Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. Judgment ???

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. I show the tool and then they say, “yeah, but we really want people to share their own stories about fly-swatters,” or, “we think our visitors can make amazing videos about justice.” You see the overall value of the project.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2003, my collaborator Stephanie and I began an excavation, declaring nothing for sale. George will respond to comments on this post and is also reachable here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The creative process of making films is opening up and the outreach efforts to spark social change through documentary media are becoming much more dynamic and collaborative. With a project like Granito, the film is only the beginning and serves as an invitation for everyone to share their story.

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Guatemala Movie Artist Award 93

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. Short story: we learned a lot. This project wove together many different participatory threads. We commissioned new collaborative artwork.

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Issue Childhood Community Create 45

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 not the only people with stories to tell.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work. This isn't even participatory. We throw those away.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above). He is an authoritative artist of the social web with a slew of accolades and a suite of diverse projects under his belt.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. They can contribute their own stories, objects, and creative work to exhibitions. We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

We''re offering internships this summer in: Participatory Exhibition Design. Help take the participatory elements of this permanent gallery to the finish line. Curious how we develop participatory family festivals with 20-100 collaborators every month. We''ve also been expanding paid opportunities for local artists.

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Participatory Community Museum History 20

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? They are frequently about real people's stories. Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?"

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

Within just a week of its creation, the "MAH Stories" private Facebook group had proven itself as a ridiculous success. People use it to share surprises in the archives, inspiring meetings with artists, dead birds in the lobby, and free food in the fridge. participatory museum professional development'

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Facebook Museum Participatory Adopt 55

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

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. 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. creative placemaking design participatory museum public space social bridging'

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. It's a story written from the vantage point of a few months or years from now.

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History Pennsylvania Michigan Indiana 26

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

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. Three years later, we''re out of turnaround and into growth mode.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Looking closer, I saw that each seat had its own handwritten label, telling the story of the Philadelphia cultural institution from which it originated. They were there for artist talks. Leave the process to the collaborators and give the product to the audience. The collaborators themselves are often hand-selected or nominated.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Through Spot.Us, the public can commission journalists to do investigations on important, and perhaps overlooked stories. Freelancers literally put their story ideas and their pitches up on our site, and they say, "This is the story I want to tackle." Just let us know what stories you're even starting to think of working on."

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Interview Fund Report Community 40

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.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. For example, in Santa Cruz there is a huge community of creative people who identify as artists in non-traditional media. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

This week, I read two stories about disagreeable flare-ups between institutions and consumers. Sadly, it was the second story that was about a museum. When those spaces are factored in, there are more than 250 works by female artists on view now. This afternoon, they issued a lengthy collaborative statement.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

2 Participatory Chinatown In this game, you're transported to Boston's Chinatown to view the development of new areas through the perspective of the varied citizens that make up their corner of the city. The story was tied into a comic book narrative and like Interro-bang, players were encourage to share their exploits via social media.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

At the adjacent table, my colleague Stacey Garcia was meeting with a local artist, Kyle Lane-McKinley, to talk about an upcoming project. I don't know what formed the bridge between the artists and the teens in this circumstance. On the third floor, they sat down in our creativity lounge and started making collages.

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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. This post appears here in excerpted form; you can read the whole story here. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators.

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