Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

interactive discussions. Participatory and interactive. Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcamps are local events for people passionate about using mobile technology for social impact and to make the world a better place. Each event includes. hands-on-demos. Is open to anyone with passion and interest in the topic. Participants.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

(not that this necessarily applies to Oxfam) but its super low budget by using existing infrastructure and orgs of any size could really raise their profile and provide an intense interactive opportunity for supporters this way. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. Would you design an interactive exhibit that only 1% of visitors would want to use? This is a problem for two reasons.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. In my experience, offering many different forms of participation garners more quality interactions. design exhibition Museum of Art and History participatory museum usercontent' Some with a colored pencil.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. They’re no longer “an exhibit” per se—more of an evocative design element that hints at an important story told elsewhere in the museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship. These interns work with our curatorial team to develop interactive and participatory components for upcoming exhibitions. Exciting, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. Koch Hall of Human Origins , an immersive, interactive journey through the origins of human beings and the dramatic stories of survival and extinction in the midst of earth’s history of climate change. We spent most of the day at the Smithsonian.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

When I design and facilitate meeting for clients, board meetings, or as part of a workshop, webinar or other training, I’m always looking for new ideas for facilitation and interactive processes. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

Incorporating the use of a location-based social networks seems a natural for museums, given the move towards more participatory institutions and how museums have embraced mobile. The use of FourSquare fits in with its other experiments with mobile and playing with the idea of place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

This workshop was an experiment in the interactive lecture and lots of small groups. Giving the audience a chance to interact and discuss content in full groups, share pairs, and small groups allowed for some great stories to emerge from the group. In the afternoon, I did workshop and put the audience right on the cat walk with me.

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Forum One

JUNE 6, 2024

Think like a musician Those who have played music in a band or orchestra or sang in a choir understand the profound impact of an engaged and participatory audience. Design Strategies for Long-Term Trust One powerful strategy is to create immersive and interactive experiences that invite participation and collaboration.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Democratized problem-solving: These tools can empower communities and stakeholders to actively participate in solution design, promoting a more inclusive and participatory approach. This technology is reshaping how people access information, making it more user-friendly and efficient.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 8, 2022

22NTC will feature over 180 live, interactive, and thought-provoking sessions covering a wide swath of nonprofit subjects, as well as three inspiring keynote speakers: activist and writer Alice Wong, actor and human rights advocate Angelica Ross, and author Saeed Jones. Opportunities for Professional Development.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

On June 7th TechSoup representatives Elliot Harmon, Susan Tenby, and Evonne Heyning will present in a unique Interactive Strategy event at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in New Orleans, LA ( NCVS ). Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Connect with us at NCVS or online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Develop a Multilingual Online Learning Community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

We decided to show a selection of Danny's lists in a hallway surrounded by a participatory element where we invite visitors to contribute to new lists on evocative themes ("Things we forget," "The best feelings in the world," etc.) One of the collections on display is a set of "found lists" collected by a local farmer, Danny Lazzarini.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Low barrier to entry. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. Many channels, both personal and professional.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 4, 2022

We’re talking more than 40 highly engaging presentations, workshops with interactive Q&As, roundtables and plenty of time for networking. Brands are participatory, so you create your own brand story at launch, but others define it as you grow. Here are just a few examples of the topics we have on tap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. And yet we’ve learned somethings about human interaction in the last few decades. The question is what we’ll do with those opportunities. “Start small.

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Social Media Participatory Lesson Media 95

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. Here are two observations about visitor participation: Participatory activities invite people to engage in new ways that may disrupt traditional norms of interaction. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 19, 2023

We focus on participatory, culturally-inclusive, and intersectional equity-oriented research that brings to the foreground impacted communities. We use a multi-method approach with qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods to critically examine and shape the social and technical processes that underpin and surround AI technologies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When the global pandemic hit, Russell d’Sa was running product at Medium and recognized early on that with everyone working from home, the company’s culture was impacted, affecting a lot of the interaction between employees. So much about becoming friends at work underpins how you ultimately collaborate.”. “So

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

We do this not only to stay in the spirit of the participatory engagement styles that are now emerging, but also because the findings represent only the present moment in a story that is far from concluding. Nothing is settled about how even the most relevant and impactful advocacy organizations engage constituencies or attracts resources.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Collaborative programs with diverse groups bring in a variety of visitors causing new audiences to interact and connect. This is a continual process of bonding within preexisting groups and bridging between groups and individuals who might not usually interact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.”

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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 scribe should only interact with the lead facilitator, not the group. And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 18, 2023

Visualization and education To lower barriers in understanding ML-related work, we regularly design and publish highly visual, interactive online essays, called AI Explorables , that provide accessible, hands-on ways to learn about key ideas in ML. Why does this happen and what can be done about it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 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 struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: guest blogging participatory. Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. all make it harder to engage in that kind of daily interaction – and weaken our communities. We have a good deal in common, even if we live hundreds of miles apart.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We have seven participatory elements in our current exhibitions on three floors, ranging from voting to talkback walls to an in-depth "make a memory jar" craft activity. and I hope you share them in the comments.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend). A paper on "Evaluating participatory, deliberative, and co-operative ways of working," put out by the InterAct group in England.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. It's often intended for an audience that I only barely understand through the ways they respond and interact with the work. To dress up their vacuum cleaners.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

2 Participatory Chinatown In this game, you're transported to Boston's Chinatown to view the development of new areas through the perspective of the varied citizens that make up their corner of the city.

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Impact Game Social Libya 88

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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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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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, Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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