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.”

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104

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 22, 2008

donation to the universe, is a gift. When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. This simple act, a $2.50 Why is gifting a model worth exploring?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. OK, so we made up the last couple of those prohibitions.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

It takes the kind of risks that a university art gallery should take. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. It encourages process-driven performances and art projects.

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Process Share Philadelphia Arts 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Part 1: It's What You Want In 2002, I was finishing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at WPI, a hands-on, technical university in Worcester, Massachusetts. My story is more a case of "Getting Hired: It's What You Want, How Aggressive You Are, and What Ideas You Can Offer."

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Jeremy Heimans, co-author with Henry Timms of the best-selling book “New Power,” recently spoke with Blackbaud’s Rachel Hutchisson at bbcon 2018 for a recording of The sgENGAGE Podcast. And we tell a story in the book of a video game called Star Citizen and it’s really an allegory for our time.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

You’re super involved with Cal State University. The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I’m a big believer about putting things into the universe. That could be a book topic, perhaps. It’s beautiful, wonderful when everyone comes together, but then you have so many personalities and ideas, agendas can get messy really quick.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. Over the last week, there’s been a lively discussion on the wiki about the key audiences and goal of the book, and I wanted to open that up to you (and you are, of course, welcome to join the wiki and help). And there’s a third reason.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

It clearly is a book for adults. When Touch Press was doing their planning, they identified the target audience for the book as "educated and lefty." My hope is that we can find a way to get it into the science and humanities classrooms in colleges and universities, and I am working on that. It seems to limit availability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Jessica Colaco places books in the iHub Community Library. In addition to the Networked Nonprofit , I brought copies of books from colleagues that might be of interest to local NGOs. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. Some concepts and ways of expressing them can be universal. Book Giveaways.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. Even the training of museum professionals has gotten more academic with the explosion of university-based graduate programs. No teacher is going to book a field trip to a place that is not tightly tied to school curriculum.

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