Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. We created a "pastport" - a small booklet with evocative prompts related to identity and place. We created a simple wheel with open-ended questions about identity and place, setting it in a lounge area.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In our quest to make the public areas of the museum more reflective of Santa Cruz culture, we moved these boards from a comprehensive display in the history gallery into a main stairwell, prominently visible from the lobby and throughout the building. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way.

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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. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. . Invest in, support, and learn from intermediary organizations, many of which can help you adopt participatory approaches to grantmaking. . Not reinventing the wheel.

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Guidelines Philanthropy Participatory Case Study 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site. Here's the description: GreatNonprofits is a place to find, review, and talk about great -- and perhaps also not so great -- nonprofits.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

At this one-day founder-focused summit, which takes place in San Francisco on April 14, you’ll learn the best practices across the range of essential startup building skills from seasoned founders, investors and a plethora of subject-matter experts. TechCrunch Early Stage takes place on April 14 in San Francisco.

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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. Everyone was asked to share five words or “hash tags&# on sticky notes and place them on the wall. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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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. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? I showed up at the IMA expecting innovation.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

2 Because whats being reflected in that mirror doesnt look anything like us. Butand heres the first qualification these AI tools that are built to generate reflections of human intelligence dont reflect all of us. And a mirror can only reflect the light that reaches it. But what they do is very much like a mirror.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

So expect some live blogging, and reflections. It took place in Long Beach, CA (which has the largest number of Cambodian-Americans in the US). I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. I was invited to participate in the first inaugural !deation

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Conference Long Beach Slides Participatory 86

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. Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. Our volunteers and staff--and the participants!--rocked.

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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. Non-Participation 6.

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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. The goals need to be front and center through the entire process, particularly when the measurement approach is more new or participatory and is designed to evolve over time.

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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 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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Elsewhere is at the top of my list of places I would most like to visit. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. risk participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences' We welcome that.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

With the Virginia Department of Education’s I’m Determined initiative, we brought in key audiences at a discovery and design phase, much earlier than traditional audience testing would take place. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process.

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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. By 2009, the blog I'd started as a place to learn out loud had become the engine of my career. Now, I was writing Museum 2.0

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

So if it’s new to you, you are in the right place. And so I’m going to ask you this question at the end of the hour, what is a next step that you could put into place to begin to do some strategic planning? But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A brand is more than a logo and a website; it’s the story that reflects your values and vision, guides every touchpoint and communication, and sparks connection and emotion. Brands are participatory, so you create your own brand story at launch, but others define it as you grow.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. And that got me thinking about why I blog in the first place. Reflective time is important, especially when your work is hectic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

But let me reflect on how amazing yesterday was. In a letter to their newborn daughter, Max, they announced that they were giving away 99% of their Facebook stock to make the world a better place. We can’t treat donors like ATM machines, only asking for money. We have give gratitude and thanks and build ongoing relationships.

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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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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. Several participants reflected on how it is easy to fall into that trap and looked at beginning to schedule more time with people to build relationships that give them inspiration and energy.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

We talked to visitors and made and placed cards for about half an hour. This was reflected again in a great encounter I had at the Walter's Art Museum later in the weekend, when a silver-haired, well-coiffed lady (the perfect image of a traditional museum goer) told me "I get so annoyed by how quiet museums are. What would you do?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. The impact was dramatic.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Third Place: $10,000. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Second Place: $15,000. First Place: $25,000. We have a lot going on in many different places.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. When it comes to museums, comparable rules can guarantee that the museum remains a safe, welcoming place for visitors of all kinds. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. and my emphatic response is YES. Core Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork. This is a new perspective for many; as one put it: "until taking this course, I have never thought of, or seen it as my place to foster a common vision."

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. There was no agenda or angle in setting up the DCM, the idea was simply to create an awesome place for the community to share their stories. The DCM was a place that was part science experiment. I was shocked.and very happy. That usually did it.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. While most of my favorites are small (idiosyncrasy is easier to maintain without too many committees), some are quite large--places like the Exploratorium where a singular ethos infuses a massive facility. They are places that people point to with pride and say, "that's our place."

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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. These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. way to the future? whenever i???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

The chapter includes some great reflection questions: What stories can you share to advance your top goals? Participatory engagement invites people to answer a particular question or comment on a post. What stories does your team/company/audience need to hear to develop affinity with your organization?

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