Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Scientists design the test questions, steer the data collection, and analyze the results. Science has an answer.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

I'm embarrassed to say I hadn't really thought about these questions before the Against Participation symposium. But Ultra-red reminded me that many environments function as distortion machines. Or should they opt out, find friendlier environments, and stop participating in discriminatory spaces?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

SL will take longer to gel into a cohesive environment that has a purpose and a following than the explosive growth experienced by WOW. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. ve found the environment elaborately constructed but humanly forbidding. t think at this time that SL wants to be a WOW.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Second Life — TechSoup formed the Nonprofit Commons five years ago as a virtual community of nonprofits, thriving and building complex 3D interactive environments and hosting regular meetings with streaming media and a wide variety of participatory options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Designing for serendipity: Creating environments, in person and online, where helpful connections can form. The report asks a number of impact questions related to networked citizens and the future. These themes include: 1. Listening to and consulting the crowds: Actively listening to online conversations and openly asking for advice.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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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. At every moment the question of restoration was countered with the preservation of traces. risk participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Foundation Review (Vol 5:3) Makes the case that most foundation strategies are unfolding in complex and dynamic environments, and foundations need a more committed approach to learning and strategic adaptation.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

In other words, the more constrained the game environment, the less agency the player has. And so I humbly submit two questions to ask yourself when thinking about user participation: What is our negotiating stance in developing this relationship with participants? The more open, the more agency. How can we make it a win-win?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

And, finally, with the rise of data and automated generation, leaders need to ask and answer questions with data, and faster. She also talks about listening in layers and scanning environment. The chapter includes some great reflection questions: What stories can you share to advance your top goals?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. We recruited folks and designed software that texted them five times a day for thirty days, asking one question, "Rate your mood 1 (low) to 10 (high)." Beck will be checking in to respond to your comments and questions here.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. We put couches and a coffee table in the room to entice visitors to spend time with the works and create a comfortable environment. If you have a question or comment for Jeffrey and the Oh Snap!

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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? Overnight Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Sometimes the enemy of innovation is not solving the right problem.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. In any work environments, there are things that we fix right away, and then there are other things that are just a bit too tricky or unpleasant.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

I used to think these were easy questions to answer. At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. If you want to create a friendly, welcoming environment AND protect objects, what do you do? What do you think?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

starts to point toward the more collaborative environments that are being termed "social media" these days. And indeed, we find VRM being discussed on sites like "The Social Customer" blog by Christopher Carfi, which is trying to evolve models of customer service and marketing that assume a more empowered and participatory customer base.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

questions because I believe they invite anyone to creatively respond, unlike "what is?" questions, which imply a correct answer. In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. In the current case, the question is: "What will you do when space is as cheap and accessible as the Web is today?"

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

This isn't surprising: when the term "social object" was coined in the online environment , the whole point was that people socialize around specific objects, images, or ideas, not general topics or interests. Read about the Human Library in chapter 3 of The Participatory Museum by searching that term here.)

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

If someone asked you that question, how would you answer? Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content?

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Ask questions, introduce yourself, if you haven’t already. Steven: Want to give it a few more seconds and I’ll go to the next question? Okay, so the second question, why don’t you have a strategic plan? If you have a question, please put it in the chat. Strategic planning explores three key questions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning. Who is going to create and lead this place?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. After the Nicaragua question, Steve says, “Most of you are pretty good at geography.” But it’s all founded on these first few minutes, which create an environment of safe progression, clear instruction, and emotional validation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

If you don’t watch Big Brother , The Apprentice , Dancing with the Stars or X factor you probably dismiss these shows because they revolve around people you don’t know in an environment you find uninteresting and over-hyped. Philippa will be checking in to answer any questions you might have in the comments here on the blog.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

How do you approach a hard question like, "What will you do to meet the challenge of genocide today?" The digital world doesn't seem "real" in the same way that pen and paper does, and in the context of a physical, built environment like an exhibit, a post-it can often feel more appropriate than a computer screen.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

In the other case, the institution was unwilling to engage in the conversational environment and ended up isolated, fueling the fire. It would have been very easy to send out a tweet or Facebook update with a link to the article and some version of the question, "what do you think?" Let’s start there.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. Commenting on the high level of participation at Cafe Scientifique in Denver, John Cohen and Helen MacFarlane write: Several group members have said that they happily ask questions or voice opinions at the Cafe, but would not do so at a lecture.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

When people ask about blogging, the question of comments comes up more frequently than any other. Why not ask more typical website questions, "why don't more people visit my blog?" They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. It's a bit strange. it gets me excited.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

How does it help the Exploratorium to listen to these environments if they can't be controlled? is a more powerful question than “What do you think?” But what if you asked questions instead? Listen to how visitors describe your exhibits to each other—either on the Web or in response to your community engagement questions.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Usually, when I start posts with a question in the title, it's a cheat. The Brooklyn Museum of Art is a great example of a museum really embracing these environments for community-building purposes. So back to the original question: does your museum need its own social network? In this case, it's debatable.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We strive to be a place where you will always meet someone new, someone who is not like you, in a positive environment. Hamming was addressing the question of why more scientists don't do Nobel Prize-worthy work. Our programming isn't for target audiences. I'm proud of the bridging work that we do. But it is so, so delicate.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Introduce yourself if you haven’t, say hi, but ask questions, you know, leave comments. And if there are questions that you’re like, “Oh, this is a really good one,” feel free to just say, “Hey, Julie, we got a good question here.” I’m unable to address specific hand-raising questions.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

For me, the most interesting internal and interpersonal dialogue at Artprize was about these questions, which pushed me to more deeply consider how I make aesthetic judgements and experience art. It was the best example I've seen of a physical environment operating like the kind of successful social platforms Engestrom described in 2005.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

I've been arguing that "visitors as participants" means participating BOTH with content and with other visitors, but that begs the question: do visitors really want to have social experiences with each other? These are random gifts of kindness which make the museum both an environment for desire and one for attention to fellow visitors.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. These third-party applications provide a ready-made environment for comment cards to become more useful and usable to visitors and staff alike. IdeaScale is less useful for questions like, "What should we change about our museum?"--it

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