Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. This year, we took a different approach. 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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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 prompt was tied to a different artwork in the exhibition. The idea was that people would spin the wheel and start a conversation. Each of these activities invited contribution on a different level.

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Participatory Museum History Arts 45

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. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ).

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 50

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. This immediately led to cross conversation. But Vi's tour also reminded me how dramatically different a community museum is from a typical institution. But participatory facilitation can be taught.

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. In fact, I think there is an expectation that some works will be great and others crap--and visitors revel in the opportunity to arbitrate the difference themselves.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ).

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Candid

AUGUST 20, 2024

What are the power dynamics behind that hesitancy, and how can we create space for conversations around this challenging topic? The leaders also used endowment advisors to help them think differently about financial strategy. Yet, many funders are hesitant to fund endowments.

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Build Nonprofit Philanthropy Foundation 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. The Second C: Collaboration.

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Social Media Media Social Collaboration 107

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. Ideally, you’d run this workshop with your team, organization, community group, etc.

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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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Global Network Participatory Netsquared 97

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. NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. 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

APRIL 8, 2011

Listening to and consulting the crowds: Actively listening to online conversations and openly asking for advice. Bridging differences: Deliberately connecting people with different perspectives. We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory.

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Network Report Empowerment Philanthropy 106

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. Nonprofit Use #1: Events and Conferences Since those early days, hashtags have been used in different ways by nonprofits. Photo by Mansikka. What is a #HashTag? A hashtag is this symbol: #.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

But it never hurts to review what information you’re asking for and whether it can be shortened or be collected in a different way. Think through whether these templates should be required or if your applicants can submit the same information—which they probably have from a different grant application—in a different format.

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Grant Application Help Blackbaud 111

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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Leadership Design Network Course 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Network Build Social Media Participatory 95

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Quality Shakespearian theater is different from quality contemporary dance. Here, in no particular order, are ten different kinds of quality in arts experiences: AESTHETIC: is it beautiful? PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? High participatory quality, low technical quality. It can unlock several.

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Museum Participatory Arts Culture 55

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. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. Check out the other parts here. What did they do? Why did they do it?

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 32

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian's excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Yes and no.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

In this "speed geeking" format, participants will rotate through presenters' tables to discuss different topics. Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation. We think Watchitoo.

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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.

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Museum Participatory Arts History 53

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face? There was an interesting mini-conversation, which, in retrospect, I really wish I’d had a chance to explore more, about the supposed "egalitarian" nature of free and open source software development. That speaks volumes to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

How can you tell the difference? Tweet conversations about you. Networks, groups, applications, conversations, meet-ups, T-shirts, donations, volunteer events and political actions receive community wide support and in many cases are created by the community itself. happen instead of links from your Twitter account.

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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. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

People have their own customs online, they act differently, and it can be hard to find your way around. He defines participatory culture as a culture: 1. Our conversations here in the blogosphere are participatory, although it would be nice to have multimedia conversations. using the web???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

I’ve always dreamed of accessing a diverse network of people who do nonprofit capacity across different disciplines or what Nancy White has described as “ learning from adjacent practices.” Need safe and supported spaces for difficult movement conversations. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations.

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Global Network Change Social 93

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I had to imagine the deep conversations visitors had as they deliberated on which painting to vote for. The whole process of being interviewed for the story made me question the stories we tell and words we use to describe participatory work. What is the metaphor for participatory arts? Projects participatory museum'

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Journal Community Museum Participatory 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was drastically different from the Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN’s flagship event that has over 2,000 attendees, dozens of tracks and hundreds of panels, big parties, a trade show, and all the things you would expect from a traditional conference. Taking in New Ideas: Facilitated Listening.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 127

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Bridging refers to an inclusive and outward looking form of linking different and diverse individuals and groups together to form new relationships. I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I am asking myself and colleagues who do networked NGO training and social media skill building outside the of US – the question about building resilient networks and how to incorporate non-violent techniques. [ here and here ]. We don’t have any answers, but we all feel that our work is all the important as is a conversation.

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Tunisia Reflection Social Media NGO 105

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. However, when we initiate a more practical conversation, we can determine which questions will be most useful. Each member of the team brought a different perspective based partly on their work in the organization.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Grant 115

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Based on the conversation with these grantmakers, here are four ways grantmakers can make sure all stages of their funding programs include the voices and perspectives of women. Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. Artwork by Toya Beacham See Women and Girls.

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Philanthropy 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy.

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Strategy Social Skype Remix 99

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. People answer questions differently in harshly lit interrogation rooms than they do in welcoming therapists' offices or in the privacy of their own computer terminals.

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Goal Difference Design Platform 31

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian''s excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Yes and no.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today. The difference in what we contribute is in the design of the invitation conferred onto us. Museums can be incredible catalysts for social change. But they're not there yet.

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