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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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.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The new building was designed to meet neighborhood needs--not just in the content covered, but in the inclusion of spaces made for particular kinds of activities sought by locals (i.e. The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. But participatory facilitation can be taught. a "wedding worthy" community hall).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Participants will walk away with a set of guiding principles and tactics to develop media, events and activities that encourage connections and local leadership among your stakeholders to increase your organizational reach and impact. This session will include a presentation, discussion and small group scenarios.

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Proposal Louisiana Map NTEN 134

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. Facilitator bits. Vary the activities. You did great.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Can you describe your experience at the 14LCS? Plus, my track facilitators were great!) One thing I did almost immediately was make some basic changes to our organizational website based on the group work we did related to user experience. What is your organization''s mission? I found the Summit to be valuable and inspiring.

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Donation Impact Share NTEN 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

deation Conference is intentionally formatted to create a rich learning and sharing experience. Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. The hope is that these various experiences will lead to inspiration, encouragement, new explorations.

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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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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 ). Which profiles are you most active on?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? New Technology for New Power Movements.

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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 repeat experience is progressively familiar, so I feel like I am entering a space with known faces. The bus stops where you want.

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Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. 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. I think of us guides as “museum personal trainers”.

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Museum Interview New York Interaction 55

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

You should have a credible and understandable offer, alongside your ask of their time, experience, and expertise. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Build on their existing expertise/experience/perspective as opposed to asking them to comment on yours.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The notion of a community is really tricky because every web page is a latent community, waiting to be activated.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. The experiment requires you to go to a public space and do three things: Talk to a stranger. Spring is here and it’s time to talk to strangers.

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Design Experiment Seattle Social 20

Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

The result was a true experiment in designing the future--right here, right now--with artists and planners and civic leaders at the helm together. What kind of cultural experience offers the right kind of invitation and opportunity for pedestrians in public space? Invitation works better than confrontation.

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San Francisco Arts Design Marketing 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

Going to MAH and seeing the LOVE exhibition on First Friday was a wonderful experience. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. With one exception, no single activity cost more than $30 to produce/maintain.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Here are four surprising things Oldenburg describes about third places—characteristics I think would be quite difficult for cultural institutions to assume: The primary attraction of a third place is the patrons, not the décor, the hosts, or the activities provided by management. People make fun of each other and laugh loudly.

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. I think so.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

But the best reason I can imagine has to do with barriers and shared experience. Out on the boardwalk, or at the zoo or a museum, there's a common experience of the sights, sounds, smells, activities of the place. Ideas participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences visitors. You'd have to do it face to face.

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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. 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?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

Rock climbing (safely) is a two-person activity. The gym staff aren’t offering instruction or serving as users’ partners; instead, they facilitate connections among the users. If done right, it can be a financially light way to make visitors feel that the museum is an active, social place. What other ideas are out there?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

The cards were a brilliant touch--they helped structure the day, supported simple prioritizing and sorting activities, and gave participants with a tangible, reusable take-home. 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.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. Use the authority of the museum to facilitate exchange of phone numbers between strangers?" We do that with staff all the time.

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

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. Not only does the activity support local artists, it challenges how outsiders and insiders engage with each other and share knowledge in a conference setting. But will the conversations improve the overall experience?

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. On many levels, The Tech Virtual experiment was a success. It also focused the experience.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

All of this real-world experience is grounded in rigorous research and is taught by successful marketers who face your same challenges. Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants. Feb 22 - 24. MECLABS / Las Vegas, NV / Less than $1,700.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I’ll share some lessons as we go, experiences that I’ve had, and how to also manage different stakeholders and people. So just before we start, I wanted you to sit a bit and think about your experience with strategic planning.

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Community Video Slides Survey 77

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor. They were roped to very specific locations and activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Day 3, Mary Joyce will lead a workshop on digital activism using the Story of Electronics , an environmental-themed short film, as a case study and jumping off point for a workshop exercise to create a digital campaign. A Networked organization is more than just the electronic infrastructure and tools that facilitate communication.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The theory of change involves both encouraging local economic activity—increasing the economic multiplier effect, in technical parlance—while fostering bonds of community. The experiment proved successful. Of course, this is an experiment, and the proof of concept remains in the execution.

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Local Digital Experiment Alternative 104

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

This can be an incredibly technical topic, as it focuses on the ways that platforms (online, exhibits, museums) can harness the individual activities of many visitors and create meaningful experiential outputs that connect people to each other. The Simplicity of Pointing And this brings us back to Race.

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