Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Many channels, both personal and professional. MyHerefordshire.com: communities of efficiency. Low barrier to entry. How are the two related? - Jon Lebkowsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I remember her community of clocks project -- she facilitated content creation from schools around the world on the theme of clocks. These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. Employees, volunteers, donors, community members want to feel connected to the organizations they care about. There is no benefit to discounting any individual or group from participating in the planning process.

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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. Many nonprofit organizations know they are making a difference in their unique communities, but do they also know how to showcase that impact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Lots of chatter beyond the Reddit community. ” Lots of comments pros and cons. Applebee’s fired Chelsea. 1: Broadband Internet (Expansion of broadband). #2:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Tell me a little about your professional background, particularly the work you do with nonprofits? I started in the Cornell University Center for Theatre Arts , where I founded and directed two programs: Cornell Theatre Outreach and the Community-Based Arts Project. To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. Open Community by Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon.

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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? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to help support the NTEN Community Challenge , which helped to enhance NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum invites community members to participate in the development and creation of an exhibit. But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." The exhibit opens.

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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. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

While nonprofits may aim to achieve an equitable mission for the community, nonprofits also draw in donors, board members, and employees. Importantly, leaders should also be using DEI resources or DEI professionals as a limitless resource that includes board development. Leaders should also engage in participatory grantseeking.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

MuseumCamp is a professional development experience that is part retreat, part unconference, part adult summer camp. Some people want an outcome-oriented training (as opposed to a community co-created summer camp). You will learn the theory and practice of how to open your organization to robust community participation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

Last week, I wrote about MuseumCamp , the annual professional development event we hold in Santa Cruz. MuseumCamp is a playful, intense, spirited 3-day adventure in which small teams of diverse professionals do a rapid-fire project together on a theme. professional development' Tag Team the Facilitation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Every time a colleague tells me her museum has just hired a "community person," a part of me cringes. When community managers are the sole masters of their own dominions, two problems arise. I've been this community manager and know these problems first-hand. I don't tell this story with pride; I tell it with shame.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The theory of change involves both encouraging local economic activity—increasing the economic multiplier effect, in technical parlance—while fostering bonds of community. A local currency seeks to encourage recirculation and reinvestment within the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 Technorati rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and monitors live communities and the conversations they foster. What if you wanted to present this topic through an authentic lens of community youth? I'm nervous.

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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. VALUE: There are just a few small publishers who serve museum professionals. I spent a year living with this book and a tight community of collaborators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. See, the mark of a great social media effort is when the community itself owns it.

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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. Each month we work with 50-100 individuals to co-produce our community programs. Start with and continuously identify your communities. Can't wait to hear what you think. Who are they?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

This post was written by Evonne Heyning , part of TechSoup's Community team. Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. UStream Producer — This cloud and mobile application allows you to produce professional quality live streaming events with many inputs at your next live event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

To get beyond it, I think we need – each of us individually and in our networks and professional work – to experience and reflect and get better at the ways living in the digital age is the same as, and different from, the analog age.” ” [If you are in NYC on September 24th, PDF is hosting an author talk ].

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2011

It helps institutions leverage the skills and creativity of their communities. The budget doesn't produce abstract drawings or suggestions for how we can serve our community better. Visitor contributions help participants feel connected to institutions. It can provide valuable information for the staff to do their jobs better.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Part of our approach to community involvement in planning Spun had to do with necessity; we needed help to pull this off.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

But so many non-profit professionals get discouraged by storytelling because they think it’s going to require the unparalleled writing skills of a Pulitzer Prize winner. It’s participatory. Much of the work that non-profits are doing is not necessarily relatable to the average community member or supporter.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. The Denver Community Museum (DCM) was a grassroots operation in almost every sense. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

This is a big change for me--professionally and personally--and I'm thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to take on this position in the city I call home. It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to serve the community I love in an institution that has a new strategic plan to become a multi-disciplinary hub for community engagement.

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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. In the co-creation model, visitors and the institution work together from the beginning to define the project's goals and to generate the program or exhibit based on community interests.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. Build community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. They have built an authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact. Just added these to my trainer kit).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Ready to turn your institution into a site of participatory engagement? specializes in designing museum experiences and exhibitions that are community informed, socially stimulating, technologically ambitious, and intriguingly experimental. Want to bring the spirit of this blog to your colleagues and projects?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend). A paper on "Evaluating participatory, deliberative, and co-operative ways of working," put out by the InterAct group in England.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

Like a lot of organizations, my museum struggles with two conflicting goals: The museum should be for everyone in our community. We''re more successful when we target particular communities or audiences and design experiences for them. It''s impossible for any organization or business to do a great job being for everyone. Why fight it?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. And the conference itself resonated with joy, participation, and community.

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