Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was fascinating to see people--across social differences--responding to representations of love in the paintings, images, objects and narratives that were part of the installation. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. We've continued to do this for future exhibitions.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

He casts the whole idea of a great jazz jam in the context of the tragedy of the commons--like a poetry open mic, the jazz club is a community whose experience is fabulous or awful depending on the extent to the culture cultivates and enforces a healthy participatory process. The result is that people get turned off, cynical, and leave.

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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.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The book is a guide about how to navigate and thrive in a connected world that has been increasingly been influenced and increasingly defined by two different forces, old and new power. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads and it captures. New power is made by many.

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Participatory Nonprofit Leadership Skills 119

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

However, as several new books elaborate upon the concept from different perspectives, and a growing number of organizations have recently launched ambitious initiatives to expand the paradigm to other areas of business, I thought it might be a good time to reframe “Open&# from a design point of view."

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Web Haiti Bookmarking Participatory 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Reflective Practice.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Over three months, about 600 people filled mason jars with personal memories and put them on display. People were spending a long time working on them. He puts it on the wall. What was it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. Have people share why they chose or rejected certain items. What participatory techniques have you translated from in-person meetings to online meetings successfully?

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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 ). Consider a mural.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. But people have participated in completely different ways. People like participating, we take them seriously, and they take us seriously. or maybe we need a different activity in there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations.

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Rwanda Social Media Leadership Train 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Rick wanted a better way to describe what kinds of projects led to different community outcomes.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

For those who can''t see the image, the card reads: When I first saw the "pastports" I didn''t really understand, but after reading what people wrote in them I felt an overwhelming connection to all the words of so many random people. Each prompt was tied to a different artwork in the exhibition. Some people say it with a poem.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I am fascinated by the incredible differences in what people contribute based on format and phrasing of the invitation to participate. Our current exhibition is about why people collect things. One of the collections on display is a set of "found lists" collected by a local farmer, Danny Lazzarini.

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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. Instead she drew people personally into the stories again and again, asking us to compare our own and our ancestors' experiences to those she described. But participatory facilitation can be taught.

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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 ). Consider a mural.

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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. In Foot in the Door , the content is so wide-ranging that it was easy for people to talk about favorites. Yes, Foot in the Door draws lots of diverse people--both contributors and visitors.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition showcases collectors from throughout Santa Cruz County--people with collections from animal skulls to dryer lint to priceless historic flags. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design 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

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I spent today at day 1 of the TechSoup Global Summit in Mountain View with two hundred and forty people who work in the TechSoup Global Network around the world, plus other stakeholders. Alan Gunn was the moderator/host and the participatory design did not disappoint. The started with some big picture frames.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. note: originally, this said "we're writing a label" but with that phrasing, lots of people wrote creative titles for the surfboards (like the title for a work of art) instead of talking about content of interest. What do you want to know?

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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. The exhibit opens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. In some instances, you might need a longer amount of time to do this exercise, but the way this was facilitated with 50 people was highly productive and efficient. There are usually two aspects of this.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I'm finding myself really enjoying fundraising because it is fundamentally about inspiring people to participate--and to do so in a way that is significant both for the organization and for themselves. As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization.

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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. ” While the specific topics will emerge from the people in the room, impact leadership is focusing within, people, processes and plans to help the org reach it’s mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

See the recent article by Ali Levine " Talking with Young People, Not At Them " I was able to attend the event, but through the New Media Consortium campus because adults are not allowed in the Teen Grid. The are people here from very different places. re talking about real things, that touch real people, and you???re

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Here are four ways you can make your funding program better for the people who will be completing it. 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. As funders, you know what information you need to make a decision. Try to fill it out yourself.

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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. As Clay Shirky says, “A society where everyone has some kind of access to the public sphere is a different kind of society that one where citizens approach media as mere consumers.&#

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Social Media Participatory Lesson Media 95

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. Museums and traditional institutions are not typically set up to manage participatory projects at such a high level of detail.

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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. The people at Museums and the Web are on the forefront of web-based innovative museum practice. You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The facilitation methods are participatory. Innovating for People Handbook: Design Thinking Methods: A recipe book of human-centered design methods. Liberating Structures: My colleagues Nancy White and Kyla Shawyer introduced me to this participatory approach to facilitation.

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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. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin. The Second C: Collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Bridging differences: Deliberately connecting people with different perspectives. Catalyzing mutual support: Helping people directly help each other. 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

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The design challenge was: How do we come up with concrete tools, frameworks and methods for helping people better understand and adopt network systems leadership? Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide. It refers to the part of a participatory process where you know the problem or consensus won’t come easily.

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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. Well actually, this post is about the people who participated at the highest level of engagement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Lots of people were there (I ran out of handouts – I was surprised to see how many people showed up.) There were a very wide range of people there, from folks who didn’t know a whole lot about open source, to those who were developing open source apps. That speaks volumes to me.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. What may be culturally-determined, however, is HOW people want to participate. In different countries, I''ve noticed broad trends in how people feel most comfortable sharing their voice. For the most part, I discounted it.

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