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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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Suggest Donations for Activities – Accept donations of supplies for offering engaging workshops, like arts and crafts, or encourage participants to make a suggested donation. Collaborate with AAPI leaders to ensure your programming is authentic and resonates well.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I''ve given talks and workshops about it all over the world. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Over 20,000 copies have been sold around the world.

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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. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour.

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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

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. Every time we collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organization and communication. We realize collaboration differs greatly for each individual and organization.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Museum programs need to then actively respond to their communities through a variety of ongoing discursive, collaborative and inclusive formats that address needs and assets but also invite communities to be active participants in this process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

I now look forward to further refining curriculum and workshops over the coming months. I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE.

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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. Kids frequently suffer from tokenism.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2014

Right now, we''re looking for wood chips for a creature-making workshop. Last month it was cardboard boxes for a collaborative opera. But on another level, the wishlist is the most participatory part of the newsletter. At any given time, we are on a hunter/gatherer mission for an upcoming project at our museum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. Free workshop on topic of your choosing—Friday, April 24 in Seattle. It’s a two-hour workshop to be held at the university and space is limited— go here to register. He doesn't do workshops. meet my husband and parents-in-law.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2003, my collaborator Stephanie and I began an excavation, declaring nothing for sale. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. Instead, I walked into a lush garden in the middle of the city. Birds flew through the proceedings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The creative process of making films is opening up and the outreach efforts to spark social change through documentary media are becoming much more dynamic and collaborative. The system of making and distributing documentary films is changing rapidly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In July of 2013, the MAH will host our first You Can't Do That in Museums Camp (or better name to be suggested by you), inviting 80 creative people to collaborate on an experimental exhibition. We will also offer a half-day series of workshops on July 10 for a wider audience for $50. Loyalty Lab workshop - Jan 29, 2013.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine workshops led by inspiring rock stars from gaming, festivals, and special effects. Then you should check out the Creativity and Collaboration (C2) retreat sponsored by NAME and AAM, May 31-June 2 of this year in Monterey, CA. Imagine a small enough group that you can spend meaningful time with brilliant people in your field.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

Over 800 people volunteered their talents to support our programs, with the majority collaborating on our monthly themed 3rd Friday events. These collaborators brought their own audiences along with their abilities, which introduced a lot of new people to the museum. find ways to financially support our program collaborators.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. During this period, she amassed a vast collection of inventories, filling the three-floor store, including a former 14 room boarding house, and third floor workshop.

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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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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. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet. I was teaching Web1.0

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Something tells me this is not the business visioning workshop I anticipated. Last week, I attended a workshop on Creating a Vision of Greatness at ZingTrain , the training arm of Zingerman's Deli, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. But I'm going to keep trying it.

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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. Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. ACCP: The Conference features General Sessions, Learning Labs, Workshops, The Masters’ Series and new in 2016, Connexity Live. Technology. ACCP: The Conference. ACCP: The Conference. Mar 20 - 23.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Ready to turn your institution into a site of participatory engagement? With expertise in gaming, the social web, and collaborative exhibit development, I can bring new perspectives to the way you do business across your institution. Want to bring the spirit of this blog to your colleagues and projects?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I'd spent years leading workshops around the world as a consultant. I had lots of creative formats for drawing people out, sharing stories, and working collaboratively. The weird thing is that that wasn't true. My expertise was on inviting strangers to participate in public settings like museums.

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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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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. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration. Level the playing field or tip it in their favor.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? In participatory processes, our preferred way of decision making is consensus.

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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. We developed these goals through a series of all-staff workshops. PARTICIPATORY : Invites diverse community members to make meaningful contributions as co-creators, collaborators, and energized constituents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Friday, I leave for Beirut for co-lead a series of Train the Trainers workshops as part of the E-Mediat Project , a capacity building project for NGOs to learn social media skills. It is a collaborative way of working. Annie talked about how networks focus on collaboration and action, rather than institution building.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

One of our core programming goals is to build social capital by forging unexpected connections between diverse collaborators and audience members. Family Art Workshops" suffer from anemic participation whereas multi-generational festivals are overrun with families.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate With Your Community - You can design online engagement to unleash your evangelists. In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans.

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