Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Web accessibility isn’t just about ensuring a public-facing website is accessible, but also intranets, internal digital tools, documents, videos, processes, and the information people need to do their jobs. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process.

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Accessibility Goal Virginia Audience 71

Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2009

It lays out some ambitious steps for executive departments and agencies to take over the relatively near-term to be more transparent, participatory, and accountable, such as: Within 45 days, each agency shall identify and publish online in an open format at least three high-value data sets and register those data sets via Data.gov.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). It helps people process complex thoughts. For example, if you invite a participant to scribe, they cannot fully participate in the activity.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. For a facilitation team, you need to work in a document, but it is important like a “television script,” that identifies who is leading and what role they are planning. We had a 20 page script.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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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 Evaluation 45

Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Then there’s the fact that the plan itself can be a document that inspires and creates a visionary context for an organization, or, as I’ve seen lately, a series of work plans detailing what the organization is going to do over the next few years and how it’s going to do it. From their perspective, you should be doing that anyway.

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Challenge Strategy Participatory Roles 52

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 Evaluation 49

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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It's a working document, and we mean to put it to work planning new projects with our partners. We see our visitors as partners in actively interpreting and exploring exhibition content. We knew internally that we wanted our exhibitions to become more interdisciplinary, more participatory, and more responsive to audience needs.

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Museum Artist Participatory History 38

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. But our museum is very small, and we rely heavily on volunteers to do all kinds of things from serving food to documenting collections.

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Museum History Participatory Arts 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Twitter : A space where we can engage with the community, share ideas, ask for help, get feedback, listen to complaints, participate and mobilize people to help us with our vision of ‘a book in every child’s hand’. YouTube : Documentation of our work and to inform people about some of the initiatives we are participating in.

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India Strategy Skype Remix 99

Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference. On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. The best part: stories are so easy to come by, but so infrequently leveraged.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference. On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. The best part: stories are so easy to come by, but so infrequently leveraged.

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NTC Share Create Time 52

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. They construct wild performances in everyday settings, invite regular people to participate, and document their work well. Finally, at 3:45, after those two non-physical activities, Steve asks you to stand up.

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Instruction Instructional Nicaragua Experiment 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

The next step, of course, is to throw in a little remix and participatory media culture into it! Here's what I like about it: There is excellent documentation on how to use the tags in the wiki and the screencast. They have a volunteer " tagger " who is tagging materials and they've asked folks to help him.

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Tag Project Screencast Minnesota 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I helped them find funding and partners and time to make amazing work happen. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. These documents help us talk to ourselves and to others about what we are doing and how we can do it better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

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! Some of the key lessons we discussed were: providing crystal-clear criteria and constraints to help participants focus their work.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We look for partners who have: An understanding of and desire to help meet your community’s needs. Be available to talk with people at your events and hand out your contact information to anyone who has an idea they’d like to talk with you about or is interested in helping. Help them learn from the experience.

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Collaboration Community Tools Museum 55

Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces. There are three reasons you might value this activity: It will be fun and kind of unusual.

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Design Experiment Seattle Social 20

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. It was a shock that helped me realize three things: Participants would be honest. Check out the other parts here.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Can I help next time? For individual artists, a blog can also help sell or promote their work. Blog helps deepened expertise. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

It's also well-documented so you can do it yourself. I often think of the museum/library setting and standards of behavior as a hindrance, not a help, to participation. How could visitors' stereotypes about museum behavior and the kinds of activities available in museums be exploited to provide a radically different experience?

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2021

James Clear has written extensively on goal-setting , one aspect of which is helpful in this regard: think of your goals as competing for your attention. So keep your team laser-focused on a few key activities at all times by being vocal about all the things that you could but won’t do (at least not yet!). . They want to be achieved.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. SUSTAINABLE : Provides important resources to help the MAH thrive financially and organizationally. If you are interested in the specifics, you can check out this 6-page document about our engagement goals.

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Goal Museum Evaluation History 48

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? The Machine Project and the Hammer Museum have just released an incredible ebook documenting Machine's year-long residency at the Hammer in 2010. No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

I've been documenting lots of small bridging incidents at our museum over the past few months. For a long time, I knew I cared deeply about designing from "me to we" --inviting visitors to form social connections through participatory experiences--but I couldn't express a clear reason why. Social bridging is becoming my why.

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Community Teen Build Social 42

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

This can be an incredibly technical topic, as it focuses on the ways that platforms (online, exhibits, museums) can harness the individual activities of many visitors and create meaningful experiential outputs that connect people to each other. What "no-tech" visitor actions or interrelations reflect your participatory goals?

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? Our final task involved emailing a word document to the convenors. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. Do these examples mean you should never use wikis?

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

A new wave of digital participation platforms can help. We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. Digital participation platforms can help you make better decisions online, but they can also reinforce inequities and take up excessive time and resources.

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Online Participatory Proposal Platform 101