here's the short version (read the whole thing here ): The Museum of Art & History is committed to creating exhibitions that inspire our diverse audiences to engage deeply with contemporary art and Santa Cruz County history. Have you done this at your museum, either directly with a document or indirectly through conversation?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

For me, Downward Draw provided an unusual opportunity to examine the more casual end of the participatory spectrum. For years, I've used Forrester Research's five social media user categories --creators, critics, collectors, joiners, and spectators--as a guide when thinking about how to design participatory experiences in physical space.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. From day 1, I believed that we needed to focus in our first year on creating new participatory events to engage the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. All those tweets about what you had for breakfast that everyone makes fun of?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” How do these issues relate to the mission and audience of your museum? Are there civic organizations in your area that are hosting conversations?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. Who is the audience for Museum Hack? When we became more known on these trip planning websites, it shifted our audience. What is my “ask” of my audience? You are a museum insider and a content geek.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Conversations about the tournament on the street. And it''s got me thinking about how we build energy and audience for the arts in this country. Barry Hessenius recently wrote a blog post questioning the theory that more art into the school day will increase and bolster future adult audiences for art experiences. It''s exciting.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The key is to get all the information you need to deploy a multichannel conversion strategy, with a focus on converting online leads into monthly donors over the phone. In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

Negotiated agency" strikes me as a really useful framework in which to talk about visitor/audience participation in the arts. The theater is dark and the artist breaks the fourth wall and asks for conversation. institutional change relationships participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences game visitors'

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. Two person audiences in the Little William Theater. No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

It was terrific to have a packed room and a long, open conversation (we split the session into half presenting, half audience discussion) about these issues. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

A national election is the ultimate participatory project. I realize as I write this list that we do invite certain people to participate in these conversations, but not our onsite audience. These conversations are the basis for institutional partnerships and much of our funding.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

Near the end of the talk, an audience member asked, How do you choose which level to approach a topic when your listeners range from people who know nothing to people who know all too much? Effectively, Robert is saying that Radiolab isn't just a show where the hosts have conversations with scientists. And they're doing it quite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. The type of conversation you have with your peers about your work that you can only have face-to-face. I pulled out my video camera to do some moment capture.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

This museum was unusual in that the lobby area had a high concentration of pop art meant to appeal to a wide audience. When I asked a few women about their conversations, they explained that some of the people in the photos looked like their grandparents, or were famous people they'd heard about. Where would you like them to be?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

In many cases, we ended up in long conversations with visitors, but that was always driven by their interest in telling us more about what they liked, why they were at the museum, etc. The cards are ok, but the people (and the conversations) are what matters. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. What would you do?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

These are unpaid, part-time internships in which you will make a significant contribution to our work, and at the same time, learn a heck of a lot about participatory design and community engagement. Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence program. and I have always wanted to find ways to invite them in.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

We will also offer a half-day series of workshops on July 10 for a wider audience for $50. We're working with participatory online artist Ze Frank on an exhibition at the MAH this winter that features the missions, creations, and explorations of his current web series, A Show. Registration will be $150 and by application only.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. folk through comments, emails to me, and hallway conversations. I''ve never taken a break from blogging before. To me, Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I learned to appreciate the audience reach of a big institution while vastly preferring the diversity of work and lack of bureaucracy of a small one. I had this dream that I would write about a topic they cared about, send them an email about it, and maybe the conversation would go somewhere. Find a starting point for conversation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. interview Museums Engaging in 2.0

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