Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

How do you measure the value of that experience? Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. From the beginning, we observed pretty amazing experiences happening with the Memory Jars. People were spending a long time working on them.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory. We had some money.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

The theme should clearly reflect the purpose of honoring and highlighting AAPI cultures. You can even invite attendees to join in group dances or lessons to create an interactive experience. Raffles – Raffle donated prizes or host a silent auction for unique experiences, gift baskets, art, and other items.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We’ve been doing a little experiment at our museum with labels. In our quest to make the public areas of the museum more reflective of Santa Cruz culture, we moved these boards from a comprehensive display in the history gallery into a main stairwell, prominently visible from the lobby and throughout the building.

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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 post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The organizations have extensive experience delivering leadership programs, especially for young women and experience advocating for women’s issues, including reproductive health. The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Typically, it takes someone seeing a situation that needs to change and doing the work to change it. Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. Once Natanja saw who wasn’t there, she could work with her team to fix it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. the capacity to experiment with one???s Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Performance ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! I’m giving away a free registration to NTEN’s Leading Social Change Summit. I’ll pick a winner by July 3oth.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. I feared that the event would feel cliquey and wouldn't represent the creative, inclusive spirit of Ze's work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it. We were assigned to small groups to work a specific theme.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Ellen shared the brilliant work at Conner Prairie to make finances transparent to all staff. This woman is killing it when it comes to developing in-gallery interactive experiences around permanent collections. Testing, refining, experimenting, and doing it all with style. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. Working toward useful standards of measurement.

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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. How does their work relate to their physical institutions? Where are the friendly, open, participatory experiences you came for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. One of the reflections.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. Awards can show higher-ups the value of our work and they can be important tools for showing funders results.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

So when the folks at the think tank asked us to make a media piece to address one problem we saw with the current setup, I decided to do a little experiment in visitor-driven navigation. I'd had a good experience earlier asking a guard what he recommended--it had taken me into a gallery I otherwise would have missed completely.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The fun part of the instructional design is selecting good assessments, creating applied “homework” assignments where emerging leaders get to practice their skills at work, and providing guides for their mentors to support the emerging leaders. Service: the ability to understand and meet the needs of people you work with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

So expect some live blogging, and reflections. It brought together a rich mix of people working in humanitarian causes, using social media, and creatives. deation Conference is intentionally formatted to create a rich learning and sharing experience. I was invited to participate in the first inaugural !deation

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work. This isn't even participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. In some cases, partners will not have met face-to-face before they work together. Experience with Middle Eastern Culture and no experience. Some Connection Points: Learning.

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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. In 2003, collaborator Stephanie Sherman and I “re-discovered,” the former store, declared nothing for sale, and began inviting artists to create works using the set, or collection of objects.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It was held in Newcastle in the north of England, and about 70 folks from around the world (but mostly Europe) came to play, learn, make stuff, and help each other work out challenges inherent in trying to make risky ideas happen. I tried to help workshop leaders work some of these in on the fly, but that put unreasonable stress on them.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. This community was ready for a museum that reflected the unique creative identity of Santa Cruz.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

It really reflects what we're trying to do here to transform our institution into as relevant, dynamic, and successful an organization as possible. Her blog, "Museum 2.0," is one of the leading forces working to remake the museum experience. where she worked at the International Spy Museum. "We

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

The result was a true experiment in designing the future--right here, right now--with artists and planners and civic leaders at the helm together. They were heading to work, going home, running errands. What kind of cultural experience offers the right kind of invitation and opportunity for pedestrians in public space?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. Blogging gave me a way to formalize out-of-work learning in a format I enjoy. I''ve never taken a break from blogging before.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Jane McGonigal and the folks from IFTF have released a new future-casting game/collaborative experience called Signtific Lab. And while it's fun as an online experience, I see the potential for Signtific to be repurposed in physical space as a dynamic platform for capturing diverse visitor opinions on a variety of "what if?"

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. Dial-A-Stranger was one of the best participant experiences I've ever had. It improved my immediate mood and made me feel special in a lasting way.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

In this full-time role, you will be responsible for interactive exhibition development, project management of all our site-specific work, and you will lead the redevelopment of our permanent History Gallery into a more dynamic, participatory, and flexible space. If you are interested, please apply soon ! This camp will be a 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The Packard Foundation, true to the nature of its brave and innovative Learning in Public experiment, generously shared with us some of the lessons it learned by opening up the measurement and evaluation effort of its Organizational Effectiveness program to…well… the public.

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