Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. They diversified the voice of immigration in the exhibition and encouraged people to share their own histories verbally. The trick is to invite many voices in many forms. Some people say it with a poem.

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Participatory Museum History Arts 45

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Achieving equitable participation…requires a commitment to hearing all voices, valuing all perspectives, and taking swift action to correct disparities of representation” (Barnes & Schmitz, 2016). Collaborate through field work and participatory practice. Seek diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Collaboration North Carolina Effective Participatory 98

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 6, 2011

In many cases, once the final project is launched, it's hard to detect the participatory touch. Not every participatory process has to scream "look at me!" But it's a shame when visitors can't experience the energy that went into the making of a participatory project--when the product of a living process is a dead thing.

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Participatory Process Museum Children 48

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 98

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. This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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Participatory Arts Audience Museum 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Global Voices is the leading participatory media room for voices from developing countries around the globe. I've the honor of being involved with the Global Voices on and off for a couple of years. So, that's why I'm hoping you'll join me and support Global Voices. I'm a donor and let me tell you why.

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Voice Global Cambodia Support 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. This way of working requires a different, more participatory leadership model and mindset that Allison Fine and I first wrote about in The Networked Nonprofit and others have written about called “networked leadership.” It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven.

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Participatory Leadership Model Skills 119

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 Participatory Resource Place 20

Candid

MAY 4, 2022

Foundations also demonstrated their willingness to support experimentation and learning by actively listening to grantees and communities; giving them more visibility; amplifying grantees’ voices; connecting more with the lived experiences of their grantees and community members; and making their grantmaking more participatory. .

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Europe Case Study Fund Practice 98

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have. But participatory facilitation can be taught. What made it so special?

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In different countries, I''ve noticed broad trends in how people feel most comfortable sharing their voice. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere. Am I sharing my voice or being exposed?

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Culture Participatory New Zealand Museum 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. I’ll share that in my next post!

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Philanthropy Cambodia Impact Learning 77

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. It showcases diverse voices. The posts are short (365 words or less) and are intended to give a personal snapshot of that individual's day.

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Participatory Project Museum Journal 34

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. Several said things like, "I was curious to see how this kind of participatory, collaborative approach would work in practice."

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 32

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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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

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? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There are many curator and museum director voices in the article, but not a single quote from a visitor who engaged in one of these community projects. The whole process of being interviewed for the story made me question the stories we tell and words we use to describe participatory work. What is the metaphor for participatory arts?

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Journal Participatory Museum Community 54

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The examples were all around us, not just in the voices of speakers but in the physical sites where we met. Each room was a diverse mix of voices, perspectives, and language. I first sensed the difference at the front door. There wasn't one.

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Museum America South America Participatory 40

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. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum Question Participatory Vietnam 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Question Participatory Museum Vietnam 49

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53

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. Shift the tone of the book.

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Participatory Museum Statistics Process 21

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

When should you turn down the invitation to share your voice? How should you make these decisions in an imperfect world where every host is using you for something, and every voice is in danger of being manipulated, misunderstood, or subverted? There are many ways for voices to get chopped and twisted.

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Participatory Museum Voice Press 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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Facilitation Train Training International 50

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. I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc.

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Global Network Participatory Netsquared 97

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. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Model Activism Activities Active 98

The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Voices That Inspire: Welcoming AAPI Luminaries to Your Stage When planning your AAPI Heritage Month event, consider inviting influential speakers and community leaders from within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community to participate. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators.

Celebrate 59

Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

As we try to raise support for 2015, we wanted to share the impact of your donation from last year, from the voices of our scholarship recipients. Who did the scholarships go to, and what was the impact of your donation? What is your organization''s mission?

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Donation Share Impact NTEN 64

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Co-created programming that represents the complex range of voices in communities, offers platforms for communication, collaboration and shared experiences that can enrich preexisting relationships while also offer a space for new relationships to form and strengthen.

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Museum Program Participatory Community 49

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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Design Participatory Children Museum 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Certain people were encouraged to be involved in these groups to ensure that under-represented voices, especially from the southern hemisphere, were heard. They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model. Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

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.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2011

As a researcher and activist for participation, I've sometimes downplayed the value of this charm because it seems like arsenal for professionals who claim participatory projects are frivolous. "Be My goal is to eventually be surrounded by the voices of our visitors--funny, sweet, demanding--so they can inspire me all day long.

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Museum Participatory Comment Sound 47

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. The voices are recorded, the doors perpetually closing. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences comfort.

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Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20