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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

When I design and facilitate meeting for clients, board meetings, or as part of a workshop, webinar or other training, I’m always looking for new ideas for design and processes. The facilitation methods are participatory. Often, we get stuck in meeting design ruts where we blindly follow the same template or recipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. These skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a meeting, workshop, or conference. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Organizational Development.

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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. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Participants will walk away with a set of guiding principles and tactics to develop media, events and activities that encourage connections and local leadership among your stakeholders to increase your organizational reach and impact. Workshop: Using Community Organizing for Effective Online Campaigns.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

During a workshop on museum visitor participation, someone spoke up and objected: "this might work in California, but it will never work in Texas." I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere. To pose with them.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

They host public co-making events, invite groups to book workshops directly, engage on twitter and tumblr , and encourage drop-in participation. It''s clear from the diversity of activities, the professionalism of the scaffolding, and the forms of access that they are serious about inviting meaningful participation in the Re:Make project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. The Happy Healthy Social Change Activist: Passion for a Cause without Burnout Workshop. Teams worked on their zines until the end of the camp.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Scene: a regional workshop on arts engagement. Engaging people actively in the arts. PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? High participatory quality, low technical quality. Engaging new people. Engaging more diverse people. Any questions? One, from a museum director. TECHNICAL: is it masterful?

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum. If it takes a staff member 5 hours to run a screen-printing workshop, it takes her ten hours to run it twice. This is the participatory platform model. Instead of staff running workshops, our staff connect with local printmaking collectives.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Assess and Respond to Community Assets and Needs If you want to activate community engagement in your programs, you first need to work together with your communities to determine their diverse needs, assets and interests. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

This is a session where you’ll be an active participant in your learning and will leave ready to apply lots of practical tips and techniques that will give your trainings more impact. 8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. Instructional Design. Getting Past Resistance.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

The experiment is a multi-step activity in which you talk to strangers, get strangers talking to each other, and then build a social object that mediates conversation among strangers (more here ). Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. He doesn't do workshops. But not the dog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

The format, the physical space, and network weaving activities were extraordinary. In the afternoon, I did workshop and put the audience right on the cat walk with me. This workshop was an experiment in the interactive lecture and lots of small groups. I wish I could have stayed for the whole conference, but alas.

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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. The activities had a really low barrier to entry.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Good Pitch is an effort that brings documentary filmmakers together with a wide range of partners in distribution, financing and outreach for activism.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Digital Activism was one of several books I gave to my friends at iHub in Nairobi. Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change , Mary Joyce, Editor. Digital activism is defined by the Meta-Activism Project as “the practice of using digital technology for political and social change.&# 6. ShareThis!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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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. When you have four facilitators, you want to make sure that you choreograph each activity. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

Among other things, I led a workshop on "social objects" --artifacts and exhibits that inspire people to point, discuss, snap photos, and generally share their experience both with friends and strangers. There are two parts to the workshop: Social Object Hunt. What's the value of this activity?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. We only did two rounds of these, but they were very active and I think a lot of people were surprised to find them so useful even though they were organized on the spot.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

actively sought out community needs to respond to. The other Fridays will be for more singular workshops, talks, and performances. The same is true for Saturdays, where we will continue to have a monthly formal family art workshop but add in drop-in programming on the other weekends. Right now, all we do is count people.

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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.” Museums may offer a unique range of resources and support to civic groups that are hoping to organize workshops or public conversations.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. We partnered with the Northwest Film Center to conduct workshops with community organizations around personal object storytelling. interview Museums Engaging in 2.0

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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! They are also doing in-person training workshop s. I need to look a little closer, but I think there is already a comunity there - through their forums and other activities. Let's examine this as a community-driven tagging project.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. The cards were a brilliant touch--they helped structure the day, supported simple prioritizing and sorting activities, and gave participants with a tangible, reusable take-home. The good news? The bad news?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

I'd heard before about Riverside's development, which involved many community focus groups, workshops, and talkbacks. It wasn't a destination or a set-aside place of respite; comfort and social activity were at the very center of the building. When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine activities that actually encourage you to spend time on said beach. Imagine workshops led by inspiring rock stars from gaming, festivals, and special effects. There will be discussions, workshops, immersive activities, and plenty of time to relax and seduce the creative genius inside you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I first discovered the organization about a year ago when I taught some workshops in India. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. Like my friend Gautam John , I’ve been an advocate and donor to Creative Commons. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. | View | Upload your own.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I'd spent years leading workshops around the world as a consultant. The end of an event is one of those moments when the host has to actively practice leadership (and often abdicates). I knew that I didn't want to replicate the droning report-fests I'd encountered in other jobs. The weird thing is that that wasn't true.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I designed electricity workshops for families. Anna had been the founding Curator of Education at the National Building Museum, led the Rolling Rainforest project, and was a real innovator in developing in-depth participatory design experiences with community members (though I wouldn't have used those words at the time).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

For our Art That Moves event, our Membership and Development Director suggested the incredibly popular Tarp Surfing activity. When you give collaborators more of your time, they will feel more confident about their role in the event, their project/workshop/demonstration will inevitably be stronger and your visitors will be happier.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. We partnered with the Film Center to conduct workshops with community organizations around personal object storytelling. How and why did Object Stories come to be?

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