Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. While Nina’s book is geared for the museum sector, there are lots of useful frameworks, tips, and stories that can teach all of using social media about how to effectively engage our stakeholders using social media and other channels. You can pick up a copy here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the. way to the future? To me the big difference lies in the integration of social. its successors will have integrated personalization, networking toolsets, self.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. Well Being: This relates to all the curriculum, writing, and teaching I do around The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and Leadership Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I was teaching Web1.0 These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

The most skill to teach novice users I think is shooting tips and how to moment capture or only shoot footage that requires minimal editing. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. Now back to the FLIP camera. The editing software is very simple and perfect for modest needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. And I'm teaching my kids about Creative Commons too. That's why I remixed the fundraising widget on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign. I've reaped the benefits too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

My social media plans for 2010 involve 1) developing my own knowledge and skill set, 2) helping to develop a strategy for my organization- Metro United Way in Louisville, KY - and 3) teaching within my organization to develop the knowledge and skills of others. and externally (with all of your fine readers!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I figured out that I could offer teaching, training, consulting activities online. Since then, I've incorporated as Vision2Lead and started teaching online for Capella University. whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really. As for the gentleman teaching music and media: The day that I can recommend GIMP and Audacity over Photoshop and Garageband will be a wonderful day indeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. They have built an authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Our strategy has relied upon being part of a larger mission, providing meaningful and valuable content, curating information and content for the community, using a legal framework that allows for a participatory culture and lastly, in time, providing a space for the community to assist in the mission by creating content themselves.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. And I teach Board Development and Grant Writing for the program. So every time I present or teach, I like to be really clear about what we will be talking about, what the outcomes for the session are.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” We are a community of museum bloggers who write from a variety of perspectives and museum disciplines. inclusion'

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I've written before about the difference between participatory processes and products , but this question of frameworks and sensibility is more broadly applicable to community engagement strategies. In contrast, The Public School has a democratic framework--anyone can use their website to propose a class she'd like to take or teach.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

I've learned a lot from attending and teaching workshops this year. Develop compelling, powerful participatory offers and promises for your prospective partners. Tour MAH participatory exhibitions and shadow MAH community events. Get a crash course in social capital theory and ways of measuring community participation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

We also developed Experimonths about trading objects, matchmaking and electronically racing across the country , where the data and/or purpose are less defined -- but we trust it will surely teach us something, even (or especially) if it fails. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of the goals of the giving day is to improve the local skills and capacity of nonprofits in online fundraising, and I was impressed at the level of knowledge in the room. (Having 300 people and doing a participatory style of teaching gave me an opportunity to use some of my facilitation techniques for large groups that are in my tool set – (..)

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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. ” It might suggest the need for professional development in teaching skills of up managing or being more assertive. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Regulars teach newcomers how to behave and reward other regulars with close friendship. Third places are more participatory and offer fewer basic amenities than most cultural institutions provide. Third places facilitate engagement among patrons, whereas museums and libraries deliver services to patrons.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

As John Holt wrote, "Learning is not the product of teaching. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. As museum professionals, or educators, or librarians, or humans who want to support learning, it's not our job to teach people everything.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. Step 3: Teach people how to start bookmarking! Maybe it is more like moment capture.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

I’m teaching a course on social technology at the University of Washington Museology program this spring, and we’ve decided to open up a FREE workshop on participatory design for museum practitioners and other students on the afternoon of the 24th (thank you, UW). Free workshop on topic of your choosing—Friday, April 24 in Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. To get people in the mindset for brainstorming, I lead them through a couple of improvisation exercises that teach acceptance and openness to new ideas. Participants were encouraged to focus on quantity of ideas and not to self-edit.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that features social objects , that is, exhibits or artifacts that inspire interpersonal dialogue. There are three reasons you might value this activity: It will be fun and kind of unusual.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Experience working with a wide variety of age groups or teaching in general. Their enthusiasm and commitment charmed us and aligned with our social bridging goals. We invited them to set up the day after we met them and they’ve been Friday regulars ever since. Good communication skills and are kind and friendly.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

In the best of these situations, visitors are naturally inclined to spontaneously teach others how to use exhibits or share what they see--happily taking on a complicit role of friend and helpmate. Tags: Talking to Strangers participatory museum comfort. And the community feeling happens in a way that feels natural and visitor-driven.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Urban Sprouts School Gardens - a program that teaches youth to plan, grow, and eat vegetables from a school garden. For teaching and learning. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I could practically teaching this class. It’s beautiful, wonderful when everyone comes together, but then you have so many personalities and ideas, agendas can get messy really quick. How do we do this well? Move aside, Julie. I appreciate that as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Training & Facilitation: I have been facilitating online meetings for many years and when the pandemic hit, I was very busy teaching these techniques to nonprofits around the world. My Three Themes: Resilience: This theme relates to all the curriculum, writing, and teaching I do around The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces. This accomplished a few things: I didn’t have to trash my plans and revert to a traditional lecture. I made it participatory so participants helped move the furniture. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. That’s why I always enjoy teaching in flexible classroom spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I don’t teach that way. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. Cultural Norms Around Instructional Delivery: I had learned that instructional delivery in Kenya tends to be very formal, mostly the “sage on the stage&# lecture approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I’ll leading several workshops on The Networked Nonprofit. I’ll be co-teaching with Mary Joyce, Jessica Dheere and Mohamad Najem and working with an amazing group of people from six Arab countries. 2) Networks are participatory. They can get millions of people to help, not just paid staff. (3)

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end. No one planned the love locks, but their success is rooted in the same principles that make all the best participatory projects work: it requires no instructions beyond its own example. Nor are they historic.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. I'm reading a book of essays about how to teach written by teens. Be personal. It's very relational.

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