Candid

MAY 4, 2022

A few ways funders have modelled this is by loosening deadlines, converting grant funds from restricted to unrestricted funding, and simplifying processes. . While some funders were already cultivating trust-based and flexible practices before the pandemic, more began to re-think their practices.

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Europe Case Study Fund Practice 98

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 Participatory Resource Place 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Yes, community involvement is at the heart of our shifted, successful business model. But that business model requires experienced staff who know how to empower people, facilitate meaningful participation, respond to community issues and interests, and ignite learning. What is the metaphor for participatory arts? It''s not easy.

Journal 54

Journal Participatory Museum Community 54

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

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. Even the conference itself was a model of social bridging. Each room was a diverse mix of voices, perspectives, and language.

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Museum America South America Participatory 40

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.

Celebrate 59

Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model. Certain people were encouraged to be involved in these groups to ensure that under-represented voices, especially from the southern hemisphere, were heard.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

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. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

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. Participants who felt more confident modeled generous behavior and engaged others.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

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). The comments, which were previously unmoderated, suddenly were overloaded with opportunists who wanted their voice to be heard on the YouTube homepage. Would my enthusiasm have been different?

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Participants voted on the questions that would be most important for the Brainerd Foundation to consider in its strategy: How might we adopt a hybrid model of new and old power? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

NTEN

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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Press Ghana Tanzania Zimbabwe 49

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Our archeology did not aim to uncover the hidden voice of my grandmother, but instead to begin an ongoing practice of recreation. Whenever we show and tell, we pass things between us, and in this model of sharing values we may begin to understand how museums are trusted with public commons as much as they are with public meaning.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

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. That work showed in the human voices and stories throughout the museum. Of course, these are tools of user-centered institutions!

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Museum Audience Music Arts 20

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

You see them in business models like Airbnb, right? So that’s an extraordinary model and the reason it’s been able to scale so quickly is because of new power. You have housing, markets change, you have rental markets all too and so it’s these models that are able to do that so quickly. Showing voice.

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Social Game Model Fun 22

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

But they are more importantly the face and voice of the institution to everyone online, a floor staff army of one. The more voices there are in the mix, the more the community management team can effectively welcome community members of all kinds. Projects participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Community Management Museum Aggregator 40

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Single voices represented on single labels is not scalable. There are many models as well for what we do with user-generated content in the museum. If the museum isn't in control, how can it thrive?

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Authoring Platform Museum YouTube 42

Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

But we're trying to model a kind of conversation with important people, powerful people, but particularly knowledgeable people, where we say--YOU can go up to a person with a lot of knowledge and ask him "why? To do this kind of modeling, Robert and Jad actively portray themselves as novices. So maybe it isn't just about novice voice.

Conversation 20

Conversation Arts Museum Voice 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness. While most of the voices represented are positive about a "Smithsonian 2.0"

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Slides Process Video Open 20

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. To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting.

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Conference Reflection Resource Arts 69

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. For about half an hour, hundreds of people play together, silently, as directed by disembodied voices inside their headphones. The voice tells you what to do –stand up, shake hands, play Twister, make silly shapes—and you do it.

Instructional 21

Instructional Instruction Nicaragua Experiment 21

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. Tags: children's museums design business models. But when I really think about it, all my favorites (so far) have one thing in common.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

to be a more participatory site with comment streams rampantly debating each post topic, but the reality is that my voice dominates the site. If I told you I'd created a participatory website in which 0.3% of visitors add their own content, you'd probably send me to a dictionary to look up "participatory."

Twitter 24

Twitter Participatory Broadcast Museum 24

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

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. It took blogging and developing a specific interest for me to gain the confidence and voice to know what I wanted to ask.

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Museum Participatory Boston Job 52

Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

While most non-profits are not known for technology, some are, and they are defying the traditional business models that drive technology.” Across the country, geeks inside and outside of government are developing a new model for a participatory and transparent Federal, State and Municipal governments. Data will be shared!

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Conference Government Social Media Influence 38

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

People already know how to leave voice and text messages and don't have to grapple with a comment system to do so. This was surprising given that participants were required to do a lot more to post a comment on the voicethread than on the blog: they had to register an account, have a microphone, and record their voice.

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Museum Audio Participatory Phone 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. But visitors and visitor research deserve voices in the discussion about whether photo policies are open or closed. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors.

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Museum Photo Policy Open 54

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. Once we realized that virtual exhibits would not translate directly to the real world, we transitioned to a model where the real exhibits were "inspired by" the virtual.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Is it a hub and spokes model, you have an executive group and then different spokes who cover different topics, or is it more of a linear horizontal structure? How do we do this well? So think about do we have the right people at this time? .

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Community Video Slides Survey 81

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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Impact Method San Francisco Social 125

Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

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. New funding models: spotlight on participatory grantmaking. Clearly our economic models need to be reimagined. Interconnectedness. Moving forward.

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Philanthropy Trend Participatory Europe 116

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. In fact, I find that participatory products are often more likely to reflect a formal sensibility than their traditional counterparts.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

This requires the global community to center the voices of people directly impacted by poverty in its approach and support solutions that empower children and their families. Within the report, explore the five principles these strategies follow. Implement Grantmaking Approaches That Democratize Power.

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Intergenerational Culture Accessibility Global 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Single voices represented on single labels is not scalable. If the museum isn't in control, how can it thrive?

Authoring 44

Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. You gave me support as I struggled to lead a museum through a participatory rebirth. is about participation, but I never fully succeeded in making it participatory. The response to this blog changed my life.

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Museum Reflection Participatory Attitude 27

Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

Also, it may not deliver what it might have done for participants: if our primary motivation wasn’t to make something spectacularly good, they may not have been involved in creating something of amazing quality, or have really developed their skills and confidence to be a creative voice to which others listened. The work requires flexibility.

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Arts Participatory Museum Artist 22