Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? Or just keep your ears open.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." "There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." each of various qualities. More here ). * The mindshift to be successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. WEF encouraged people to create a selfie video for 20 seconds asking a question that a world leader would answer. So far, two of my students have had their questions answered.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Tags: participatory museum Quick Hits.

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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. Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. Another thinks that users should not only contribute content but also have a hand in determining how it is used. Science has an answer.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. Whenever we are creating content, we like to use it in a variety of formats.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The first of these reasons is practical.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The early participatory projects are terrific. In three years, INNL created a series of fresh, exciting approaches to engaging communities with history. How would you navigate the political minefields of such an endeavor?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk. They see this as directly related to the founding principles of the Mill as a place of experimentation, design, creating, and making. And it leaves me with just one question. Or silk production. It''s serious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Why Extreme Content Delivery Does Not Equal Learning. Creating a Network Map. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. Design Labs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,&# a story telling tool. (And, had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it).

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. What questions do you have? That you know your community. Technology cards. Roles cards.

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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. But I left uneasy, grappling with questions that plagued me throughout the conference. It just creates a virtual outpost for change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While I delivered some content sessions on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn strategy, I also facilitated interactive sessions. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques.

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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. What about content?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

You can also post comments on any chapter, adding your reactions and questions to the published content. Take five minutes and learn how the Science Museum in London created better experiences for deaf visitors. When I wrote my first book, The Participatory Museum , I released it concurrently as a paperback and free online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I have many, many colleagues and friends in that part of the world who are working to support women and NGOs to support a robust civil society or create economic sustainability for women. There are so many big questions about the connected world we live and how it transforms our society, as this opinion piece from CNN discusses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. In a face-to-face training, I might do an exercise with sticky notes where I get participants to write down answers to a question or two related to the content on sticky notes. For this meeting, we asked two questions: What makes a meeting a good, productive use of your time?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it). This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? But how do deal with that much data? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Ask Good Questions. Often, these types of questions focus on failure or betray that the questioner has an agenda.

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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. In 2003, collaborator Stephanie Sherman and I “re-discovered,” the former store, declared nothing for sale, and began inviting artists to create works using the set, or collection of objects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. We could also IM our questions from the adults were listening and observing. ve created something that has some impact in the culture. s certainly educational to have a world where most of the content is generated by the users???

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

Instead of writing a post and soliciting comments (my typical approach), I used an online polling tool to create a simple game where you could read short provocations about questionable revenue sources and give each source an ethical thumbs-up or down. The vast majority of folks consume most content online passively.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. Our ability to collaborate effectively in the cloud and create meaningful media together is quickly evolving as more nonprofits expand their borders.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

In this full-time role, you will be responsible for interactive exhibition development, project management of all our site-specific work, and you will lead the redevelopment of our permanent History Gallery into a more dynamic, participatory, and flexible space. Next week, I will be reviewing applications for this event and making decisions.

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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. That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The First C: Content. Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? This isn't just a rhetorical question. The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. The scientists control the process, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

This week, they hosted "Let Them Be Heard: Visitor Participation in the Museum Experience," featuring four presentations on incorporating visitors' content into museums. I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). Would my enthusiasm have been different?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

What forms of content delivery or participation might induce someone not just to read/look/listen but to care--and hopefully, to act? When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act. Imagine you want to invite people to meaningfully engage with a serious topic in an exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? I was surprised by her question. Balancing multi-vocal content with a comprehensive narrative can be tricky. In Your Face ).

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. Our ability to collaborate effectively in the cloud and create meaningful media together is quickly evolving as more nonprofits expand their borders.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Bringing these different communities together in the same space might not have created safe space for the true issues of each group to emerge. Create a structure that values peoples' participation. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. SETTING UP THE MEETING 5.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Being a trusted source of information can be a barrier that keeps us from sharing content with visitors that might be more contemporary, more ambiguous, more contentious--information that may not be trusted. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Be personal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

From Icommons comes an incredibly useful legal brief to remixing media in the age of participatory media and campaigns by Steve Vosloo, Digital Hero Book Project. The post answers the questions: How do you negotiate the potential minefield of legalese surrounding your content? How do I communicate my content???s

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