Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time. This is where participatory practice comes in to play. Nonprofits must have a clear and compelling mission statement that states the organization’s reason for being.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Over three months, about 600 people filled mason jars with personal memories and put them on display. People were spending a long time working on them. What was it?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Telling great stories helps your non-profit get its message out into the world, connect with new audiences and motivate people to take action like making a donation. Every story we tell is a serious of events that happened to a person, place or project. It’s participatory. That means it’s what we are doing.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Over 20,000 copies have been sold around the world.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I'm finding myself really enjoying fundraising because it is fundamentally about inspiring people to participate--and to do so in a way that is significant both for the organization and for themselves. As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. note: originally, this said "we're writing a label" but with that phrasing, lots of people wrote creative titles for the surfboards (like the title for a work of art) instead of talking about content of interest. What do you want to know?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Wherever possible, Vi personalized the tour to individuals in the group. Vi was unapologetically personal about her own relationship to the content on display. What made it so special? 5'11", 6'1", etc.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. I asked each person to fill in cells in a matrix. Now add a layer in your mind showing the people represented in those circles and lines. These are opportunities for meaning making.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 96

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. The people at Museums and the Web are on the forefront of web-based innovative museum practice. You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. The two worlds were placed side-by-side and participants were asked to draw arrows and label the interventions.

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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. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

It is so part of my personality that even on vacation my kids wake up in the morning and ask what’s the plan for the day. We believe that properly supported capacity development is itself important because it places local organizations at the center of the solution. Who is defining results anyway?

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

So while there was a lot we were nodding our heads along to in this article, there were also some places where we wanted to add thoughts of our own. . The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. Community is key: working with, not for. fancy food! silent auctions!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We started the summer with no money and a strategic vision to be a thriving, central gathering place. We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county. I can't believe it when I hear words from the strategic plan come out of people's mouths.

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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. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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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. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex. Each person introduced their: “Five Things You Should Know About Me&# for this project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Whether it was a 12 year old starting a fundraising drive to help homeless , GivingTuesday matching grant challenges , nonprofits launching crowd funding campaigns , sharing unselfies about why they give , people sharing their giving stories – yesterday was about abundance in the nonprofit sector versus scarcity.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. People talk. People talk. I take the same bus every day and recognize many of the people on it. One guy sings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

It brought together a rich mix of people working in humanitarian causes, using social media, and creatives. It took place in Long Beach, CA (which has the largest number of Cambodian-Americans in the US). Many passionate people and stories. . So expect some live blogging, and reflections. The description: The !deation

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

” Her definition of an engaged leader is someone who uses digital, mobile, and social tools strategically to achieve established goals as they relate to leading people and managing organizations. Listen at Scale: How to determine what people need from them and to deepen and enhance their relationship.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

Any place with people working different schedules in different parts of the building suffers from it. We thought for a minute about more complicated backchannel options but realized that what we really wanted was an easy-to-use, opt-in space where people could share what''s going on with their work. This problem is nothing new.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. What started as a fun personal project for her will hopefully become part of our permanent history gallery--a space we are trying to make more interactive over the coming years. It happens because people see an opening where there wasn't one before.

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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. Everyone can have her own personal experience of history.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular. Dustin: About a year ago I met a couple of people from Museum Hack at a conference. I want to help people find interactive and accessible points of entry and give them the tools to curate their own experience during every museum visit.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

A practice-based artist once colorfully described art museums to me as "places where art goes to die." But these shifts come with necessary questions about how to scaffold the visitor experience in a "living" space so people understand what the heck is happening, how they can participate, and what is out-of-bounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. People voted by clapping.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). So, they decided to solicit postcards from real people's road trips, to be displayed in the exhibition. By the time he got home, 10,000 new people had seen the video.

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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. People are showing up, getting involved, and sharing their enthusiasm in droves. It is incredibly rewarding work.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Today, a guest post from one of the people who inspires me: Ken Eklund. When I worked briefly with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative to conceptualize a mobile phone-based game to connect visitors to the park to its cultural institutions and history, I knew Ken would be the perfect person to make it happen. Mysterious! Intriguing!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

This is a big change for me--professionally and personally--and I'm thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to take on this position in the city I call home. The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

Among other things, I led a workshop on "social objects" --artifacts and exhibits that inspire people to point, discuss, snap photos, and generally share their experience both with friends and strangers. Go through the institution and identify places, artifacts, or exhibits that are highly conducive to social sharing.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Story House Belvédère in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is a magical place. In its short existence (it opened in 2013), the place has made a name for itself as a successful community-driven, innovative cultural initiative. The place surpassed them. I spoke with some of the people working there, especially founder Linda Malherbe.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Last month, the IMLS published a report on a survey of 1,700 people, with similar findings about trustworthiness of museums and libraries, and some great added information about how use of the internet benefits both museums (with higher in-person visitation) and visitors (with more ways to find information of interest).

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