Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory. Don’t push networks to centralize and create format structures in order to manage when the network does not need this structure.

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Network Report Empowerment Structure 104

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

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. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general. Key is a participatory development process. Each type of mapping has specific benefits.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

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.”. The next step in the process was for participants to evaluate some of the ideas using a 2×2 called the importance/difficulty grid. Making: Ideation and Rapid Prototyping. All together, participants came up with over 500 ideas. (Of

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

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! It's a shame that several of these projects are labeled as "experimental" and don't have formal evaluation built into their cheap, fast processes.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. Tags: evaluation design Unusual Projects and Influences. Recently, I've been wrestling a lot with the relationship between innovation and impact. My model is the shining star. His is the virus.

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Action Ideas St. Louis Museum 31

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. DIGIMARCON Cruise 2017.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Improve the section on evaluation. Conxa Roda was a queen of cutting.

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Participatory Museum Statistics Process 21

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” The Networked Change Report from NetChange evaluated 47 of the most effective campaigns, ranging from the NRA to Occupy Wall Street. “Old power works like a currency. Read our latest analysis of p2p fundraising. Radical Collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

Last week, I focused on the 2014 theme (social impact assessment) and the many creative evaluation projects produced by campers. I first learned about this technique from Sam Kaner''s excellent book, Facilitator''s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. Build structures to support meeting each other. Tag Team the Facilitation.

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Facilitation Professional Learning Participatory 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.”

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Journal Change Learning Technology 101

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning. On the other hand, I appreciate the fact that research in the value of informal learning, and evaluation metrics beyond earned income, throughput, and educational outcomes are underdeveloped.

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