Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.)

Participatory 51

Participatory Museum Arts Blackboard 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. One colleague suggests that users should be able to contribute original work.

Activities 98

Activities Active Activism Model 98

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

Participatory 52

Participatory Arts Learning Music 52

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. Are you working on a community-driven project or looking to start one? Technology cards.

Community 123

Community Impact Social Phoenix 123

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.

Resource 98

Resource Issue Philanthropy New Mexico 98

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In our quest to make the public areas of the museum more reflective of Santa Cruz culture, we moved these boards from a comprehensive display in the history gallery into a main stairwell, prominently visible from the lobby and throughout the building. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way.

Participatory 48

Participatory Museum San Diego History 48

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. They started by recording thousands of stories or 19,181 stories to be exact told by people from areas where GlobalGiving partners work. How do you make sense?

Story 124

Story Data Measure Analysis 124

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Development works when you are responsive to the donor's needs, not just presenting your own." Anyone who has worked in fundraising has likely heard these missives again and again. As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization.

Participatory 39

Participatory Fundraising Practice Relationship 39

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

It's the end of the summer, which means we are sadly bidding farewell to our fabulous summer interns, getting lonely and scared about how we will possibly do amazing work in the coming months without their brilliance, ingenuity, and creativity. I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design.

Participatory 37

Participatory Museum International Unconference 37

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. Solutions Privilege: How privilege shapes the expectations of solutions, and why it’s bad for our work addressing systemic injustice. Evaluating a Culture.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Open Participatory Foundation 98

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. In some cases, partners will not have met face-to-face before they work together. Experience with Middle Eastern Culture and no experience. Efficiency.

Network 95

Network Build Social Media Participatory 95

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

For funders, nonprofits, and institutions across industries to effectively participate in the global movement to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty, they must first transform internal organizational culture and capacity to advance access, equity, and justice. Disrupt Power Imbalances.

Intergenerational 52

Intergenerational Culture Accessibility Philanthropy 52

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

As anyone who works at a nonprofit organization can tell you, surplus is a luxury most NPOs rarely enjoy. Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival. posted by Coiya Tompkins , Vice President, Corporate. Sun Health.

Community 87

Community El Paso Nonprofit Phoenix 87

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. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with my fellow track facilitators to design the process that we will lead the participants in our track through.

Registration 130

Registration Leadership Impact Change 130

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. Dearth of resources/cultural practices around curriculum sharing.

Global 93

Global Network Change Social 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I just received my copy of Henry Jenkin's Convergence Culture which has been on my list ever since I heard him speak at the launch of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning and Media Initiative. ve created something that has some impact in the culture. s the exicting thing about the work of Global Kids ??? Is it just a fad?"

Second Life 50

Second Life Participatory Life Discussion 50

Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Skeptical because Candid is a nonprofit that describes its work ethic and culture as similar to that of the tech sector, which could mean either mission-driven with an innovative mindset, or appropriating the rhetoric of social movements while engaging in extractive practices.

Data 98

Data Demographics Participatory Aggregator 98

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

As many of you know, I've been working for the past year+ on a book about visitor participation in museums, libraries, science centers, and art galleries. The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. Want to buy a book ?

Participatory 30

Participatory Museum Vietnam Arts 30

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. “ “It is more important to try something new, and work on the problems as they arise, than to figure out a way to do something new without having any problems.&#.

Social Media 95

Social Media Participatory Lesson Media 95

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

Question 49

Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Google Research AI blog

MARCH 16, 2023

We study and develop scalable, rigorous, and evidence-based solutions using data analysis, human rights, and participatory frameworks. We also offer research support to some of our organization’s most challenging efforts, including the 1,000 Languages Initiative and ongoing work in the testing and evaluation of language and generative models.

Research 111

Research Impact Google Analysis 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The piece talks about how the growing tension between: old power and new power are transforming the way that social good activists do their work. The article lays out a framework for understanding how power works and how it is shifting. They characterize these two types of power as: Old power works like a currency.

Collaboration 118

Collaboration Social Channel Share 118

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

No one wants to do crappy work. The word "quality" is often code for aesthetic quality, as judged by a specific set of cultural expectations and preferences. PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? High participatory quality, low technical quality. Ideas cultural competency design'

Museum 55

Museum Participatory Arts Culture 55

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. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { This is very cool.

Open Source 100

Open Source Vlog RSS Participatory 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

The above powerpoint is from 1999 and excerpted from day-long workshops I used to lead when I worked at NYFA and design and ran a program called "KIT: Knowledge in Technology - Technology Planning for Arts Organizations." He defines participatory culture as a culture: 1.

Social Network 50

Social Network Network Social Guide 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

To understand the project, you have to get familiar with work of Greenpeace Mobilisation Lab. The Mobilisation Lab works with Greenpeace and its partners on the following services: Mobilisation Strategy and Design :: creative and collaborative workshops with multidisciplinary teams.

Journal 103

Journal Learning Change Social 103

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory? But what if the "traditional" arts experiences is a myth?

Greece 51

Greece Arts Participatory Industry 51

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It''s the work we feel driven to do to build a museum that is of and for our community. The curiosity about the work of professional curators and the assigning of aesthetic value. I meet them doing research in the archives, collaborating on cultural festivals, and contributing stories to exhibitions. It''s not cheap. The circus?

Journal 54

Journal Community Museum Participatory 54

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.

Participatory 26

Participatory Design Museum Wiki 26

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 What have you found that works that helps your organization take the first steps towards social media adoption? Present their stories. Opening up [.].

Social Media 100

Social Media Network Media Social 100

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. I closed this book wondering: are cultural institutions really interested in being third places? Facebook discussion board here.

Place 41

Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

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.

Participatory 33

Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When the global pandemic hit, Russell d’Sa was running product at Medium and recognized early on that with everyone working from home, the company’s culture was impacted, affecting a lot of the interaction between employees. So much about becoming friends at work underpins how you ultimately collaborate.”. “So

Open 77

Open Participatory Audio Camera 77

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 other three are cultural, and I'm not sure how accurate they are.

Participatory 24

Participatory Teen Experiment Museum 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. .” I also include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify.

Professional 0

Professional Nonprofit Journal Reflection 0

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear. .&#

Open Source 100

Open Source Open Software Wiki 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts. Together, Fox and Fledgling developed an intensive outreach strategy through more than 500 community screenings. But that is only the jumping off point for the inquiry.

Guatemala 94

Guatemala Arts Award Artist 94