Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

He casts the whole idea of a great jazz jam in the context of the tragedy of the commons--like a poetry open mic, the jazz club is a community whose experience is fabulous or awful depending on the extent to the culture cultivates and enforces a healthy participatory process. participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion'

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). One of the things I always focus on in participatory exhibit design is ensuring that everyone has the same tools to work with.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

of other projects. According to Shirky, the three elements for success for a open, participatory projects online are: 1. The same goes for projects like these. It’s a great video, and only around 10 minutes long - watch it. What do you think?

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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. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki.

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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. Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place.

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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. How did this project get started?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. Techies knew about the project first and were most likely to sign up for early dates on the calendar.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

." Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS » Most Significant Change (MSC) – "The most significant change (MSC) technique is a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation. It is participatory because many project stakeholders are involved both in deciding the sorts of change to be recorded and in analysing the data.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

The project is commissioned and supported by NESTA , an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. Project objectives: • To develop a transferable model for amplifying a diverse city’s grassroots innovation capacity through connecting diverse communities through key individuals. • Technology cards. Roles cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. Diminish pet projects. What participatory techniques have you translated from in-person meetings to online meetings successfully? Build consensus. Step 1: Set up the vote.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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Charity Village

JULY 20, 2023

As part of the Community Climate Transitions Innovation Fund, Tamarack Institute is offering funding for six climate-related projects in communities across Canada. Eligible projects will help communities mitigate and/or adapt to climate change, focusing on innovative, participatory, equitable, and multisolving approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This post takes a quick look at the the Voters project as a tagging project to glean some learnings. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard." The next step, of course, is to throw in a little remix and participatory media culture into it!

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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

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

If you are interested in mobile technology and its application for social change projects, this is definitely an event to check out. Participatory and interactive. In short, Mobile Tech 4 Social Change camp is: A one-day event in London on May 23, 2009 at Vodafone. Is open to anyone with passion and interest in the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads and it captures. New power is made by many.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

The AI Education Project provides AI-powered resources that streamline lesson planning and integrate AI literacy into classrooms. By adopting equity-centering frameworks for AI exploration, funders can ensure that equity considerations remain front and center in AI projects. Fund accessible AI initiatives.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy that aims “to expand people’s power to make government decisions.” It’s time for nonprofits and foundations to upgrade our digital decision-making tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. This is very cool. Uck.They still don’t get it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

In 2010, I launched the Networked Nonprofit with a flurry of speaking and training gigs literally around the world, while also designing and facilitating many workshops, peer learning groups, and coaching grantees as Visiting Scholar. I now look forward to further refining curriculum and workshops over the coming months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

To help please vote for the Carpets for Communities project in an online charity competition by going to www.votechildren.org (it will redirect to our main website) and following the instructions to register and vote. More details at www.carpetsforcommunities.

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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. Tags: participatory museum Quick Hits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The panel session about innovation shared lessons learned from both Google employees who were working with projects as well the nonprofits. There was also a fantastic panel discussion on the way to apply Human-Centered design to AI projects and its importance. Clearly, the challenge was more than just the technology.

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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. But there were 52 people who spent several hours working on the project as content reviewers or copy-editors.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

This collaborative research project aimed to explore two primary questions: 1) Can cross-organizational data sets be combined strategically? Our special collections offer deep dives on topics like democracy , climate change , participatory grantmaking , and more. Dollars and Change by GivingTuesday, Network for Good, and Candid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are also nonprofit specific facilitation tool kits like this one for international development projects. I like to avoid being stuck in the same techniques and am always interested in expanding my toolkit. Participatory Gatherings. That’s why I love looking and testing different methods. Strategic Dialogue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. Annie Leonard , the director of The Story of Stuff Project , shared a rich story about they have built a global network of activists around the film.

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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? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. Storytelling Project is an experiment in collecting community feedback. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. Trust-Based Philanthropy Project. Community-based participatory research. Philanthropy is at a turning point. Here are 6 ways it could go.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. I couldn't drop the project for months or abandon it entirely. Check out the other parts here. But that didn't matter.

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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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