sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. But, monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) frameworks and approaches may not be as objective as they seem.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 93

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

How do you measure the value of that experience? Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff.

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Participatory Evaluation Project Museum 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Extra credit if you read the Our Museum evaluation (or its summary ) as well. The evaluation additionally called out some faulty assumptions in program design about leadership and staff continuity throughout the multi-year process.

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Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects. There are several good resources on evaluating participation. If your institution says it is bold and fearless, how do your programs support that?

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. Paul has suggested that this metric—pointing—may be a valuable evaluation measure of a particular kind of engagement.

Design 21

Design Participatory Social Museum 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I believe in transparency in all language use--whether the words are familiar or new. This is a big year for us in naming and evaluating our work. In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. evaluation Museum of Art and History'

Goal 48

Goal Museum Evaluation History 48

Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you measure success? We''ve started using a very simple measure: the number of people who actually respond to the prompt. The measure of whether people respond to the prompt appropriately is really a measure of us, not them. It measures whether the design of the talkback is sufficiently clear and compelling.

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Test Museum Participatory History 43