Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

For those who can''t see the image, the card reads: When I first saw the "pastports" I didn''t really understand, but after reading what people wrote in them I felt an overwhelming connection to all the words of so many random people. We created a "pastport" - a small booklet with evocative prompts related to identity and place.

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Participatory Museum History Arts 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

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. Over three months, about 600 people filled mason jars with personal memories and put them on display. People were spending a long time working on them. He puts it on the wall. What was it?

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Participatory Evaluation Project Museum 52

Candid

JULY 28, 2022

I’ll be honest that I was a bit nervous—this was my first work trip in over two years, and I was not sure if I was ready to be jammed indoors with hundreds of people. Conferences are great places for connection and joint learning, but the wealth of rich, meaningful information can sometimes be overwhelming.

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Reflection Philanthropy Participatory Conference 111

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time. This is where participatory practice comes in to play. Nonprofits must have a clear and compelling mission statement that states the organization’s reason for being.

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Participatory Culture Leadership Washington 98

sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Here are four ways you can make your funding program better for the people who will be completing it. Grant writers are usually juggling multiple grant applications at the same time, so keeping those details in multiple places will save them time when having to verify how yours needs to be submitted, for example.

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Application Grant Help Blackbaud 95

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 98

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The tendency of philanthropic professionals, big donors, and other relatively privileged people to assume that they know what is best for the people who are directly affected by the problems that need to be addressed. Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Here are 6 ways it could go.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Over 20,000 copies have been sold around the world.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I'm finding myself really enjoying fundraising because it is fundamentally about inspiring people to participate--and to do so in a way that is significant both for the organization and for themselves. As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization.

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Participatory Practice Fundraising Relationship 39

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. note: originally, this said "we're writing a label" but with that phrasing, lots of people wrote creative titles for the surfboards (like the title for a work of art) instead of talking about content of interest. What do you want to know?

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Participatory San Diego Museum History 48

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. In Foot in the Door , the content is so wide-ranging that it was easy for people to talk about favorites. created by visitors and contributors so we can access "in my words" content all in one place.

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Participatory Museum Arts Artist 46

The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Telling great stories helps your non-profit get its message out into the world, connect with new audiences and motivate people to take action like making a donation. Every story we tell is a serious of events that happened to a person, place or project. It’s participatory. That means it’s what we are doing.

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Story Storytelling Profit Participatory 89

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

This is the first installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. Facebook discussion board here.

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Instead she drew people personally into the stories again and again, asking us to compare our own and our ancestors' experiences to those she described. But participatory facilitation can be taught.

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Now, after long last, the book is here! Blog about it. Tweet about it.

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Participatory Museum Vietnam Netherlands 30

Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Within Forum One, and among the mission-driven organizations we work with, I sense that more people understand that accessibility isn’t a box to check, but rather an integrated part of project design and delivery. Maybe that made a whole new set of people more empathetic to the idea of accessibility. We can’t connect. Focus on content.

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Accessibility Goal Virginia Audience 78

Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Well actually, this post is about the people who participated at the highest level of engagement.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 32

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Now add a layer in your mind showing the people represented in those circles and lines. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 104

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

Qgiv

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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Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. The people at Museums and the Web are on the forefront of web-based innovative museum practice. You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Participatory Museum Web Indianapolis 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. In some instances, you might need a longer amount of time to do this exercise, but the way this was facilitated with 50 people was highly productive and efficient. There are usually two aspects of this.

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Facilitation Technique Ideas Exercise 102

sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

It’s important that you have systems in place to keep that information safe and secure. When you require information to be kept in specific places within your GMS, you’ll know what fields can be pulled into public-facing communication and which ones might contain sensitive information.

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Grant Software Management Application 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. The two worlds were placed side-by-side and participants were asked to draw arrows and label the interventions.

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Rwanda Social Media Train Training 116

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk. A strong participatory process is not a loosey-goosey, open the doors and do whatever strategy. Imagine a historic site.

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Museum Product Participatory Community 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us? Do you want people to click? To share on Twitter?

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Social Media Headline Media Social 102

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. It''s a unique opportunity to learn from people with different perspectives.

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. But people have participated in completely different ways. People like participating, we take them seriously, and they take us seriously. The participation is almost 100% on-topic and appropriate.

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Museum Difference Examples Participatory 47

The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Most importantly, they create an uplifting, celebratory atmosphere perfect for bringing people together during AAPI Heritage Month. Effective promotion and marketing strategies should focus on engaging people of all backgrounds, not just those who already actively participate in AAPI communities.

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Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

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.

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San Jose Mobile Tech Change 100

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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Participatory Arts Design Museum 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

While some of the existing programs, tools and approaches still prioritize experts and prioritize investments in groups disconnected from the communities they serve, I was heartened by the discussion taking place around Kathy Enright’s blog post on redefining effectiveness and the comments from Vu Le in his post.

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Results Program Build Help 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Model Active Activism Activities 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. Shelley notes in her post the reason why they decided to explore FourSquare: As simply as I can put this, Foursquare is about place and identifying yourself through that.

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Museum Mashup Badge Participatory 98

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

So if it’s new to you, you are in the right place. And I wonder if you just say that to keep people away because it’s so beautiful. Oh, people are voting right now. So yeah, so I see it looks like about a quarter of people don’t know what to do. So yeah, that people aren’t able to move it forward.

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 124

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. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43