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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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. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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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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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

But that would be like confusing the image in your bathroom mirror with another person and thinking that youre having a conversation when actually youre just talking to yourself. If you were the president of the womens chess club at your university, that should count extra for you, right? 1 Can you elaborate on that?

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

You’re super involved with Cal State University. And so I, you know, want to hear from you because I know that whatever is on your mind, you’re able to add to the conversation. But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning. Where are we not putting our energy?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

University law schools are hosting seminars on Ferguson. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” Are there civic organizations in your area that are hosting conversations? inclusion'

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. I don''t think these goals are universal by any means to the museum or arts field. This has prompted more conversations about workload, scheduling, and financing for projects.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2011

Both Andrew and James run programs in Arts Administration (at the Wisconsin School of Business and Drexel University respectively) and have lots of experience working and researching what makes arts organizations successful. The one-hour conversation will be wide-ranging, free-wheeling, and open to your comments and questions.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Is it a conversation? In almost all cases, museums assure me that they want to be in conversation, that they want to be responsive, that they want to “really hear” what people think. In one case, the institution jumped into the conversation and converted an ugly situation into a positive community outcome.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I was sought out and could initiate conversations. Over the years, I've learned to put on an imaginary magic vest when I go to museums, and I've gotten more comfortable starting conversations without it. Of course, there's no single social object that projects a universal message of openness and willingness to engage.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2013

I was sought out and could initiate conversations. Over the years, I''ve learned to put on an imaginary magic vest when I go to museums, and I''ve gotten more comfortable starting conversations without it. Of course, there''s no single social object that projects a universal message of openness and willingness to engage.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Barry is asking the universe to send him names of "unheralded arts sector leaders" to be considered for an all-star dinner party in 2013. 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.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2017

Take a look at the universal charitable deduction. At our core, we are participatory government and our Representatives and Senators need to know what their constituents think about the issues on which they vote. Of the many provisions being discussed, three could impact the social sector: Reduction in income tax brackets.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Part 1: It's What You Want In 2002, I was finishing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at WPI, a hands-on, technical university in Worcester, Massachusetts. 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.

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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 ). It’s a two-hour workshop to be held at the university and space is limited— go here to register.

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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. New voices energizing conversations. 10/5/2016. Nov 16 - 19.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. Most social objects that mediate conversation among strangers are incidental. Spring is here and it’s time to talk to strangers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

Thank you to Susan Spero and all the folks at JFKU and Left Coast Press for starting a highly stimulating conversation this weekend at the colloquium on Museums and Civic Discourse. Tags: participatory museum. But all of us have experienced more informal, less well-facilitated forms of discourse.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I’m a big believer about putting things into the universe. And so it’s really powerful to be able to facilitate those conversations and then together, they could plan a project on how to help clarify what the expectations are at traffic stops.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

And they made the decision and there’s a story we tell in the book of there’s a conversation Henry has with his board and his board goes, okay, we liked this idea, but where does the logo go? So this is a video game that is a PC simulated universe game that a guy called Chris Robinson announced about five years ago.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. Honest conversations are the beginning of more equitable museums. This decade has begun the conversation about labor. Our teams know what it takes to do their job.

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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. Yes, people get highly energized in the space and have great conversations about art and art-making. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

When I work outside of the US, my process is to listen and observe as much as possible. I also do not over prepare so I can be more flexible in the delivery and spark conversations around what is relevant or what isn’t. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya.

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The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

Micheal and I sat down last week and had a really direct, really interesting conversation about all those things. I don’t really know what to make of that statement, especially because one of the things Michael talked about the most passionately in our conversation was demystifying YC by widely and openly sharing information.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

For example, we look to external communities to guide understanding of when and why our evaluations fall short using participatory systems , which explicitly enable joint ownership of predictions and allow people to choose whether to disclose on sensitive topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. Everyone is a Curator.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

They edit the conversations into radio shows, which are then made available as a podcast (you can listen to episode featuring me, #89: Museum Secrets, here ). The conversations are often long--20 minutes or more--and Mercedes and Zachary only get to the question at the end of a meandering conversation with the guest.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

It takes the kind of risks that a university art gallery should take. It opens up new conversations about the work of art in our communities. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 27, 2025

A better alternative , in our view, would be to make renaming shared landscapes participatory , with opportunities for meaningful public involvement in the renaming process. Kannarr is a PhD candidate in geography at the University of Tennessee. Alderman is a chancellor’s professor of geography at the University of Tennessee.

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