Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Too often, cultural institutions design participatory projects that require visitors to learn new tools or make sacrifices to contribute. Read the original post on this project for more info.

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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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Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Social problems still endure, despite PM’s prominence as a way to ensure accountability and inform strategic decisions since the 1960’s. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. Actively evaluate PM processes and metrics. Use PM as one piece of information along with other perspectives.

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Measure Create Arizona Participatory 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process. Having active participation from and a relationship with the key audience means we can stay open to feedback and continuously improve. When the website launched, we knew it had a stronger foundation. Focus on content.

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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. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? Is this a problem? I think so.

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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. The exhibit opens.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

Foundations and grantmaking organizations are trying to untangle some of the world’s messiest problems: homelessness, food insecurity, climate change, and the rights of people who are often overlooked, to name a few. That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking?

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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? If your activity is compelling because it involves gimmicky new technology, it's not a good activity.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We have seven participatory elements in our current exhibitions on three floors, ranging from voting to talkback walls to an in-depth "make a memory jar" craft activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). For example, if you invite a participant to scribe, they cannot fully participate in the activity. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Two weeks ago, two of my staff members came to me with a problem. The problem? It was Friday, a few hours before the drawing activity, and my colleagues were worried that it would be too challenging for people to draw the icons and landmarks selected. They wanted to drop the activity.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2016

That means the next time you visit your favorite stretch of sand, you may not be able to fly a kite, throw a Frisbee or football, or enjoy any of the other activities you associate with a day at the beach….". The strategy narrative should convey to people the fact that your organization has a plan to address the problem.

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Challenge Strategy Participatory Roles 52

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."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

Ready for a math problem? Fifteen people engage in the prescribed activities. For me, Downward Draw provided an unusual opportunity to examine the more casual end of the participatory spectrum. A museum holds a free program in a semi-public space. Approximately 100 people walk by while the program is going on.

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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

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. They also had activities.

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Story Participatory Museum History 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. “ “It is more important to try something new, and work on the problems as they arise, than to figure out a way to do something new without having any problems.&#.

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Participatory Lesson Social Media Review 95

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

Hosted by a sound art collective, Ultra-red, the 2015 event promised "to investigate listening as a political activity and to interrogate the stakes of participation in neoliberalism." The problem, of course, is when you choose not to participate, most people don't see it as a noble protest. Most people don't notice at all.

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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. This is a Band-Aid, not addressing the main problem.” A mature employee knows how to manage up.

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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 the collaborative model, visitors are invited to serve as active partners in the creation of an institutional project which is originated and ultimately controlled by the institution.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Which profiles are you most active on? Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We see our visitors as partners in actively interpreting and exploring exhibition content. If you are working with us as an artist or contributor to an exhibition, you should expect that museum staff will create multi-modal, interdisciplinary, participatory, immersive, and social experiences around your work.

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Museum Artist Participatory History 38

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold. While that in itself probably qualifies us as one of India's largest children's book publishers, when compared to the scale of the problem - over 300 million children in India - it is still a minuscule effort. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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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. With one exception, no single activity cost more than $30 to produce/maintain.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.”

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. Letting myself ignore glaring problems that still exist. And so we wait, and we put them off, and eventually, we pretend they aren''t problems. They are still problems. Sometimes it is.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2011

This is a version of what I call "the petting zoo problem." An unnamed art museum once created an incredible interactive and participatory installation related to a temporary exhibition. Would visitors remember the puzzle or the exhibition around it? Is a contact high really sufficient when it comes to exhibition engagement?

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Museum Arts History Columbus 51

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Vary the activities. Facilitator bits.

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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. Looking at this challenge it is fairly obvious that this is not a problem that any one organization can solve. Like my friend Gautam John , I’ve been an advocate and donor to Creative Commons. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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License Participatory Culture India 93

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

So when the folks at the think tank asked us to make a media piece to address one problem we saw with the current setup, I decided to do a little experiment in visitor-driven navigation. But the activity itself WAS compelling, because of the fun conversations, unusual recommendations, and evocative photos. What would you do?

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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.”. Sometimes the enemy of innovation is not solving the right problem. Design thinking is a set of principles that includes—empathy with users, a discipline of prototyping, and tolerance for failure. New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! In the case of MN150, staff historians worked actively to verify and connect with contributors on any contentious topics.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. We focus on people who are culturally curious, actively creative… but may not see a traditional arts institution as a place for them. But if you aren't attacking a big problem through it all, what's the point?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

We've all become familiar with online retailers who address you by name and offer suggestions--some helpful, some annoying--based on your past activity and purchases. When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour. But they aren't just fun ways to express yourself.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I figured out that I could offer teaching, training, consulting activities online. I interviewed ten online educators in five countries about how they planned and organized collaborative learning activities. Since then, I've incorporated as Vision2Lead and started teaching online for Capella University.

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