Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube.

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OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. So what did you do next?

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MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube.

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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." " He describes what Ian observed what happened with his youth audience. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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OCTOBER 23, 2018

Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever. 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. This project wove together many different participatory threads.

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JULY 23, 2014

In the fall of 2013, they launched Re:Make , an ambitious project to redevelop the museum, live, on the floor, with a mix of staff, guest artists, and community members. And perhaps most ambitiously, they see it as a community-based project. It''s a shared space and process. They see it as the future of their museum.

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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 a known (and somewhat controllable) entity.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Furthermore, how can museums and communities work together to share strengths in the community? Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

One of the most compelling products of the Producers Institute is a project associated with the award-winning film Granito: How to Nail a Dictator , which depicts the genocidal civil war in Guatemala. 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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

They were there for artist talks. They were there for project brainstorming. It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs. This makes Temple Contemporary excel at responsive, relevant projects.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2012

We wanted to share with people, in as clear and transparent a format as possible, our approach to developing exhibitions. In particular, we want exhibition collaborators--artists, researchers, historians, collectors--to understand our goals and how we intend to steer the exhibition development process.

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AUGUST 28, 2013

The DAM is one of several large art museums that is embracing making in a big way—first, through their event-based programming and open art studios tied to temporary exhibitions, and now, through a 1,200 square foot studio in which visitors can do art projects tied to the permanent collection.

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APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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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. Please share yours in the comments. Artists work incredibly hard to produce their work.

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MAY 3, 2017

Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out. Partnering in community taught me to think like an organizer: listen, connect, build shared purpose. Building the Abbott Square project taught me a whole new mindset: that of the real estate developer. We develop the projects.

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JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. As important as excellence is, shared success is equally important in this field. In this case, I find the most interesting ones to be made by artists. Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late.

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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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AUGUST 14, 2013

One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. In this post, she writes about Experimonth, an intriguing set of crowd-sourced projects that connect scientists with research participants in surprising ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. s Blog about?

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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. Market Street is a central artery of San Francisco. They were open books.

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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. What values change in that not so subtle shift between people, things, and the common space shared between them?

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OCTOBER 31, 2012

The Arts Dinner-vention Project - date TBD. Read more about the project and how to participate here. We're working with participatory online artist Ze Frank on an exhibition at the MAH this winter that features the missions, creations, and explorations of his current web series, A Show. Yes you can apply now.

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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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MAY 29, 2013

Sarah and some of her colleagues in visitor services feel disconnected from the work that happens "upstairs" in the office and in our creative project development. People use it to share surprises in the archives, inspiring meetings with artists, dead birds in the lobby, and free food in the fridge. This problem is nothing new.

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OCTOBER 30, 2013

This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school. Our theory of change posits that when we develop projects that bridge “unexpected connections” between diverse people and ideas, people build understanding and social capital with community members from different cultures, generations, and backgrounds.

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JANUARY 18, 2012

There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2015

For the past two years, I''ve been working on a project to activate the concrete space adjacent to our museum as a vibrant, community plaza. The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

National education organizations and individual teachers are developing relevant curriculum resources, including the #FergusonSyllabus project initiated by Dr. Marcia Chatelain. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies.

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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." You can write a vision for yourself, your organization, your project, or your team. It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be.

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DECEMBER 26, 2012

This Createquity article by Talia Gibas on " Unpacking Shared Delivery of Arts Education " was so useful to me that I shared it with our whole advisory group. EMCArts put out a brief report from their recent study on how arts organizations deal with conflict around new ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I've been reading Henry Jenkin's book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide" - I ordered after I heard him speak at the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning briefing (Nancy Schwartz recently wrote about it here ) and read his white paper on participatory culture. s creations with others 3.

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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.”. The Brainerd Foundation shared some of their initial thinking and curiosity about 21 st Century. Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project. Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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MARCH 28, 2012

We don't want to wear them out on standing meetings or ongoing projects that may not draw on their talents. C3 invites people to cross-pollinate and share ideas--the most promising of which we will follow up on to plan new programs. Here are the slides so you can see what we shared. It was an evening meeting with beer and chips.

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MAY 9, 2012

Ellen shared the brilliant work at Conner Prairie to make finances transparent to all staff. The lead photo on this post is from a project I saw when I visited last spring. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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APRIL 16, 2008

This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. It’s not unusual for us to meet with an environmental activist, a balloon artist, a farmer, and the Mayor of Santa Cruz all in one day.

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