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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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 4, 2012

In this workshop, we’ll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. In this session, we will discuss how co-creation unleashes online evangelists and strengthens cause centric communities, and help you to do that as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). For example, if you invite a participant to scribe, they cannot fully participate in the activity. Open Space and Unconference Facilitation.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. Over the past four years, there's been lots of discussion about the "why" of visitor participation, but in my opinion, we've been lacking a good resource on the "how." The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next?

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Facilitation Technique Ideas Exercise 101

sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking? Whether organizations start with a single grant program or incorporate a participatory approach across all their funding, there are a variety of ways to practice participatory grantmaking. And several ways not to do it.

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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. How do we get the history of the poor?

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History Museum Minnesota Participatory 51

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

As a follow-up to the Women in Philanthropy Institute’s 2023 Symposium, hosted by the Indiana University Lilly Foundation School of Philanthropy, we gathered four dynamic grantmakers to discuss how they are doing the work to amplify female voices, especially women, girls, and femmes of color, in philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. The rest of the day was spent in small group discussions framed around different issues. Photo by Glenn Hirsch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. We were asked to reflect on how the objective represents Women’s Leadership and to find a partner to discuss our observations and get to know each other. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. see for example the post about blogging policy ). Everyone is a Curator.

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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? Billboard (@billboard) April 7, 2014.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs. I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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Museum Program Participatory Community 49

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. You Examples. Be sure to watch their space for more! Presentation. Technology cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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Facilitation Training Train International 50

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Join us to examine where your community resides online using a mapping exercise, think about cross-channel best practices, and talk about examples of successful cross-platform community building. We’ll address emerging best practices and discuss the associated opportunities and challenges of community-driven strategies.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. 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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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Also, the diverse roles, backgrounds, talents, and opinions of my fellow attendees really enriched the discussions we had and enhanced my overall takeaway from the Summit. Can you give an example of how you applied what you learned from the 14LCS to your daily work? Plus, my track facilitators were great!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. One of the themes that bubbled up was the role of ambient data from social media channels and I agreed to lead a discussion on: How useful is this data for foundations? Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Not Data Driven.”

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I like to use half of any allotted time slot to talk and half for Q&A, so we usually have time to get into meaty discussions. 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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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Here’s an example: "Over the next ten to twenty years, many of the beaches in our state will lose up to ten feet to erosion. In the above, the organization has connected an outcome time frame with a few examples that any beach lover could relate to. Here’s an example: "We have a plan to address beach erosion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Digital technologies are connecting residents in neighborhoods, catalyzing community discussions, changing the way governments and citizens interact, and making government more transparent. Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. Guides to Civic Tech Assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report analyzes many examples of networks and provides tools and tips for Network-Centric Grantmaking. Diana Scearce, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with on the Network of Networked Funders project, is the report author. And, how can funders leverage them for good? The scenarios are both possible and provocative.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Examples: WorldChanging: knowledge prodution and sharing. Presenters: Emily Gertz - Change.org. Jon Lebkowsky - Social Web Strategies.

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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. Who is the lead singer, guitarist, bass, and drums. Here’s how that translates to team facilitation: Facilitator Lead: The person who is facilitating the discussion or exercise. Orienting the Group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

Having templates make it more efficient to implement and it also makes it easy for your set up your measurement process. For example, if a blog is part of your social media channels, these templates from Hubspot are really useful. Does your organization develop and implement your social media content strategy as a continuous process?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

For example, Socialedge compiled a list of Twitter users in the social entrepreneurship sector that included a list of hashtags. Another example, although not totally nonprofit focused is #blogchat. For example, the #givelist tag aggregated all the suggestions from Twitter and then created this site.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Event formats — for example, a lecture, a panel, a world cafe, or speed dating, and how keep them effective and manageable. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Vancouver, British Columbia: Luminate Online Discussion Group — Ask Anything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Celgene’s has five focus areas that guide its work and that our talks and discussion touched on many of these themes. For example, they might search for the word “headache,” not find what they’re looking for and use a string specific terms like “sinus headache with pain between nose and ears.”

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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. A clear example of this can be found in the difference between the 96Elephants campaign and that of charity: water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” ” Lots of comments pros and cons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 The very first question at the very meeting to discuss it should be “What’s the concern? Here is an example from Pre-School California.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

Among other things, I led a workshop on "social objects" --artifacts and exhibits that inspire people to point, discuss, snap photos, and generally share their experience both with friends and strangers. Discuss your findings with colleagues. See for example the photo at the top of this post. Make it (More) Social.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Let's discuss what it means, how it works, where it can go. There are huge positives to tapping into these networks (which we've discussed here before), including connecting with visitors "where they are" and co-opting easy-to-customize applications for museum purposes. In this case, it's debatable.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. How can we transition from people trusting our information to trusting their ability to participate in museums and be respected, safe, and rewarded for doing so?

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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. During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?"

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