Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

This is the first installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Facebook discussion board here. People make fun of each other and laugh loudly. While the talk may encompass serious topics, the attitude is light and the conversation is not structured or overly guided. On the other hand.

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The good news? The bad news?

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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. The scenarios are both possible and provocative.

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Network Report Empowerment Participatory 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. First, with discipline and structure. Perhaps we are confusing qualitative data with gut decisions ? How do you make sense?

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Story Data Analysis Measure 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. The lead will call on the other facilitators during the discussion to add their subject matter expertise or co-facilitate. The Importance of Icebreakers: Getting To Know People in the Room.

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Reflection NTEN Change Exercise 127

Care2

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. The biggest barriers groups face is how to structure listservs. How should people frame their topic for discussion when they post to the listserv? Before Web 2.0 Remember them? Should they be moderated?

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Listserv Community Online Participatory 56

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum Question Participatory Vietnam 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The film that lite the tinderbox of protests is disgusting and insulting to a people of Islamic faith and yes social media can accelerate protests and violent responses quickly (as it can accelerate social good.) “When people who were born and raised in dictatorships. ” Widad E.

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 105

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Question Participatory Museum Vietnam 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

When I described this, a few people had a look of horror or maybe stress come across their faces. I think the best approach is to use something like Box or Drop Box and a folder structure organized like your editorial calendar. And on a regular basis, measure, learn, and improve what you are doing. Format Templates and Cheat Sheets.

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Social Media San Antonio Content Strategy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

The new social tools that we are here to discuss are not so new anymore. There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. We are asked to contain those people and make sure they do what we want, and also ensure only the “good” ideas are accepted. Yes, that difficult word, BUT. And control?

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Create Green Social Media Structure 94

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. He co-authored a paper called " Visual Diagnostics and Mapping for Scaling Change " and we had an opportunity to discuss it. Key is a participatory development process.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Organizational Awareness: the ability to understand the politics within an organization and how these affect the people working in them. Service: the ability to understand and meet the needs of people you work with. Pay close attention to interactions with other people. Identify other people’s emotional states.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. People talk. People talk. I take the same bus every day and recognize many of the people on it. One guy sings.

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Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Patient advocates play a critical role in setting research priorities, designing clinical trials and structuring appropriate clinical engagement with industry. Celgene’s has five focus areas that guide its work and that our talks and discussion touched on many of these themes. This “Dr.

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Social Media Network Data Media 50

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 #2: Sharing Knowledge/Resources As Community of Practice Hashtags can create an ad hoc community of practice or a channel for people in a field to informally share resources or conversation.

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Twitter Foundation Effective San Diego 95

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Consider whether you want a bonded group (people who are like each other) or a bridged group (people who are different from each other). Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. If you are building something new and want people's ideas, go for bridging.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. We spent a lot of time identifying grantees and other funders, but also people who be “thought catalysts” or subject matter experts in “21 st Century advocacy” to bring into the room. New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Resolution One: "I resolve to empower our supporters to tell our story, reach new people and raise funds." This section has great tips on peer-to-peer applications and discusses its benefits such as the ability to grow your database, build community and constituent loyalty and expand fundraising.

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Difference Convio Participatory Jordan 28

Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. We then invited people to submit their own photographic responses (via the web) inspired by one of the 13 works from the project. Each work was specifically chosen for its potential to inspire creative responses.

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Authoring Open Experiment Museum 53

Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Resolution One: "I resolve to empower our supporters to tell our story, reach new people and raise funds." This section has great tips on peer-to-peer applications and discusses its benefits such as the ability to grow your database, build community and constituent loyalty and expand fundraising.

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Social Media Difference Advocacy Case Study 28

Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I had lots of creative formats for drawing people out, sharing stories, and working collaboratively. Invite people into participation. These kinds of rules have the surprising dual effect of helping people know what to expect AND making events more memorable. The host has to decide to close the discussion. Take the lead.

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Hosting Arts Help Museum 31

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

After several months of planning massively collaborative programs (a typical monthly event might involve 50 partners), we've realized that the people who are best at helping us come up with ideas are not necessarily the people who are best to help us execute them. We made people write things down constantly.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

And for all you people using Four Square , it's also one of the official Check-in for Charity locations (hint: new badge anyone?). will all be featured and sharing their standards of “now communication” with Mark Horvath who is leading the discussions. The Beacon: Lounge with a Conscience! ” 13.

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Conference Government Social Media Influence 38

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

First, we realized that our museum is different from other museums, but our benefits and membership structure were the same as others. Some experiences completely cut across demographics - some people like parties, some people want a solitary experience with art. People want to experience art in quite individual ways.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! Some of the key lessons we discussed were: providing crystal-clear criteria and constraints to help participants focus their work.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. The Wikimedians asked if the museum would coordinate a project in which people could photograph artworks in cultural institutions to illustrate Wikipedia articles. It started with a request from a group of New York Wikimedians to the Brooklyn Museum.

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Wikipedia Arts Museum Images 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. The further this moves towards reality, the more I'm focusing on how I'm going to serve the people walking in the door and the less I'm thinking about my colleagues. Maybe not. My model is the shining star.

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Action Ideas St. Louis Museum 31

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

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. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives. If someone asked you that question, how would you answer?

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

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. My big challenge during this stage was feeling comfortable putting my roughest work out for people to read.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. Paradoxically, the anonymity of online interactions both protects and exposes people to harm. What makes Web 2.0 The tools aren't inherently unsafe.

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

We did not ask people to design whole exhibits and hand over CAD drawings so we could build them. If good ideas are easy to come by, why not let other people contribute them and focus our time on the hard work of execution? People were unsure whether they should go it alone (and try to win the whole prize) or team up with others.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Second Life 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Now that Clay???

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a bad experience working with a group of people to make a decision. And things go wrong: roles aren’t clear, timelines extend, or people disagree. Most groups of people do not self-manage well. It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that.

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