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. Tags: events event london m4change mobile. An exploration of mobile technology to advance social development and social change goals. Participants. MobileActive.org.

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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. Foot in the Door is a straightforward contributory project. The size constraint makes it easy to show lots of work and reinforces the egalitarian vibe 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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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

This collaborative research project aimed to explore two primary questions: 1) Can cross-organizational data sets be combined strategically? Responsible AI adoption Framework in Philanthropy: An Initial Framework for Grantmakers by the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. The Great Sunflower Project: sign up, they send you seeds and you send in data about those feeding off the flowers. Tags: climatechange energy sxsw events. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky. Low barrier to entry. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge.

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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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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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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. Tags: Books. In the Networked Nonprofit, Kanter and Fine show nonprofits how to harness this flexibility to pursue their mission in partnership with two billion connected citizens.&#.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend). A paper on "Evaluating participatory, deliberative, and co-operative ways of working," put out by the InterAct group in England.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The program operates like a camp that is co-led by the teens involved.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project. Key is a participatory development process. A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project. See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. Institute for Strategic Clarity, March 15.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 Tags: Networked Nonprofit Organizational Culture. I’m often asked for practical advice on how to move past the fear. Opening up [.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation.

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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. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 9, 2006

I've also been on about participatory video on the net lately, in particular the much-in-the-news You Tube , as well as CurrentTV. Not long ago I wrote about Dan Bricklin's wikiCalc project. Project Management. Tags: nptech , resources Collaborative Spreadsheets. You can embed a spreadsheet in your site with this tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

One of the things you have to do with user-generated content -- participatory media projects is show the work to encourage others to jump in. Unfortunately, it didn't have an option for "groups" - you can only pull photos based on tags or a user. So, I went to the pool and added a unique tag to the 17 photos.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. Unlike people with paid positions, you will have the opportunity to focus entirely on creating a killer project. Please help us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Patience and consistent efforts, showing results over projects, over periods of time, and most importantly, with newly engaged stakeholders. Tags: movement building. This may as well be Sanskrit to many organizational leaders. And so you are not just asked to change the world, but also your organizations.

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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. Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

While it would not be as "raw" as initially envisioned, urging as many agencies as possible to produce actual queryable APIs with the data would have made more possibilities for truly creative visualizations and allowed new participatory applications to be built. Demonstration Projects. Tags: Government Transparency.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. nothing happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Amount of author's participation in other valued projects, as commenter, editor, etc. Types of tags assigned to it, the terms used, the authority of the taggers, the authority of the tagging system. Types of tags assigned to it, the terms used, the authority of the taggers, the authority of the tagging system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We talked about Cambodia and one of the questions was (an excellent one), what do teachers need to think about if they are doing an over the web collaborative project with a classroom in the developing world. I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

Just do it - whether submitting existing data to Data.gov, planning an API, or conducting pilot projects to transform and make data available. Tags: Government. Develop a plan - based on the priorities, develop an ongoing plan for making the data available, starting with the easiest and most valuable data. Stay tuned.

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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 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

There's a tag applied to many Museum 2.0 posts called "Unusual Projects and Influences." Posts under that tag tend to examine non-museum things, from malls to games to ad campaigns , and draw some design lessons for museums from their foreignness. Today, we look at a familiar thing: urban mass transit. People talk.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

At this conference in 2005, the backchannel was projected on the screen behind the speaker. Tags: backchannel. Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting.

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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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