Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 98

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Achieving equitable participation…requires a commitment to hearing all voices, valuing all perspectives, and taking swift action to correct disparities of representation” (Barnes & Schmitz, 2016). Collaborate through field work and participatory practice. Seek diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Collaboration North Carolina Effective Participatory 98

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.

Participatory 52

Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Global Voices is the leading participatory media room for voices from developing countries around the globe. I've the honor of being involved with the Global Voices on and off for a couple of years. So, that's why I'm hoping you'll join me and support Global Voices. I'm a donor and let me tell you why.

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Voice Global Cambodia Support 50

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 winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

Participatory 51

Participatory Arts Audience Museum 51

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. While that was painful for the organizations involved, it also helped force the issue of whether participatory engagement could be core to a strong future business model for each organization or not. didn't mince words.

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Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. This way of working requires a different, more participatory leadership model and mindset that Allison Fine and I first wrote about in The Networked Nonprofit and others have written about called “networked leadership.” It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven.

Participatory 116

Participatory Leadership Model Skills 116

Candid

MAY 4, 2022

Foundations also demonstrated their willingness to support experimentation and learning by actively listening to grantees and communities; giving them more visibility; amplifying grantees’ voices; connecting more with the lived experiences of their grantees and community members; and making their grantmaking more participatory. .

Europe 98

Europe Case Study Fund Practice 98

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. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have. But participatory facilitation can be taught. What made it so special?

Museum 51

Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In different countries, I''ve noticed broad trends in how people feel most comfortable sharing their voice. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere. Am I sharing my voice or being exposed?

Culture 49

Culture Participatory New Zealand Museum 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. I’ll share that in my next post!

Philanthropy 75

Philanthropy Cambodia Impact Learning 75

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

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.

Storytelling 75

Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity.

Teen 24

Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The examples were all around us, not just in the voices of speakers but in the physical sites where we met. Each room was a diverse mix of voices, perspectives, and language. I first sensed the difference at the front door. There wasn't one.

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Museum America South America Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

Museum 45

Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

When should you turn down the invitation to share your voice? How should you make these decisions in an imperfect world where every host is using you for something, and every voice is in danger of being manipulated, misunderstood, or subverted? There are many ways for voices to get chopped and twisted.

Participatory 20

Participatory Museum Voice Press 20

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. I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc.

Global 96

Global Network Participatory Netsquared 96

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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Model Activities Active Activism 98

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.

Facilitation 50

Facilitation Training Train International 50

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

As we try to raise support for 2015, we wanted to share the impact of your donation from last year, from the voices of our scholarship recipients. Who did the scholarships go to, and what was the impact of your donation? What is your organization''s mission?

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Donation Impact Share NTEN 64

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Co-created programming that represents the complex range of voices in communities, offers platforms for communication, collaboration and shared experiences that can enrich preexisting relationships while also offer a space for new relationships to form and strengthen.

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Museum Program Participatory Community 49

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.

Design 49

Design Participatory Children Museum 49

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. The voices are recorded, the doors perpetually closing. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences comfort.

Participatory 20

Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20

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. Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2011

As a researcher and activist for participation, I've sometimes downplayed the value of this charm because it seems like arsenal for professionals who claim participatory projects are frivolous. "Be My goal is to eventually be surrounded by the voices of our visitors--funny, sweet, demanding--so they can inspire me all day long.

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Museum Participatory Comment Sound 47

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. There are two reasons to pursue this: for better accuracy (trusted source of info) and for more diverse inclusion of voices (trusted source of varied social experience).

Participatory 20

Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

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). The comments, which were previously unmoderated, suddenly were overloaded with opportunists who wanted their voice to be heard on the YouTube homepage.

Case Study 20

Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

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.

Participatory 51

Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I first met Mary in 2005 through my connection with the Global Voices community and can say that Mary is among the most knowledgeable and experienced digital activists in the world. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. .&# Mary Joyce is one of the thought leaders in the field. You can pick up a copy here.

Amazon 116

Amazon Nonprofit Social Media Oregon 116

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

Tunisia 104

Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104

Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

The lesson here is a really important one for today, and it’s this: the storytelling ego that’s so important in non-participatory media can be a liability in participatory media. Lesson: what myths are working for you in your game or participatory project? Most people can’t or won’t (certainly, they don’t) take that much time.

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Lesson Game San Diego Design 49

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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Arts Museum Artist Tucson 45

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2010

In the past, we've read about: museum theory in Civilizing the Museum by Elaine Heumann Gurian ( eight posts ) social media in Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernhoff ( five posts ) participatory projects in Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions edited by Kathleen McLean and Wendy Pollock ( four posts ) third places in The Great Good Place by Ray (..)

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Museum Participatory Culture Blogger 26

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

Participatory engagement invites people to answer a particular question or comment on a post. Engagement is also about how you make your followers think, feel, or act. The book includes some specific advice about the style and voice leaders need to use to establish rapport with their followers and build influence through engagement.

Digital 50

Digital Strategy Chapter Advice 50