Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. We had some money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. After finishing the share pairs, we did a quick full group “popcorn” of the ideas that bubbled up. How do we get a telling the story about why this all important? Your biggest insight about network leadership?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads and it captures. New power is made by many.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

They also had a talented filmmaker capture the winners’ stories in brief videos. He shared how he built a global cross-sector movement to support sanitation in developing countries. He spoke about networked mindsets and how to work across sectors. I’ll share that in my next post!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Instead she drew people personally into the stories again and again, asking us to compare our own and our ancestors' experiences to those she described.

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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. Plus it is always a pleasure for me to observe “Gunner’s&# facilitation techniques (I learn so much). Photo by Glenn Hirsch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. ” He started off with the story of Chelsea Welch and Alois Bell to illustrate how civic life has changed in the last 5 years. 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

deation Conference is intentionally formatted to create a rich learning and sharing experience. Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. Many passionate people and stories. . I loved this Five Dollar Bill airplane story. The description: The !deation

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Short story: we learned a lot. This project wove together many different participatory threads. The facilitation was as chaotic and fragile as a spiderweb. Today, I'm thrilled to share that format with you. We wrote a toolkit about our process. You can download it for free right now. What did we learn?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop. But there also is a sense of community ownership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

So, to close out the year, I thought I’d share this list of books with you, especially if Santa gave you an Amazon gift card. I’m honored to be working with her on a training project that I’ll share more about in 2011. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. More about the book here.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

This work included developing a secure system to track, map, and report incidents of gender-based violence; an emergency hotline; and media training to support women in documenting and sharing their experiences. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership.

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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? They are frequently about real people's stories. Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?"

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I heard incredible—and often salacious—stories behind hidden gems I’d walked past numerous times. You now have exactly two minutes to concoct the epic love story that brings together the two characters you’ve chosen. We shared what captivated and spoke to us on a personal level, not just what we were told was “important."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Participants' stories are often more valuable than their opinions. Share where you are clearly and concisely. Create a structure that values peoples' participation. Use unorthodox activities to inspire fresh thinking.

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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. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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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. Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy. Twitter : A space where we can engage with the community, share ideas, ask for help, get feedback, listen to complaints, participate and mobilize people to help us with our vision of ‘a book in every child’s hand’.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

The Fringe was a tentacle that lapped you in, a teaser that enticed people into stories they didn''t know they wanted. While "final" versions of these prototypes would need to stand alone on the sidewalk, the best prototypes are facilitated. creative placemaking design participatory museum public space social bridging'

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. How can we improve on these models to becomes sites for participatory giving?

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. About NetSquared.

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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. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. They really cared about me.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

I'm curious to hear what you think works and doesn't as well and I hope you'll share your experiences in the comments. This kind of personal expression comes out in exhibitions via signed or handwritten labels, staff picks, and visitor-contributed objects and stories. It comes out in creative donor walls and staff directories online.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It''s neither "quick" nor "inexpensive" to mount exhibitions that include diverse community stories. But that business model requires experienced staff who know how to empower people, facilitate meaningful participation, respond to community issues and interests, and ignite learning. The curators are the humans in the story.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

So if you have to leave early, or maybe you get interrupted, or you want to share with a friend or colleague, don’t worry, we’ll get all that good stuff to you later today. I’m going to stop sharing. So I wanted to share them with you. I just want to let you all know that we are recording this session.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

But instead of having to sort through emails or spreadsheets to get the latest information to your Executive Director or CFO, imagine having a dashboard at your fingertips where you can easily see—and share—that information. Are you looking at incorporating more participatory grantmaking principles?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Day 3, Mary Joyce will lead a workshop on digital activism using the Story of Electronics , an environmental-themed short film, as a case study and jumping off point for a workshop exercise to create a digital campaign. A Networked organization is more than just the electronic infrastructure and tools that facilitate communication.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

The game could instruct people to share voting stations and to use a brief discussion to come to a consensus vote. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum interactives. As it was, there were too few stations and people awkwardly looked on as others used them. There are many other options. Why do you oppose flag-burning?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. The design was to share this learning was amazing. Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world. ” Paul Connolly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse. Openness - ????A It's messy.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! We’re bringing together bright minds, seasoned experts, and innovative practitioners for three days of learning, sharing, and networking. Feb 24 - 25. Fundraising.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

I'm thrilled to share this brilliant guest post by Marilyn Russell, Curator of Education at the Carnegie Museum of Art. In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. Reassert the "forum"? I like that the art response of an 8 y.o.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

To me, museums are room for debate, that they are institutions where the world and one's own life are put into perspective, and that they are filled with works and stories where values, such as equality, sustainability, democracy and justice. They defined museums as “object-based, contextual stories. can find nourishment.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Instead, people crowded around works, pointing things out, exclaiming about their preferences, sharing their discoveries. Other very popular works came with a great story or had a puzzle that had to be "figured out" and could then be explained to others. There was never the sense that the art was a backdrop for a party. The prizes?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2010

The questions are written for parents and caregivers to share tips, ideas, and stories with each other. You get the sense reading the question that someone needs your advice, and if you've figured something out that works for you and your child, you want to share. This is a participatory comment board in a true sense.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

But now, I'm looking at the story of visitors pointing in Race in a different way: as a low-tech example of a socially networked platform. Consider the example of people being able to save their favorite exhibits and share them with others. Visitors see things that intrigue them, point at them, and other visitor look.

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