Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

We’re proud that the MAH is a thriving museum AND community center for Santa Cruz County, a place for people of all walks of life to connect around our shared creativity and culture. 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.”

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Public Museum Arts History 27

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps.

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Evaluation Measure Seattle Lesson 95

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The Latin American delegates in Medellin reimagined change on a level beyond what I've experienced in other places. Even the conference itself was a model of social bridging. I first sensed the difference at the front door. There wasn't one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. From day 1, I believed that we needed to focus in our first year on creating new participatory events to engage the community.

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Museum Director Participatory Culture 55

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We started the summer with no money and a strategic vision to be a thriving, central gathering place. 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.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

All of a sudden, I looked at my town as a place teeming with scientists in need of play. 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.

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. Some presenters jumped at the chance to defend Jeffersonian principles through the timely release and transparency of public information. Others went on to crown the achievements from the participatory public sphere that have arisen as a result of increased access to content.

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District of Columbia Management API DC 50

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). Many of the postcards are gems that provide powerful connections to strange people and places. But there are some places where it falls short. It doesn't launch new relationships.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The design and feel of the place was different than any science center I''d ever experienced. A Community Science Workshop is a place for kids to tinker, make, and explore their world through science. In most cases, they''re not places where kids can go by themselves at all. I knew I could learn a lot from it.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

The unconference got lots of locals "in the door" who otherwise hadn't considered the museum a useful or interesting place. For the Ontario Science Center and the Computer History Museum, this is presumably considered a positive since it positions the institutions as cool places for young adults to hang out. I don't think so.

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Museum Hosting Model Community 22

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

However, I have enormous respect for the customer-centered model when it is executed in ways that truly invite visitors in on their own terms and deliver satisfying experiences. Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places. They care about visitor comfort.

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Museum Audience Music Arts 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

For most of my life in America, pro soccer was considered something risible and vaguely deviant, like picking your nose in public. I got into museum work because learning happens in many places and many ways. Who their role models are. But in the US, it has only recently become something worth watching. But now it''s everywhere.

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Arts Build United States Audience 47

Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. Why is gifting a model worth exploring? Gifting is a powerful game mechanic. Collect the e-card.

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Gift Participatory Museum Model 23

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A way to bring people on opposite sides of an issue to a fruitful, positive meeting place? They are careful to state that the Living Library is not a publicity stunt for an organization nor an advertisement for the Books involved. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. What is the Living Library?

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Library Model Museum Europe 20

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, The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 107

Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

The Nonprofit Technology Bash will be the best place to mingle and meet with folks from all across the nonprofit technology sector, as well as kick back and have some fun on the last night of the Interactive conference. The Beacon: Lounge with a Conscience! The HardlyNormal Cup of Coffee, Social Media for Social Good series.

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Conference Government Social Media Influence 38

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. The MP3 experiment is a model for how a typically isolating experience—listening to headphones in public—can become the basis for a powerful interpersonal experience with strangers. After giving you a few seconds, Steve always says, “good.”

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Instructional Instruction Nicaragua Experiment 21

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. The Spy Museum was a dream place for me. blog's popularity was a case of "right place, right time." The blog started with a conference experience.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content. In the Odditoreum such irregular actions are not only invited but modeled. They model the requested visitor contributions. Projects design visitors.

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Museum Alternative Portland Artist 22

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

As Kathy McLean observed, speakers presented several examples of places that are promoting civic discourse successfully--public radio, science cafes, Web 2.0. Others reacted hotly: do we really need to get into public debate to survive? Tags: participatory museum. Why do museums need to get in on the act?

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Museum Site Participatory Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Today, both of these models are threatened, and within 50 years they will no longer be sustainable. Why are our current models failing? If we can listen and remake ourselves into those dreams, we will finally become places for our audiences.

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Museum Library Participatory Wikipedia 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. ve ever read a post, blog entry or article in a major publication that suggested we were pushing towards divorcing ourselves from reality and physicality, and moving entirely into these immersive virtual spaces.

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Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I think it's a good thing that librarything gives me a way to talk to strangers about books that feels safer than approaching the drooling guy at the public library. social networking model to the real world, the implications of tracking, publishing, and spreading become obvious. Tags: participatory museum visitors.

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. The conference is designed primarily for executives at foundations affiliated with four-year public institutions and community colleges.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

And, there is also a Lean Start Up Conference taking place in December that I will cover on this blog, taking the lens of how to apply to nonprofit work. There arealso two Lean Impact Summits taking place, one in December in NYC and one in January in San Francisco (I’m a judge for the San Francisco event).

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Impact Method San Francisco Social 125

Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

Its network of philanthropic actors in over 30 countries collectively represent more than 10,000 public-benefit foundations. As I process the many sessions I attended and the new connections that were made, three key trends stick out: interconnectedness, evidence driven hope, and new funding models. Interconnectedness. Moving forward.

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Philanthropy Trend Participatory Europe 105

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record.

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. And they make participation more accessible by creating easier opportunities for people to engage at times and in places and languages that work for them. These features and new ones can be tailored to your needs.

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Online Participatory Proposal Platform 101

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. ” But after a few meaningful meetings, some small wins, people are starting to see it fall into place, what the plan could look like, right, what the community could look like, and that it looks like it’s going to happen. How do we do this well?

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Community Video Slides Survey 79

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Guided by an understanding that good listening is a first step towards authentic and meaningful participatory grantmaking, in 2019 CRUS began an intentional process to review its strategy and approach to grantmaking. Within the report, explore the five principles these strategies follow.

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Intergenerational Culture Accessibility Global 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

There are many different models, including The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History , The New York Met , SF Mobile Museum , and even a Pop Up Prison Museum. Held in collaboration with six different partners, taking place in six different locations, and occurring on consecutive Saturdays, each pop up expanded the overarching theme of the exhibit.

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Museum Grant Lesson History 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

This is the fifth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Both of us latched onto the popular notion of "third places," applying it to LAMs, and were surprised to learn how narrowly Ray Oldenburg defined the term in his original work. Eric: Unapologetically so.

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Place Discussion Library Museum 30

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning. In this model, rather than trying to answer a set of broad questions, you look at the spectrum of viable conditions and extrapolate useful strategies from those.

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Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. When it comes to museums, comparable rules can guarantee that the museum remains a safe, welcoming place for visitors of all kinds. There are many models as well for what we do with user-generated content in the museum.

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Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44

Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

Why and how museums could develop their co-creative practice with the public, building on ideas from the performing arts and other non-museum organisations (free to download). When an institution becomes wholly participatory, those distinctions often erode. That's not to say these structures came easy. The work requires flexibility.

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Arts Participatory Museum Artist 22