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. Notable AAPI athletes, journalists, or other public figures. If budget allows, run ads both in Asian language publications and general market newspapers/websites.

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Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

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.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Data.gov In brainstorming ideas to create Datamasher , the team spent a lot of time perusing data.gov and thinking about making government data more accessible by the average informed citizen. Applications like Datamasher would be far more numerous and effective if government made its data accessible over APIs. Open Standards.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. This means that not only have they turned their museum into an experimental project space, they have opened that space explicitly and intentionally to community co-production. It''s serious. Everyone has something they need.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

Visitors tell us how much they love the MAH, saying things like, “I love that the MAH holds very welcoming, accessible, open-minded and open-hearted space where people from every walk of life can gather and (re)create community.” We don’t have a town square in Santa Cruz, and people feel the acute lack of creative public space.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Obama administration is close to unveiling a new Open Government Directive to push agencies to become more transparent, accountable, and collaborative. The directive builds upon the memorandum on transparency and open government released by the administration in January, and was announced by US CTO Aneesh Chopra during the Gov 2.0

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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. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

But during the session on Learning in Public yesterday, with Beth Kanter, Co-Author of Networked Nonprofit, Jared Raynor from the TCC Group and Kathy Reich, from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I was reminded that all measurement needs to start with the most fundamental question – why measure?

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Evaluation Measure Seattle Lesson 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report opens with a look at current practices of using networks for citizen-centered social action that are promising for the future. We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory. What will be the nature of public participation and conversation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox. Net Neutrality needs all the publicity it can get because major media companies, surprise, don?t t want to make it a big story.

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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. As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

This is the last of the guest posts offered during this fall season, and it dovetails with last week''s post about opening up collections access nicely. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. open to anyone (minimize cultural bias). Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

It has wide sidewalks and lots of public transportation access points. But it''s not just for transportation; it''s also a huge swath of public space. In San Francisco, sidewalks account for 80% of all open space. The Market Street Prototyping Festival was not a typical public art exhibition. They were open books.

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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. Admirably, the Smithsonian has opened up their new media strategic planning via a public wiki. I admire all the people who are trying tirelessly to turn it towards more open, inclusive shores.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Sure, I admire cultural organizations that have a strong mission to change education or diversify access or transform the role of art in everyday life, but I'm an insider. A national election is the ultimate participatory project. We need more tools to open it up. It's a distraction from their experience at our venue.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The speakers wasted no time discussing the values and benefits when opening up the flow of information. Some presenters jumped at the chance to defend Jeffersonian principles through the timely release and transparency of public information. For too long, tight controls were placed on information released to the public.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The Exploratorium is great, but it wasn''t super-accessible. At that point, we opened three new locations: Sanger , Greenfield , and a new San Francisco workshop in the Excelsior neighborhood because the Mission has changed so dramatically. or free access to the dump to get materials. We assume the motivation is there.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. instead of what is?) Develop a "question of interest" that relates to your content.

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Technique Question Design Develop 52

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Marginalized populations lack access to digital technology yet aspire to participate meaningfully in the digital public sphere. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. As an organization, we did spend some time choosing a license and, from our perspective, a choice between openness and sharing which reduced to a choice between the Attribution and Attribution-Share-Alike license.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. Third places are defined by their accessibility. You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The general public is not a community. This seems a little ungenerous to museums; while institutions may bestow more love upon wealthy, elderly donors than the general visiting public, museums have actively courted mass audiences for years. Be open at times that your "community" is likely to come. Open your doors really wide.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. Openly invite collaboration by establishing and maintaining transparency about your partnerships with the public and fellow staff members. Can't wait to hear what you think.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Every non-spammer editor who signed up was granted full access to change and comment on the content.

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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. The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A Say you want to track mentions of a particular public issue or news item. You can open an account on flickr for free (although if you get a professional account you can upload more photos) and start using it in minutes. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. That means you can subscribe.

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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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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 123

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. Every issue cycle was the same: visitors would watch the video in silence, and then as soon as the voting opened, a murmur of conversation would run through the room. But it could go further.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

For the last two months, excited gamers have been debating the potential meaning of game-related minutae , including the fact that the Kennedy Center, which is administered by the Smithsonian, opened exactly 27 years to the day before the launch of Ghosts of a Chance. questions as in "What if we wanted to accession these artifacts?"

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend). The Catalyst for Change social impact study from the Glasgow Open Museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

In this way, Tree of Promise takes a quick participatory in-museum experience—writing down a promise—and provides a supportive platform on which users can cultivate and substantiate that action. Finding the right public social networks to tie into is a no-brainer--it gives you access to your visitors in a whole new way.

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Museum Social Network Case Study Discussion 20

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Philanthropy Southwest / Austin, TX / $625. General / @southwestfdns.

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Publicize and Monetize???

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. We then gave them access to referrals and you know what, 90% of the students did not follow up on the referrals. It’s multiple stakeholders, maybe it’s cross-sector, public, private. Is the approach accessible? How do we do this well?

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