Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The new building was designed to meet neighborhood needs--not just in the content covered, but in the inclusion of spaces made for particular kinds of activities sought by locals (i.e. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. What made it so special?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. This year, we took a different approach. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. note: originally, this said "we're writing a label" but with that phrasing, lots of people wrote creative titles for the surfboards (like the title for a work of art) instead of talking about content of interest. who were the surfers who used them?” “how

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The workshop was focused on personal resilience and self-care based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and was part of series of workshops on resilience. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. I made this part of the instructions. … Read More.

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Forum One

APRIL 21, 2022

Design can feel very personal and often provokes strong opinions—that’s a good thing! Using audience research and even participatory design, where we engage end-users in early-stage design, we help organizations break out of their own internal ways of communicating. This begins with all the stakeholders in a particular project.

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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? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. They understand we are different, but they don’t see us in competition with each other. We often use them to add in extra content we couldn’t get into the label or assess people’s learning. People go to museums for leisure.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding.

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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? And then you show up in person and feel jilted.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian''s excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. 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.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Of course, everyone’s experiences and takeaways are going to be different, depending on context, circumstance, style, and perspective. The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. What about content? fancy food! silent auctions! corporate sponsorships!)

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. People answer questions differently in harshly lit interrogation rooms than they do in welcoming therapists' offices or in the privacy of their own computer terminals.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian's excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. Marc Payan, the person behind the Twitter ID Imarriage (a domestic violence prevention program) shared that he searches for the phrase, "She said yes" and educates people healthy, happy marriages.

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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. questions that draw from personal experience, not abstraction. speculative (what if?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. The First C: Content.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular. For the first time in a long time, I was personally interacting and engaging with the museum, the collection, and with complete strangers in a way that highlighted the art. You are a museum insider and a content geek.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. How do we define and talk about these different kinds of participation? This isn't just a rhetorical question. Fortunately, science has a (partial) answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. Full attention listening: Giving full focus and attention to the other person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was drastically different from the Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN’s flagship event that has over 2,000 attendees, dozens of tracks and hundreds of panels, big parties, a trade show, and all the things you would expect from a traditional conference. I like to use a rock band metaphor.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. 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. So what did you do next? Photos are fun.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Last month, the IMLS published a report on a survey of 1,700 people, with similar findings about trustworthiness of museums and libraries, and some great added information about how use of the internet benefits both museums (with higher in-person visitation) and visitors (with more ways to find information of interest).

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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. Develop a "question of interest" that relates to your content. instead of what is?)

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

People who create content for the public try to appeal to a wide range of people, both in terms of demographics and usage styles. There are different learning styles. There are different levels of interactivity. The demographic differences are interesting to explore (women aren't collectors?),

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was fascinating to see people--across social differences--responding to representations of love in the paintings, images, objects and narratives that were part of the installation. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard." " They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics. and then aggregating tagged content on their site. The content aggregation is not moderated.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

This is a big change for me--professionally and personally--and I'm thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to take on this position in the city I call home. The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

How can you tell the difference? People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. The classic mistake of organizations is to apply the very old publishing content and messages approach to the not so new social media. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Attendees brought up questions about how they can get more involved with financial discussions in their institutions, how we can change the ways we approach fundraising, how we can think about earned income differently. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Unless your organization is tiny, staff members can't have personal relationships with every user--nor, ethically, might they want to. Make room for personal expression and ownership--both by staff and audience members. In most cases, docents and floor staff are trained to be the point person for conversation and idea-sharing.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I asked what had happened, he explained that he had been the recipient of an act of tollbooth goodwill; the person in front of him in line had paid his toll. But a gift given from one person to another, however small, feels magical. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Unlike Superstruct , which employed a very open-ended collaborative framework to invite people to imagine their circumstances in 2019 relative to several provocative scenarios, Signtific is a more focused, tight experience, both in content and format. In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences. What's also different is that more and more people are viewing the back channel as integrated with the conference networking and participant learning. Jeffrey Veen calls this person an ombudsman for the audience.

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