Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

While it would not be as "raw" as initially envisioned, urging as many agencies as possible to produce actual queryable APIs with the data would have made more possibilities for truly creative visualizations and allowed new participatory applications to be built. Open Standards.

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Government Open Data Ideas 52

The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

It can pay tribute to heritage while also emphasizing the universal human ideals of justice, family, culture, or community. So, as you’re diving into planning your AAPI Heritage Month events, let’s approach it with open hearts and creative minds. The theme should resonate with both the AAPI community and also general audiences.

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Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

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. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? Is this a problem? I think so.

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Participatory Museum Web Indianapolis 35

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. Why Make it Open? Check out the other parts here.

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Participatory Museum Process Adobe 33

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is managed by the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in partnership with the DMU Centre for Social Action and Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre. The project is commissioned and supported by NESTA , an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative.

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Impact Community Social Phoenix 123

Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

Games are already highly participatory, but over the last few years game designers have been giving players more control over the gameworld and experience. Two years ago, I wrote about Will Wright and the rise of "God games" in which players not only function within but control an expanding universe of characters, scenes, and conditions.

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Game University Create Wiki 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 21, 2011

Both Andrew and James run programs in Arts Administration (at the Wisconsin School of Business and Drexel University respectively) and have lots of experience working and researching what makes arts organizations successful. The one-hour conversation will be wide-ranging, free-wheeling, and open to your comments and questions.

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Arts Model Wisconsin Business 26

Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

But, these platforms also provide the potential for government organizations to improve the satisfaction of their employees as well as citizens by enabling more open, transparent, collaborative, and participatory communications and offer the potential to increase workplace efficiency, productivity, and innovation.

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Social Media Communication Media Government 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments. People are showing up, getting involved, and sharing their enthusiasm in droves.

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Museum Director Participatory Culture 55

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Teen Social Museum Participatory 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

Yesterday, I presented this seminar to University Extension Professionals. I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. transparent open licensing, such as Creative Commons.

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Remix Mashup PowerPoint Classroom 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

I’m teaching a course on social technology at the University of Washington Museology program this spring, and we’ve decided to open up a FREE workshop on participatory design for museum practitioners and other students on the afternoon of the 24th (thank you, UW).

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Experiment Seattle Indianapolis Denver 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. The first part is saying yes and being open to the community." What do we have to do differently?"

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Museum History Arts Work 31

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

It takes the kind of risks that a university art gallery should take. It opens up new conversations about the work of art in our communities. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders.

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Process Share Philadelphia Arts 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door.

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Participatory Museum Arts Artist 46

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Part 1: It's What You Want In 2002, I was finishing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at WPI, a hands-on, technical university in Worcester, Massachusetts. Eventually, they had an opening for "Exhibits and Programs Associate"--a low-level jack of all trades position supporting the department.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

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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Reflection Museum Podcast Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

And to me, this is one of the most hopeful and interesting survival paths we can take--one that isn't about rivaling theme parks or movie theaters but opening up our ability to talk to one another. Tags: participatory museum. I'm increasingly interested in the museum as a place that becomes both more social and more personal.

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Museum Site Facilitation Participatory 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Another theme of web2.o

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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

I presume that their silence on the airwaves means MoMA doesn't have a policy that allows staff to engage in these environments in the open, personal, conversational ways that are appropriate to the platforms when the topic veers away from positive comments and event announcements. so that MoMA could become part of the discussion.

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Conversation Museum Artist Minneapolis 21

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

You’re super involved with Cal State University. The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans.

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 123

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

A commenter, Stacy Peterson, responded by turning my exploration back on itself: Quality makes sense but engagement is more open to interpretation. In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. Engagement? What do you mean by engagement?

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Goal Museum Evaluation History 48

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Axelson Center for Nonprofit Management, North Park University / Chicago, IL / Price TBA. We are thrilled to be hosting our 12th International Conference and 3rd PhD Seminar in collaboration with Ersta Skondal University College on their campus in Stockholm, Sweden. Annual Symposium for Nonprofit Professionals and Volunteers.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2013

Working in museums as floor staff cracked open the social stranger door for me. Of course, there''s no single social object that projects a universal message of openness and willingness to engage. I am not a person who is fundamentally good at talking to strangers. Out of uniform, he''s just another guy on the street.

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Museum Tools Participatory Massachusetts 35

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Was it going to be called the 92y’s Giving Tuesday, or was it going to be open? And I love how everything is open source and they say here’s the logo and no, there aren’t rules for how you can use it. People are buying ships in this imaginary universe. His organization is called the 92y.

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Social Game Model Fun 22

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. What a wonderful resource for classes." --A University of Pittsburgh professor "People who did the responses are older than I expected." --A college student "I really like the post-its.

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Museum Arts Problem Design 45

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Working in museums as floor staff cracked open the social stranger door for me. Of course, there's no single social object that projects a universal message of openness and willingness to engage. I am not a person who is fundamentally good at talking to strangers. Out of uniform, he's just another guy on the street.

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Tools Museum Participatory Massachusetts 34

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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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

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. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I’m a big believer about putting things into the universe. ” And so when we went through a planning process that involved the students and the mental health providers, it resulted in opening some clinics that were inside the schools.

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Community Video Slides Survey 79

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. Over the last week, there’s been a lively discussion on the wiki about the key audiences and goal of the book, and I wanted to open that up to you (and you are, of course, welcome to join the wiki and help). And there’s a third reason.

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Participatory Design Museum Wiki 26

Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Beyond these benefits, running a local currency on an app opens even more potential for experimentation. As a platform for such local activity, more participatory forms of engagement are already envisaged—an area “culture pass” for museums and arts institutions is one exciting example—to further stimulate local activity.

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Local Digital Experiment Alternative 104

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

I cut out from the meeting by myself to check out an exhibition called Open House, if These Walls Could Talk at the Minnesota History Center. My hope is that we can find a way to get it into the science and humanities classrooms in colleges and universities, and I am working on that. Not that it was sad, but that it was human.

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Help Museum eBook Project 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. This includes: Mary Joyce’s Digital Activism , Charlene Li’s Open Leadership , Jennifer Aaker’s DragonFly Effect , and Carol Cone’s Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding. Jessica Colaco who is the manager poses for a photo.

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Kenya Network NGO Nonprofit 96

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I didn't grow up staring open-mouthed at natural history dioramas or wandering through art galleries. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. Even the training of museum professionals has gotten more academic with the explosion of university-based graduate programs. I go on hikes.

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Museum Alternative Education University 29