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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. Or, so I thought.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

This is the first installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Every Tuesday in June, this blog will feature a guest post examining some aspect of the book. I closed this book wondering: are cultural institutions really interested in being third places?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Source: Pratham Books. Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

The book was well received and was #1 on Amazon’s Nonprofit Books many times. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour. In order to accomplish as much as possible, I have lived many of the ideas around self-care that in our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2010

book club, where we pick a book, read it, and then I and guest bloggers write about aspects of the book that intrigue and stimulate us. The more I talk with cultural professionals about promoting experimental practice in community engagement, the more I hear that the obstacles are internal.

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Want to help substantively with the content of the book?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Note: If you have read the book and would like to write a guest post for this series, please contact me. The root of my frustration with the book is not that the project never came to fruition. The root of my frustration with the book is not that the project never came to fruition. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

Priya Parker's wonderful book The Art of Gathering shares the core principles of how to drive. Whether you dream of better meetings or you're planning a community festival, I urge you to read this book. The book explains how to host events with purpose, drawing lessons from intimate parties, mass happenings, and international summits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Unlike fellow nonprofit book nerd, Rosetta Thurman , I am way behind on my nonprofit book summer reading list. My blog is the July 15th stop on Clay Shirky’s virtual book tour for his recently published book, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in A Connected Age. Tags: Books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Since the theme this year was “Change Making,” I taught a workshop on self-care for change makers based on my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , co-authored with Aliza Sherman. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Putnam, who has written extensively about social capital in American society in his book, Bowling Alone. The value of participatory experiences is epitomized in FIGMENT , a free, creative, participatory, non-profit, community art event.

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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). Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. One thing I noticed during the meeting is that I was sitting more than I normally would because of the video and the cultural norm having the video on the whole time. So many times we book an hour meeting when we don’t need the whole hour and then we fill the time.

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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). Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. This approach is not about counting dollar signs, but about feedback loops which is discussed in Michael Quinn Patton’s new book on Developmental Evaluation.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

I'm also always interested in how the national media portrays changes in the cultural sector. This list doesn't include many approaches that I see transforming museum audiences, like political activism, multilingual programming, intergenerational events, or cultural festivals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

This morning Allison Fine and I got up extra early for a Bagels and Books Event for The Networked Nonprofit at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service here in NYC. At book events, one of the most common themes we hear from nonprofits is about the fear that organizational leaders have about social media. Opening up [.].

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

I was reminded of this "care, then act" framework when I saw a recent story about a student's experience at a powerful issue-driven exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, Half the Sky. This exhibition about oppression of women worldwide is based on the book by the same title by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl DuWunn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

government and encouraging participatory democracy. million players’ in-game actions into real-world donations totaling $500,000, providing 250,000 books and $198,600 for fistula surgeries. Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) is a critically acclaimed video game and interactive record of Alaskan Native culture.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. She's currently working on a book on measurement with KD Paine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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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. open to anyone (minimize cultural bias). Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

It's been an intense year - finishing the book and spending lots of time on the road working with cultural institutions. My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. The book is still open to new ideas and stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Photo by Pratham Books: Snapshots from Bookaroo 2010 : Children's Literature Festival. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I've been reading Henry Jenkin's book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide" - I ordered after I heard him speak at the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning briefing (Nancy Schwartz recently wrote about it here ) and read his white paper on participatory culture.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." When the music video was focused on Mexican culture, the researchers found that the white and Asian participants demonstrated a decrease in prejudice against Latinos, both immediately after the activity and six months later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.” ” Widad E.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Within Media Cause’s Creative, Brand, and Design team, one of our favorite things to do— besides creating incredible work for our clients—is sharing inspirational and educational resources with each other: articles, POVs, webinars, classes, books, case studies, blogs, tutorials, cheese. Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

It's a little living room in a lobby area that invites people to lounge on comfortable chairs, leaf through magazines and books related to art and Santa Cruz history, and generally hang out. For me, the goal is for people to have an enjoyable, educational, cultural, social experience. People love petting zoos.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

Steve's book is due out in December, 2009, and while it doesn't focus exclusively on nonprofits (or one camera), judging from the sneak peek at the draft - it's a must read. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. Editing Software.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ). 19 Free Webinars for Nonprofits - November 2009 on Wild Apricot Blog.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

Many of the talks are related to The Participatory Museum and I will have books for sale on all of these forays. And then throughout the rest of the conference I'll be throwing frisbees, trying craft beer, and selling books out of my back pocket. Oh, and learning something--hopefully from you. April 22/23 - Washington DC.

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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

APRIL 28, 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 struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. The question is, "would you recommend this book to someone?" instead of what is?)

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Particularly in an age of cultural and political division, Bedoya argues that leaders in the arts need to responsibly and boldly intermediate among many voices, using a combination of ethics and aesthetics to make policy and artistic decisions. Turns out we're a lot more alike than I thought at the time.

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