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 Music Learning 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. While that was painful for the organizations involved, it also helped force the issue of whether participatory engagement could be core to a strong future business model for each organization or not. didn't mince words.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Well-planned events enable nonprofits, community groups, businesses and government agencies to showcase AAPI arts, food, performances, and more. Effective outreach strategies should focus on connecting with local AAPI groups, leaders, and community centers. Reach out to Asian American student groups on college campuses as well.

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Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection to one another.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. Ideally, you’d run this workshop with your team, organization, community group, etc.

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Impact Community Social Phoenix 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations. The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment. Who is defining results anyway?

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Results Program Build Help 96

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. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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Rwanda Social Media Train Training 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. Britt Bravo who is also the Flickr Affinity Group wrote about Oxfam America Campaign here. It describes various sub-groups of consumer co-created content. Paid media: Old advertising model She points out why she likes the campaign: 1 ???

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Meme Participatory Campaign Flickr 50

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009).

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

As trainers, Andrea and I both know the value of “modeling the model,” so we wanted to use and model best practices for designing effective meetings on their preferred platforms. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Next, as a group we do a theme analysis. Design must comes first.

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Facilitation Virtual Arts Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum. Even a smash hit program is hard to scale up in this model. At the MAH, we've tried wherever possible to break out of unidirectional program models. This is the participatory platform model. Nine years later, I still believe this.

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Platform Impact Childhood Museum 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model. ” Paul Connolly.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The idea is that you specify your values, relationships, and assets, and then match those up with potentially fruitful legal structures, financing models, and growth potential.

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. Even the conference itself was a model of social bridging. It wasn't uncommon for a group to break into song, or for people to stand in spontaneous applause halfway through a presentation. I first sensed the difference at the front door.

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Museum America South America Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized. Why haven't children's museums pushed past the 1970s model?

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy. The mental model mapping can uncover conflict, make it discussable, and enhance effectiveness. Key is a participatory development process.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Given this, it’s not surprising that every cause marketer or corporate social responsibility professional is scratching their head as they try to reach this important group. The brain is an economic model that is always trying to gain the largest return on investment.

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Issue Brain United States Participatory 52

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.”. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes. How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation?

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. The goals need to be front and center through the entire process, particularly when the measurement approach is more new or participatory and is designed to evolve over time.

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Measure Evaluation Seattle Lesson 95

Museum 2.0

JULY 30, 2014

Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily supported by the James Irvine Foundation. The authors name the reality that one-off programs, exhibits, or shows for specific groups do little to change the mix of participants longterm.

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Report Malaysia Memphis Museum 52

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. We generated nearly 10k data points and hundreds of text-based confessionals that he''s already successfully used to model cooperative behavior and is considering publishing on it. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). In 2008, when this group was assembled, they had political backing, financial support, and an energetic approach to their work. The early participatory projects are terrific. The media strategy is impressive.

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Museum History Netherlands Create 36

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up a few times a year and host excellent programs on a variety of topics. I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). Reason #258 I'm glad to live in California: Cultural Connections.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution.

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Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. In the Zingerman's model, visioning is for everyone at all levels of the organization. If it's a vision for a group, involve others in the group in the redrafting of the vision. We shared those energizing elements with the whole group.

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Pennsylvania History Michigan Indiana 26

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

A national election is the ultimate participatory project. Advocacy groups of all stripes fall over themselves to give you opportunities to get involved, fight the good fight, fund the need, defeat the bill. The election season, as well as a recent research study on museum membership, has change my perspective on this.

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Product Build Museum Arts 51

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. Eight person needlepoint and psychotherapy groups. No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Artist Museum Project Public 39

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Jeremy: Well first, Rachel, it’s great to be here and great to be with this amazing group here in person and around the world. You see them in business models like Airbnb, right? So that’s an extraordinary model and the reason it’s been able to scale so quickly is because of new power.

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Social Game Model Fun 22

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. Click any link above to see the video from the initial pitch and final report from each group.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

Or “I love the MAH because it is a truly participatory space where diverse groups can enjoy, express themselves, and learn from/about/with others.” The MAH has an unusual business model in that part of our revenue comes from managing Abbott Square plaza and an adjacent commercial office building.

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Public Museum Arts History 27

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

At Radio Maria, Sullivan and the group used the IVR very simply, almost as a “glorified voicemail service.” The group created a special jingle and message to promote the competition. The group used similar sounding numbers for each of the networks. Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania. Listen to the jingle here.) .

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Press Ghana Tanzania Zimbabwe 49

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a good group. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. We may go through rough patches, but because we’re working together, because it’s not just dictated by a small group of people what the plan is going to be or a top-down approach, folks have worked together.

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Community Video Slides Survey 79

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness. Side note: three times as many educators filled out surveys than any of the other groups.)

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Slides Process Video Open 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A Living Library requires three kinds of people: Books, who openly and honestly represent certain stereotyped groups (i.e. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. So if I don't respond to your comments right away, it's because I'm between a rock and a. well, you know. Would you use the Living Library?

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