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. Humans empower each other. Build community.

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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. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Make the event family-friendly and accessible to enable broad participation. Offer childcare, wheelchair access, multi-lingual materials, etc. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Engage AAPI leaders and elders to gain their support and input.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. In the pre-planning, make sure the route you pick is accessible for wheel chair users to navigate. … Read More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

I’ve always dreamed of accessing a diverse network of people who do nonprofit capacity across different disciplines or what Nancy White has described as “ learning from adjacent practices.” Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations. Funder misalignment on movement needs.

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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. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to help support the NTEN Community Challenge , which helped to enhance NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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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 gave numerous examples of how pervasive access to the Internet has changed families, the nature of work and society. Instructional Design Notes.

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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 ).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. You can mount challenges that are effective in spreading the word and making our message accessible to more people who can make their own decisions. Low barrier to entry.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2014

NetSuite.org Opportunities for Consultants : Learn how to access hundreds of NetSuite grantees needing change management, accounting, ERP, CRM, website and other services. An idea generator is a facilitated discussion where attendees talk about problems they face in their social-benefit work. Discussion Topic. 10am – 3pm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. Also, having weekly summaries that can be shared in other mediums can make the information accessible to others who don't want to participate on Twitter. This takes some facilitation. What are your best resources about hashtags?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The Exploratorium is great, but it wasn''t super-accessible. The municipal support can be actual funding - from Parks and Rec, or Environmental Education/Public Works in Watsonville - or a free building, or free access to a van, or materials. or free access to the dump to get materials. Easy access to the space.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

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. We were encouraged to use our smartphones to search accession numbers if we wanted to dig deeper than the copy on the wall. Dinosaurs seem pretty accessible.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

It has wide sidewalks and lots of public transportation access points. While "final" versions of these prototypes would need to stand alone on the sidewalk, the best prototypes are facilitated. Facilitation has a dual function: the artists learn what worked and didn''t, and visitors learn what the projects are all about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Our strategy has relied upon being part of a larger mission, providing meaningful and valuable content, curating information and content for the community, using a legal framework that allows for a participatory culture and lastly, in time, providing a space for the community to assist in the mission by creating content themselves.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Marginalized populations lack access to digital technology yet aspire to participate meaningfully in the digital public sphere. Tasks are accessed on-demand, from anywhere, at any time -- while riding the bus, waiting in the doctor’s office, standing in line at the post office, and more. Who are they and what are they working on?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Third places are defined by their accessibility. Third places facilitate engagement among patrons, whereas museums and libraries deliver services to patrons. Third places are more participatory and offer fewer basic amenities than most cultural institutions provide. Regulars may drop in multiple times a day.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Tags: participatory museum professional development. But the Smithsonian, as Elaine Gurian once wrote , is an ocean liner.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Facilitators have many superpowers, and like superheroes, many of those powers may be invisible to others.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

This relationship bit helped me think about how different kinds of folks will be involved with a highly participatory, community-co-created project in the long-term. It seems that most L3Cs are large organizations, and they are formed as L3Cs specifically to access program-related investments (PRIs). Here's a brief primer on PRIs.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

From reports in a PDF to emails letting you know of a staff change, storing information in a grants management system gives everyone access to the information who needs it—the data is not tied up in one person’s email or cloud storage. Are you looking at incorporating more participatory grantmaking principles?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

A person is randomly designated as the facilitator for a 15 minute discussion on each of the topics in the envelope. It will be interesting to see how people react to the conference and whether they feel valued or put upon in the participatory sessions. At each table there will be an envelope with questions inside.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

At level four, the visitor has some awareness of how other distinct visitors respond to the issue and can access their comments and opinions. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum interactives. At level three, the visitor is polled about the issue and sees her result compared to the cumulative aggregate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The Wikimedia Foundation ambitiously envisions a “world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” Next, consultants helped facilitate an asynchronous process involving a wide set of stakeholders using an online wiki to write and edit sections of the plan.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

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. Where are we not putting our energy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. You can think of it as having 24/7 access to another users filing cabinet, but each user's collection of bookmarks helps to build an rich knowledge network. Del.icio.us The power of Del.icio.us the work of copyright holders. Enterprise 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. The same thing applies to exhibits, but Second Life is a tool that facilitates making the exhibit in a more accessible way than full-scale fabrication.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads. Is the approach accessible? How do we do this well?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Deconstructing the Social Experience As a designer of participatory experiences, my biggest question about Artprize is what made all these conversations and experiences happen in the first place. The free and accessible venues? Was it the gritty urban setting? The prizes? The extreme variety of works? This bore out at Artprize.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Diversity Abroad Annual Conference constitutes the most comprehensive national forum on issues of access, diversity, and inclusion in international education. Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants. Diversity Abroad Conference. Diversity.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

As the director of education at a small science museum, Woody thought it would be useful for his staff to share and have access to demos being offered by science museums all over the country. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. But wikis are a very specific tool. sites and don't offer traditional rewards.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The addition of a digital platform to the local paper currency will make BerkShares more accessible for users while broadening access for merchants. and Humanity Cash , a tech venture focused on alternative digital currencies. From the beginning , BerkShares has been about much more than just another way to pay for goods and services.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Faster access to capital and removal of administrative burden have become the clarion-call from nonprofits struggling to meet the intensified demand of constituents. And, this new data must be easily discoverable and accessible throughout an organization. 2020 will be remembered as the year that changed grantmaking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2006

This is an excellent analysis of the issue of corporate control and ownership of your participatory media. Likewise, sites such as MySpace gather information on their users. to use in future marketing campaigns, or sell on to interested parties.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

From this naturally flows our engagement in the question of "LAM convergence:" how these institutions live out their similar missions of access and preservation in daily practice and how they overlap as spaces for civic engagement. And John Cotton Dana's department store model is an interesting one.

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