Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. It is being used less for remote participation and more for people in the room.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

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. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Non-Participation 6.

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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. Blog commenters are contributors, as are people who engage in contests.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). How many people will be monitoring and managing your accounts? In which formats?

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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

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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was fascinating to see people--across social differences--responding to representations of love in the paintings, images, objects and narratives that were part of the installation. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Third Place: $10,000. The Extraordinaries -- On-demand crowdsourcing volunteerism via smartphones.

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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.”. We spent a lot of time identifying grantees and other funders, but also people who be “thought catalysts” or subject matter experts in “21 st Century advocacy” to bring into the room. How might we be complicit in preserving power or dispersing it?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

People often ask me which museums are my favorite. It's not the extent to which they are participatory. They are usually staffed by people who feel incredibly passionate about their particular focus. They reflect the soul of the community and can be responsive to its unique interests and needs. It's a Starbucks.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

People--especially young folks looking to break into the museum business--often ask me how I got here. I met lovely people in engineering, but I found the work to be too detail-oriented and microscopic in scope to satisfy me. We had only eight people doing everything related to content and programming at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

But when people told us what they loved about the museum, they didn’t use the word “participation.” It is a group of people connected by something shared. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County. In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. Our visitors are about 8% Latino.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

And people aren't just thinking about this stuff; many museums have taken real, exciting action in the last year. But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. We need more advocates, more voices that can help navigate (and lead!) and watched the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

When people ask about blogging, the question of comments comes up more frequently than any other. Why not ask more typical website questions, "why don't more people visit my blog?" or "why don't more people link to my blog?" They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

People want to spread ideas much more than they care about being card-carrying member of your organization. It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” And, when individual people want to make a difference, many think not just of donating their time or their money, but their networks. Technology. My Passion.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

And I wonder if you just say that to keep people away because it’s so beautiful. Oh, people are voting right now. So yeah, so I see it looks like about a quarter of people don’t know what to do. Oh, yeah, some other people put some other ideas in the chat, too. But that’s okay. Dr. Ross: Okay, great.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Lindsay Patross runs the blog, and people get hold of her, too. Most people are fascinated by the interior life of artists. Most people are fascinated by the interior life of artists.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

People answer questions differently in harshly lit interrogation rooms than they do in welcoming therapists' offices or in the privacy of their own computer terminals. When you want visitors to spend a long time reflecting and sharing their thoughts, you need to design spaces for response that are comfortable and minimize distractions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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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. It''s a unique opportunity to learn from people with different perspectives.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a bad experience working with a group of people to make a decision. And things go wrong: roles aren’t clear, timelines extend, or people disagree. Most groups of people do not self-manage well. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Most of us have. But these “soft skills” are not magic.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

It means seeking out people in their "natural habitat" of the social Web and paying attention to what they are blogging, writing, and saying about your institution. Yes, the Exploratorium is also present in these arenas as a "talker" (more on that next week), but it is just one voice among thousands.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

The resulting (real) exhibits are high-quality experiences that reflect a level of creativity that could not have resulted from our scant in-house exhibit development staff. We did not ask people to design whole exhibits and hand over CAD drawings so we could build them. When we changed something, we were changing it on people.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So it’s for the people, by the people, is kind of the mantra here. . So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. How do we do it in a way that feels inclusive, that people are heard, and that we can make decisions and not be overwhelmed by the process? How do we do this well?

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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. New voices energizing conversations. Technology. 10/27/2016.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I have a lot of conversations with people that go like this: Other person: "So, you think that museums should let visitors control the museum experience?" In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Me: "Sort of." and my emphatic response is YES.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

I'm still close with some of the very first people to read the blog--strangers whose comments, encouragement, and advice have guided me for more than a decade. Thousands of people started reading the blog. I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

This requires the global community to center the voices of people directly impacted by poverty in its approach and support solutions that empower children and their families. Center People Directly Impacted by Poverty.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

This week, I've had multiple conversations with colleagues in the arts, symphonies, and urban planning about the fear professionals have about "losing control" when opening up new opportunities for people to participate. While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Content expertise matters.

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