Forum One

APRIL 21, 2022

We always want to learn how internal stakeholders, from web managers to CEOs, will respond to design so we can incorporate these important perspectives into our approach. Along with language and information architecture, design decisions can help break down and structure content in a way that’s more easily consumable.

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Design Team Beginner Audience 46

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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Participatory Museum Vietnam Netherlands 30

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

In a normal year, I make it to the highest level on my airline frequent flyer program, in part, due to many long-haul international flights. I shifted a lot of my content and advice to focus on creating a life-work balance when you work remotely and how to create a more connected virtual team as well as digital wellness.

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Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. I also invite guests to come into my class via Zoom video conference.

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Learning Classroom Classes Student 84

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. We have an intern, Kathryn, who emailed each participant individually to thank them for coming, shared their personal photo, and gave them the link to the rest of the photos.

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Activities Active Activism Participatory 50

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? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Participatory Museum Web Indianapolis 35

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. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. International Training. Evaluation.

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Training Train San Jose Instructional Design 50

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). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

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). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. At Media Cause, we serve clients with a wide range of budgets, internal team sizes, and digital capabilities. What about content? But instead of seeing this as a problem, how can we turn it into an advantage? .

Design 52

Design Experiment Nonprofit Collaboration 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We see our visitors as partners in actively interpreting and exploring exhibition content. If you are working with us as an artist or contributor to an exhibition, you should expect that museum staff will create multi-modal, interdisciplinary, participatory, immersive, and social experiences around your work.

Museum 38

Museum Artist Participatory History 38

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The First C: Content. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. So, let’s look at these 4Cs in some detail.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Covina, California: Monetization of Content. The workshops topics included.

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Local San Francisco United Kingdom Guatemala 48

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.

Museum 29

Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

The whole day was spent in passionate discussion about research projects, international crises, and serious, cost-intensive efforts for zoos and aquaria to take action to improve the fate of elephants and other species at risk. We give people content and then we say, "you decide." We want our donors to be advocates.

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Action People Conservancy Africa 46

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. Curated Content. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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India Strategy Skype Remix 99

Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Museum History Netherlands Create 36

Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Most of the content was (and is) user generated. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Netsquared Wikipedia San Francisco Iraq 52

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. We developed and prototyped everything in-house with staff and interns.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

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. Dipping: This is checking in with yourself and to notice any internal distractions or feelings – not to judge them but be aware. ” This builds trust and establishes your objectivity.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

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. Yet, our executives and managers, our internal stakeholders cannot understand the open culture.

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Create Green Social Media Structure 94

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. And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience. Then we opened up for discussion. Peer Self-Assessment and Peer Coaching Exercises.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. MSI did three things that most organizations don't or can't do when they set up a video contest: They got a TON of local, national, and international press. I've watched a couple hundred.

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Museum Contest Video Chicago 34

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. At this point, we realised that there were several internal questions to answer and some of them painfully introspective. Like my friend Gautam John , I’ve been an advocate and donor to Creative Commons. Crossposted at the Creative Commons Weblog.

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License Participatory Culture India 93

Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

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. The content is multidisciplinary, with a collection that includes both local history and contemporary art. We'll need interns. There's even a historic cemetery for good measure.

History 55

History Museum Arts Consultant 55

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Where Radio Maria collected and re-broadcasted incoming voice content, Volta Star in Ghana focused on improving access to radio segments by posting outgoing content. Making radio more accessible in Ghana.

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Press Ghana Tanzania Zimbabwe 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

At Beyond Broadcast Conference keynote, Henry Jenkins , used the term " astro turf " to refer to "participatory media" made by big business. His job includes strategic planning, launching and maintaining web sites for the International and some locals. Well, this example is no astro turf. It's the real thing.

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Video QuickTime Houston Broadcast 50

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Ready to turn your institution into a site of participatory engagement? Want to bring the spirit of this blog to your colleagues and projects? Have an audacious idea but don't know where to start?

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Museum Professional Service Participatory 21

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. where she worked at the International Spy Museum. "We We painted a big map of the western U.S.

Museum 31

Museum History Arts Work 31

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Usually, the institution wants to maintain some control--whether over where the content comes from or how it is selected and organized. In this way, Click is a powerful example of the "venue as content platform" definition of 2.0. The internal team is led by a non-curator. They kept the interface simple.

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Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. Funders and potential donors tend to look for particular benchmarks of professionalism (appropriately), and few are comfortable funding the most risky or content-specific institutions. The content is often seen as not being community-specific.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Anna had been the founding Curator of Education at the National Building Museum, led the Rolling Rainforest project, and was a real innovator in developing in-depth participatory design experiences with community members (though I wouldn't have used those words at the time). The Spy Museum was a dream place for me. Seek out mentors.

Museum 52

Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. If your idea is mission-relevant, you will be able to find a way to make it palatable within the context of your institution.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Every non-spammer editor who signed up was granted full access to change and comment on the content.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

The book explains how to host events with purpose, drawing lessons from intimate parties, mass happenings, and international summits. Events are not all logistics and content. Parker argues that all events--from team meetings and picnics to conferences and weddings--are opportunities to come together with purpose.

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Hosting Arts Help Museum 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

" Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future. It requires the ability to change our internal culture. She's just the type of nonprofit tagger we're looking for over at the NP Tagovates Affinity Group at N-TEN.) That is proving to be the real challenge.

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Feeds Green Brain Audio 50

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Social Capital 2016 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. Feb 24 - 25.

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