Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

If you are interested in mobile technology and its application for social change projects, this is definitely an event to check out. It is barcamp style, so come with your questions and topics you want to talk about; come meet lots of others interested in leveraging mobile technology for change and collaborate! Each event includes.

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Mobile San Jose Tech Change 100

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. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki.

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Participatory Arts Audience Museum 51

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. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 50

Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

It is intended to spark collaborative visioning, planning, action, and reflection as we all work to ensure a bright future for all children. This collaborative research project aimed to explore two primary questions: 1) Can cross-organizational data sets be combined strategically? The state of diversity in the U.S.

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Issue Resource Philanthropy Children 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process.

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Rwanda Social Media Leadership Train 116

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. The Cheerleader: Champions new power values like collaboration, transparency, and participation, but leads in an old power way.

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Nonprofit Participatory Leadership Skills 119

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. This is very cool. Uck.They still don’t get it.

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Open Source Vlog RSS Participatory 100

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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex.

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Network Build Social Media Participatory 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE. In 2010, I launched the Networked Nonprofit with a flurry of speaking and training gigs literally around the world, while also designing and facilitating many workshops, peer learning groups, and coaching grantees as Visiting Scholar.

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Learning Pakistan Facilitation Haiti 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

.” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action.

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Global Network Change Social 93

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The best participatory projects are useful. The participatory activity in question is part of the new Unfinished Business gallery, a room in which the museum engages with a contemporary issue related to the passion and work of Jane Addams and the historic Hull-House activist residents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The Second C: Collaboration. Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media.

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Social Media Media Social Collaboration 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are also nonprofit specific facilitation tool kits like this one for international development projects. I like to avoid being stuck in the same techniques and am always interested in expanding my toolkit. Participatory Gatherings. That’s why I love looking and testing different methods. Strategic Dialogue.

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Facilitation Technique Nonprofit Chart 124

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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Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Another example of successful power building is California Calls, a statewide coalition of grassroots community organizations that received large, multi-year investments to launch the Million Voters Project (MVP).

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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. With a project like Granito, the film is only the beginning and serves as an invitation for everyone to share their story.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Resource Issue Philanthropy New Mexico 98

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. But there were 52 people who spent several hours working on the project as content reviewers or copy-editors.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 32

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? The Machine Project and the Hammer Museum have just released an incredible ebook documenting Machine's year-long residency at the Hammer in 2010. And the projects themselves are brilliant.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There are many curator and museum director voices in the article, but not a single quote from a visitor who engaged in one of these community projects. I meet them doing research in the archives, collaborating on cultural festivals, and contributing stories to exhibitions. What is the metaphor for participatory arts? The circus?

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Journal Community Museum Participatory 54

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The program operates like a camp that is co-led by the teens involved.

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Participatory Teen Experiment Museum 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet. I remember her community of clocks project -- she facilitated content creation from schools around the world on the theme of clocks.

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Flickr Professional Participatory New York 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Museum programs need to then actively respond to their communities through a variety of ongoing discursive, collaborative and inclusive formats that address needs and assets but also invite communities to be active participants in this process.

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Museum Community Program Participatory 49

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

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. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The DAM is one of several large art museums that is embracing making in a big way—first, through their event-based programming and open art studios tied to temporary exhibitions, and now, through a 1,200 square foot studio in which visitors can do art projects tied to the permanent collection.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

5 Macon Money Macon Money is an innovative project that aimed to unite social, racial, cultural, gender, and economic gaps - all while boosting the local economy! 1 Evoke Played over 10 weeks, Evoke had participants all over the world solving problems with "super powers" like collaboration, courage and resourcefulness. Everyone wins!

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Impact Game Social Libya 88

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2003, my collaborator Stephanie and I began an excavation, declaring nothing for sale. George will respond to comments on this post and is also reachable here.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

So much about becoming friends at work underpins how you ultimately collaborate.”. When Clubhouse was launched in its alpha form last year, it was discussed as being a new form of participatory media “that would change everything,” d’Sa said, and he wanted something like that for his work colleagues.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above). He is an authoritative artist of the social web with a slew of accolades and a suite of diverse projects under his belt.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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