Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. The project was linked to a larger exhibition, Santa Cruz Collects , about why local folks collect things. He creates a visual representation of his story. He puts it on the wall. What was it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The facilitation methods are participatory. HyperIsland -Hyper Island is a creative business school in Sweden with a unique approach to learning that focuses on collaboration, creativity, and learning-by-doing. Each method provides step-by-ste instructions, examples, templates, and additional reading links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’ll be sharing insights on my blog as the project unfolds — it is going to be a rich opportunity for learning because it is a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. This allowed each of us to share what we’d like others to know – what we bring to the project and what we’d like to learn.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. A few weeks ago, the MAH Director of Community Programs, Stacey Garcia, came to me with an idea. She painted some cardboard black and framed it to look nice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. The design was to share this learning was amazing. Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. That letter didn’t come until after we’d talked about it in our local paper.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

First, we learned that during the pandemic, European foundations engaged in both local and cross-border giving in new ways. Some foundations that lacked experience in local giving began investing more in communities, while others engaged in cross-border giving to show European solidarity.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Description: Sustainability requires doing more with less, constantly learning how to get more out of every pound of material and watt of energy. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. There are only a number of ways we could be directing people’s efforts into local efforts and promoting clean energy at home.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Digital Media and Learning Conference. Digital Media and Learning Conference. Digital Media and Learning Hub / Irvine, CA / $175. State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. State/Local.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. I thought I'd add a few of the little things we've learned about visitors (and ourselves) through our monkeying.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

. # 5 Macon Money Macon Money is an innovative project that aimed to unite social, racial, cultural, gender, and economic gaps - all while boosting the local economy! When two bonds are put together, they can be redeemed for goods and services in local businesses. Everyone wins!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Peterborough­, Ontario: Keep on Learning — the Technology of Training Stakeholders. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Mississauga, Ontario: Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo. Mukono, Uganda.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Today, MVP is a network of 120 statewide and local organizations—together forming a base of more than two million voters of color and young voters engaging in a multi-year strategy to address the root causes of poverty and injustice. Power building is a marathon, not a sprint Power building doesn’t happen overnight.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

2020 is the year we were all stuck at home and the year most of us decided to learn a new hobby or skill. Why not take that learning all the way into the new year with a virtual New Year’s Eve cooking class? Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. The MAH’s historic Evergreen Cemetery brings together the Homeless Services Center and MAH volunteers or the local rugby team to collaboratively restore the cemetery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. Both posts influenced this speech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

All the planning was ahead of me to deliver on our mission to increase investment in the social sector, improve partnerships – particularly between local actors and their supporters – and provide support for strong, resilient and impactful nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Their space is designed for local nonprofits to connect, share ideas and develop solutions together. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience.

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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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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. Working for a non profit, I had very few resources, and I didn't speak the local languages well enough to gather the stories alone.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. Working for a non profit, I had very few resources, and I didn't speak the local languages well enough to gather the stories alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools.

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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. She learned of the Zeynep Tufekci from a tweet by Ruby Sinreich who she has only met in person a handful of times, but follows her on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

But, not just skills training, but learning to understand the impact of connected society and transformation. Co-create narratives with global partners that are based in local voice and respect for local communities, and invest in building networks that aim at community vitality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

At Beyond Broadcast Conference keynote, Henry Jenkins , used the term " astro turf " to refer to "participatory media" made by big business. His job includes strategic planning, launching and maintaining web sites for the International and some locals. Well, this example is no astro turf. It's the real thing.

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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. In other words: I have a lot to learn from him. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined.

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Candid

MAY 15, 2024

At the Honnold Foundation, we had been working in partnership with grassroots organizations for some time before we learned that there was a term for the kind of grantmaking we do: trust-based philanthropy (TBP).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2012

Participatory history programming. Over the past year, we've found it fairly easy to invent and sustain participatory art and craft projects. I'd love to learn more about what other organizations are doing to invite casual, active participation in history. I just care about having good conversations and learning from each other.

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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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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

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. A few things I learned/observed/was impressed by: A spirit of inclusion, generosity, and welcome permeated the event.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

If you are working with us as an artist or contributor to an exhibition, you should expect that museum staff will create multi-modal, interdisciplinary, participatory, immersive, and social experiences around your work. We challenged our partners, they challenged us, and we all learned a lot from the experience.

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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). Handy, F., & & McDougle, L.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. And then I started learning about the situation at the Museum of Art & History (MAH) in downtown Santa Cruz. I wanted to be part of that, and I can't wait to get started.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

There’s all kinds of videos and stuff that you can interact with there if you want to learn more about us. Participation is the path to learning. And inquiry stance, we’re learning together. But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning. It’s great.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Short story: we learned a lot. What did we learn? This project wove together many different participatory threads. The lessons I learned from Lost Childhoods are at the heart of the OF/BY/FOR ALL project we're building now. We wrote a toolkit about our process. You can download it for free right now.

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