Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Develop a "question of interest" that relates to your content.

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Technique Question Design Develop 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. It starts with ideas and brainstorming. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful.

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Social Media Content San Antonio Strategy 50

Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

They reflect these very large volumes of data that come from past thoughts and past interactions. Most people dont feel like they know what theyre doing at the beginning, because it requires you to exercise your virtues in a totally new situation.

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Reflection Model Technology Train 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. Next we did a series of small group exercises for participants to identify their stress triggers and reactions to stress.

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Causes Change Social Museum 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Discovery Exercise (from 23 things ). Discovery Exercise. Discover Exercise. Discovery Exercise: 1. Discovery Exercise: 1. Additional Exercises. Here's how to search on Technorati. Here's an example from the Red Cross.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2016

However, its staffers also valued a participatory approach and wanted to be sure include their field partners, staff, board, and more. Try out different exercises to better understand what people like and don't like, and to gauge the differences and similarities in your stakeholders' goals and visions. Facilitate.

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Design Tips Participatory Process 36

Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. This makes the interaction feel "safe" for both parties.

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Participatory St. Louis Museum Interaction 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. In this way, the MP3 experiment is an example of the ways that technological barriers can become benefits by mediating otherwise uncomfortable interactions. The MP3 experiment is an exercise in following instructions.

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Instructional Instruction Experiment Nicaragua 21

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

I learned new vocabulary and questions to ask myself and others, but the exercise itself felt a bit frustrating and haphazard. This relationship bit helped me think about how different kinds of folks will be involved with a highly participatory, community-co-created project in the long-term.

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

It's a good writing exercise to see if you can write anything of substance in 720 words or so (I encourage you to try it). We rarely offer alcoholic beverages, comfortable seating, background music, or free admission to go with the art, lectures, and interactive experiences now available in many hybrid retail spaces. But one page!

Museum 20

Museum Library Participatory Web 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

The club members believe in the health benefits of laughter, and they engage socially in several laughter exercises: laughing at each other, laughing with tongues sticking out, laughing while shaking hands, and so on. You may find that your own willingness to interact with the city in new ways varies linearly with relation to your Score.

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Program People Museum Lecture 20

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. And think about, you know, feel free to grab a piece of paper right in front of you, put it down, I want this to be interactive for you, and take some notes. I think it’s a good exercise to pick up a strategic plan and look at it quarterly or annually.

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Community Video Slides Process 110

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. And, well, the whole exercise was depressing. The idea of interactives in the galleries (alongside collections) are now not novel or very controversial.

Museum 21

Museum Work Social Media Audience 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Learning Lecture Experiment Classroom 93

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

Many exhibit developers create thoughtful interactives intended for all ages and then discover that old familiar pattern--kids engaging while parents stand back and watch. It's possible--likely even--that today's adults are more motivated by interactive experiences than generations past. And herein lies the self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Interaction Design Museum Participatory 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction. Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo.

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Learning Classroom Student Classes 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I did a lot of adjusting in real time and was very transparent with the group about this idea might get “lost in translation&# or “not be relevant&# and that’s okay. I designed share pair exercises that incorporated reflective questions about translation. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion.

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Kenya Network Nonprofit NGO 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Here’s the description: Hands down, this is the most interactive session you will attend at 16NTC! It has been a pleasure to co-design this session with knowledgeable and smart colleagues who are as obsessed with instructional design and interactive exercises as I am. Flexible Space: Designing for Interaction.

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Training Train Instructional Design NTC 50

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect. There was even a small interactive space outside the exhibition set up to look like a traditional photo studio, with backgrounds and props, so you could make your own 1920s-style portrait.

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Museum Technique Social Taiwan 41

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Thank you to everyone who came and helped co-create an exciting experimental event in a beautiful city.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Audience development is not an exercise in concentric circles. We want to cultivate a more diverse audience, especially younger people, and we want to do it authentically."

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2008

Is it just an exercise in giving visitors a fake voice? In some ways, I wonder if this isn't the next age of imaginative play in museums--moving from letting people construct fantasies based on objects and interactions to those based on speculative questions. Tags: participatory museum usercontent inclusion. All of you.

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Question Museum Participatory Voice 20