Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. She is deeply entwined in the stories, in the place, and in the institutional mission, and that came out powerfully in her tour. What made it so special?

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

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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Participatory Arts Learning Music 52

Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. . Invest in, support, and learn from intermediary organizations, many of which can help you adopt participatory approaches to grantmaking. . Not reinventing the wheel.

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Guidelines Philanthropy Participatory Case Study 105

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

This is the first installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. 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. Facebook discussion board here.

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

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. Everyone was asked to share five words or “hash tags&# on sticky notes and place them on the wall. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Network Build Social Media Participatory 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. deation Conference is intentionally formatted to create a rich learning and sharing experience.

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Conference Long Beach Slides Participatory 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

The are people here from very different places. Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio. s about being able to bring together people from many different spaces and have them co-exist together and have a kind of communication that???s s possible through distance learning??? s what we???re

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Second Life Participatory Life Discussion 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. Alois Bell was a diner at AppleBee’s in St. 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It still continues to be used on Twitter as well as other places. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. This takes some facilitation. And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea. The Second C: Collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. But almost ALL of those opportunities are facilitated by people. Humans empower each other.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

This is the fifth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Both of us latched onto the popular notion of "third places," applying it to LAMs, and were surprised to learn how narrowly Ray Oldenburg defined the term in his original work. Eric: Unapologetically so.

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Place Discussion Library Museum 30

sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

With a system to help you facilitate application reviews , you can use your grants management software to schedule reminders for when reviews are ready to move to the next stage. It’s important that you have systems in place to keep that information safe and secure. Do you want to increase the number of grant programs you offer?

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Grant Software Management Application 98

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Equity Throughout One of the main reasons for embracing datamaking is that it allows us to more clearly notice the places where equitable practices can be strengthened.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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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. In contrast, the subway is often a sterile world of passing through, a place where people ignore each other studiously. We see it on TV.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible. Community members, artists, and organizations increasingly see our museum as a place where they can advance their own goals, and so they approach us.

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Museum Open Platform Participatory 41

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum Difference Participatory Arts 29

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

So if it’s new to you, you are in the right place. And so I’m going to ask you this question at the end of the hour, what is a next step that you could put into place to begin to do some strategic planning? But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

Building off of Michelle DelCarlo’s pop up museum model, MAH pop up museums bring different people, perspectives, and projects to one central gathering place, enabling a democratic type of public curation. guestpost Museum of Art and History participatory museum' What does this look like?

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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. After the winning 20 ideas were selected, each idea was posted on a separate piece of paper on the walls.

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Causes Change Social Museum 50

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Third Place: $10,000. An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. Second Place: $15,000.

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared Social 36

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Deconstructing the Social Experience As a designer of participatory experiences, my biggest question about Artprize is what made all these conversations and experiences happen in the first place. Was it the gritty urban setting? The prizes? The extreme variety of works? The crowds of friendly Midwesterners? This bore out at Artprize.

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Arts Experiment Social Museum 52

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Having two guides means we can do split stops at some places, giving some people one experience and some another. It’s made the museum experiences I facilitate more enjoyable, longer-lasting, and much more meaningful. comfort interactives participatory museum programs Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum Interview Interaction Arts 55

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2010

Stage five makes the entire institution feel like a social place, full of potentially interesting, challenging, enriching encounters with other people. A simple example: the cocktail party The best place to start conceptualizing structures for social participation is via familiar social experiences. Ideas participatory museum.

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Design Social Museum Participatory 34

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor. They were roped to very specific locations and activities.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Evaluation 31

Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. How can we improve on these models to becomes sites for participatory giving? Ideas participatory museum.

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Gift Participatory Museum Site 23

The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Try to get calendar listings and stories placed with mainstream news sources. Aim to create an inclusive, welcoming atmosphere that brings together diverse AAPI communities and builds bonds. They can help spread the word through their own networks.

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Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. " Dd has enlisted and trained local leaders program from the beginning.

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Digital Community Haiti Netsquared 36

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

As Kathy McLean observed, speakers presented several examples of places that are promoting civic discourse successfully--public radio, science cafes, Web 2.0. But all of us have experienced more informal, less well-facilitated forms of discourse. But today, I want to talk about one of the other big questions raised on Saturday: Why?

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Museum Site Facilitation Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. We almost always use nametags with a playful prompt on them ("what superhero would you be?," "what's your favorite local place to relax?" Create a structure that values peoples' participation.

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Community Build Museum Group 35

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. ” But after a few meaningful meetings, some small wins, people are starting to see it fall into place, what the plan could look like, right, what the community could look like, and that it looks like it’s going to happen. How do we do this well?

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Community Video Slides Process 110

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? A way to bring people on opposite sides of an issue to a fruitful, positive meeting place? Why on earth would someone set charged conversation in a place like a library, stereotyped as a space that abhors talking of any kind?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

It's not because the boardwalk is a social place. Out on the boardwalk, or at the zoo or a museum, there's a common experience of the sights, sounds, smells, activities of the place. It's also a reason that people will game with strangers; in that case, the games' rules form the partial barrier that facilitates social interaction.

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Museum Participatory Interaction Teen 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The design and feel of the place was different than any science center I''d ever experienced. A Community Science Workshop is a place for kids to tinker, make, and explore their world through science. In most cases, they''re not places where kids can go by themselves at all. I knew I could learn a lot from it.

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