Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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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. Non-Participation 6.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The examples were all around us, not just in the voices of speakers but in the physical sites where we met. Each room was a diverse mix of voices, perspectives, and language. I first sensed the difference at the front door.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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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. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. How can we use them as a test of how things are going at the conference? How can we play further with the distance between those up there - on the podium and those in the audience?

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JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Voices That Inspire: Welcoming AAPI Luminaries to Your Stage When planning your AAPI Heritage Month event, consider inviting influential speakers and community leaders from within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community to participate. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Avoid too much cultural jargon.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

And the final thing is that the outputs of these AI modelswhat you get out of something like ChatGPT or what you get out of any large language or image or video modelis not a thought or a work of art or even a human sentence that has been spoken. Is this an honest way of speaking to you? Theyre all dark inside. Theres no awareness.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

We use language throughout the tour to encourage the interpersonal, e.g. “make eye contact with two new museum friends.” It allows a little more freedom, and it also gives people many voices and personalities to engage with. comfort interactives participatory museum programs Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. Small museums, which are most likely to cultivate local, distinctive voice and approaches, often have an inferiority complex. They may feature community gardens or exhibit labels in languages tailored to locals. It's not their size or type or subject matter.

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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. The motivation behind it is the same: the body language equivalent of saying "you should look at this.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. We don’t have the language to talk about drug abuse and really aren’t equipped to be able to help them live a healthier lifestyle and address chemical use directly. How do we do this well? We’re ready to do this, Julie.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Yes, the Exploratorium is also present in these arenas as a "talker" (more on that next week), but it is just one voice among thousands. Here are three examples of changes you could make: Change the language and presentation of comment cards. Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing participatory museum.

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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. They show the possibilities of text in our spaces, and the ways our writers are using language to include (rather than exclude) audiences.

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

Posted by Marian Croak, VP, Google Research, Responsible AI and Human-Centered Technology The last year showed tremendous breakthroughs in artificial intelligence (AI), particularly in large language models (LLMs) and text-to-image models. Another key part of our ML work involves developing techniques to build models that are more inclusive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

They also started small and low-cost with the automated phone call system: instead of taking the time and money to build out interactive voice response technology, a Fasal team member recorded the “automated” voice behind the phone by reading call scripts. Ashley Meyers, Code For America (Development and Engagement Manager).

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