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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

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. Participatory and interactive. More information is below - REGISTER here. What is Mobile Tech 4 Social Change? Each event includes. interactive discussions. hands-on-demos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Participants will walk away with a set of guiding principles and tactics to develop media, events and activities that encourage connections and local leadership among your stakeholders to increase your organizational reach and impact. This session will include a presentation, discussion and small group scenarios.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. Museums and traditional institutions are not typically set up to manage participatory projects at such a high level of detail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The facilitation methods are participatory. Liberating Structures: My colleagues Nancy White and Kyla Shawyer introduced me to this participatory approach to facilitation. My colleagues, Heather McLeod Grant and Adene Sacks, have just published a new workbook called “ Leading Systems Change.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

They had their staff, local experts in the location, add tips about what was interesting for visitors in the neighborhood. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

When you teach internationally, it is important to localize your content and Tharum was able to provide many local and regional examples and tips. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. I’ll share that in my next post!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

One of the collections on display is a set of "found lists" collected by a local farmer, Danny Lazzarini. 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.)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Mississauga, Ontario: Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo. Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Naples, Florida: Social Media Surgery — Back to Basics and One-on-One Q&A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Blog and is a Santa Cruz local, joined us. So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design? My colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 We know that social media inspires fear. What's out there in the darkness that might catch us off guard?

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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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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. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

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. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world. Ultimately, she realized that the highly participatory process resulted in a robust strategic plan that articulated goals and initiatives through 2015 to stabilize infrastructure, increase participation, improve quality, and encourage innovation.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. Cultural differences can play out on local levels as well. Here are two observations about visitor participation: Participatory activities invite people to engage in new ways that may disrupt traditional norms of interaction.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are not the only people with stories to tell.

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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

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

--Elaine Heumann Gurian, The Importance of "And" Recently, I''ve been embroiled in local and national conversations about the relationship between active participation and quiet contemplation in museums. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. Staffing: We have 2.25

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Sometimes we purposefully bridge distinct groups as well such as middle-aged women from local knitting groups with young college students interested in street art to yarn bomb our stairwell for Radical Craft Night. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

Last week, the local newspaper did a really generous front-page story on my museum (the MAH) and the changes here over the past eight months since I started. Our team focused this year on just three things: making the museum more comfortable, hosting new participatory events, and partnering wherever possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

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. There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. There are the ongoing efforts to fight Swine Flu, or new successes like LiveStrong.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Second Life — TechSoup formed the Nonprofit Commons five years ago as a virtual community of nonprofits, thriving and building complex 3D interactive environments and hosting regular meetings with streaming media and a wide variety of participatory options.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . You can offer prize packages related to your brands but also partner with other local businesses to put together a prize package that will get people really excited to play! Virtual Game Night. Do you know what is fun?

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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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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local.

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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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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

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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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. Let me be frank. We have no money. We cannot pay you in dollars. This is the internship for you. Makers in the Lobby.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Amira Achouri, from an NGO in Tunisia, observed, “As the communications landscape gets denser, more complex, and more participatory, the networked population is gaining greater access to information, more opportunities to engage in public speech, and an enhanced ability to undertake collective action.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. nothing happens.

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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. And the crayon drawings on the fridge door in an exhibition of award-winning local artists? It's just fun.

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