Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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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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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. We blatantly borrowed the brilliant technique the San Diego Museum of Natural History used to write labels based on visitors’ questions. Visitors have gone to town, writing both basic questions (“who made them?” “who how did they ride the plank?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. As we have seen over the last decade, with the power of connectivity comes the opportunity for people with similar interests to come together and organize themselves in ways that transform geographic boundaries. These are key questions of our times. It downloads and it captures.

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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. Scientists design the test questions, steer the data collection, and analyze the results. Science has an answer.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Before going on, let’s answer the question, “What does it mean to ‘steward’ a donor?” Get them moving on behalf of your charity with participatory fundraising. Yet when I was writing that article, it was an afterthought, just like it is for far too many charitable organizations, though it shouldn’t be. What is Stewarding?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. 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? Or just keep your ears open.

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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. People could take the pastports home or hang them, open to a preferred page, on a clothesline.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

One of the questions that comes up most frequently when I talk with folks about participation is: what should we do with the things that visitors create? This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. What's the "use" of visitors' comments?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition showcases collectors from throughout Santa Cruz County--people with collections from animal skulls to dryer lint to priceless historic flags. The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. As always, I welcome your questions and comments.

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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. I love this question. First, what do the right questions look like?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 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 struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. I love this question. First, what do the right questions look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. ” While the specific topics will emerge from the people in the room, impact leadership is focusing within, people, processes and plans to help the org reach it’s mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. Participatory Gatherings. It helps people process complex thoughts. Strategic Dialogue. Networked Facilitation.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

It is barcamp style, so come with your questions and topics you want to talk about; come meet lots of others interested in leveraging mobile technology for change and collaborate! 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.

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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. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Documentation of the Visioning Process. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The design challenge was: How do we come up with concrete tools, frameworks and methods for helping people better understand and adopt network systems leadership? Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. Until one day, x happened: 5.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

As of December 2024, you can search and download over 35,500 such resources about efforts to improve the lives of people in their communities and beyond. This research provides an overview of the effects of industrial food animal production, including the ways it affects people, animals, and ecosystems globally.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. Our interns include undergraduates, graduate students, and people of all ages looking to jumpstart creative careers in community engagement. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship. Exciting, right?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Here are four ways you can make your funding program better for the people who will be completing it. Are any of the questions duplicative? Is there information you can get from a previous question, from a previous application, or from an outside source such as Candid? Try to fill it out yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. Like all good stories, they story of Ushahidi holds several different lessons: People want to do somethiung to make the world a better place. “Start small.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The best participatory projects are useful. The participatory activity in question is part of the new Unfinished Business gallery, a room in which the museum engages with a contemporary issue related to the passion and work of Jane Addams and the historic Hull-House activist residents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2006

Christine reports that this chicken and egg question came up: " Do people's social needs drive the emergence of new technology, or does. the emergence of these new technologies drive what people want to do? " This one well worth reading if you're interested in social software and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

She noted that you want your data to be representative of real people. She went on to say less predictable: “ People think that social change organizations should go slow and carefully. We deserve the best people and tech. I learned about the People + AI Guidebook. Well, screw that. We should move the fastest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

(See the recent article by Ali Levine " Talking with Young People, Not At Them " I was able to attend the event, but through the New Media Consortium campus because adults are not allowed in the Teen Grid. I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. s a powerful educational thing.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Concerns about authenticity, disparities in access, and biases in AI tools raise urgent questions: Will this technology help bridge societal gaps, or will it deepen them? It took years for seat belts to become standard in all vehicles, leaving many people without access to a life-saving tool. But AI adoption comes with challenges.

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Achieve

JULY 27, 2017

"Movements are built by and for the people. The people generate the movement, spread the rallying cry of the message, and depend on one another to meet the collective’s goals in addressing the social issue at hand. A story based on a vision for change for people or communities that need it most.". Why do people give?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Bridging differences: Deliberately connecting people with different perspectives. Catalyzing mutual support: Helping people directly help each other. The report asks a number of impact questions related to networked citizens and the future. How much trust or mistrust will there be?

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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. You have to remind people, keep reaching out.

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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. But I left uneasy, grappling with questions that plagued me throughout the conference. You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. You can mount challenges that are effective in spreading the word and making our message accessible to more people who can make their own decisions. Social Media Communities: as a community of thousands we can demand accountability, ask questions, etc. What is social media? -

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? Do you have a preferred method? What you know?

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Ask questions, introduce yourself, if you haven’t already. And I wonder if you just say that to keep people away because it’s so beautiful. Steven: Want to give it a few more seconds and I’ll go to the next question? Okay, so the second question, why don’t you have a strategic plan? Good job. .

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