Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. This includes integrating moving around into small groups or share pairs as well as standing & stretching. My audience included many people who were blind. This is important if you have people with mobility issues.

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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? The first of these reasons is practical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. s interest to education and engage new audiences. Britt Bravo who is also the Flickr Affinity Group wrote about Oxfam America Campaign here. It describes various sub-groups of consumer co-created content.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The best participatory projects are useful. Rather than just doing an activity, visitors should be able to contribute in a way that provides a valuable outcome for the institution and the wider museum audience. Like the best participatory projects , this postcard activity is constrained but not limiting.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. (Early bird registration ends on July 31 and scholarship information is here. What are the points of pain, strengths, and opportunities?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

They invite people to participate: in design , prototyping , artifact interpretation , collections preparation , audience development. They host public co-making events, invite groups to book workshops directly, engage on twitter and tumblr , and encourage drop-in participation. It''s serious. Everyone has something to give.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Deeper community relationships through focus groups or community advising committees can further help museums connect with issues relevant to their communities while also hold the museum accountable for their responses. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? They catered to different audiences. I'd heard before about Riverside's development, which involved many community focus groups, workshops, and talkbacks. These displays were memorable. They taught us something new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

In the afternoon, I did workshop and put the audience right on the cat walk with me. This workshop was an experiment in the interactive lecture and lots of small groups. Giving the audience a chance to interact and discuss content in full groups, share pairs, and small groups allowed for some great stories to emerge from the group.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

There are group and individual experiences. And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. The only exclusive group is the inactives--everyone else overlaps. Which exhibits allow them to aggregate selections from a group?

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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? Who is your audience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. The rest of the day was spent in small group discussions framed around different issues. Akhtar Badshah captured the story in this blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

And the Producers Institute is a 10-day workshop that brings together a select group of documentary filmmakers and technologists to create outreach and activism strategies using online and mobile tools for activism. Together, Fox and Fledgling developed an intensive outreach strategy through more than 500 community screenings.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum. This is the participatory platform model. Instead of "doing the thing" directly, our staff make space for community members to do the thing--and to do so beautifully, proudly, with and for diverse audiences. Nine years later, I still believe this.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I was intrigued and curious to learn more, but also skeptical of the merits of an outside group running roughshod in The Met. As you stand amongst the portraits, share your tale of deception, love, mystery, and intrigue with the rest of the group. Who is the audience for Museum Hack? You are a museum insider and a content geek.

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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 co-option model, the institution turns over a portion of its facilities and resources to support programs developed and implemented by external public groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” Sample survey.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The man is artist Rocky Lewycky , whose work is part of a group show of visual artists who have won a prestigious regional fellowship. I''ve seen participatory artworks that lay untouched by visitors because the invitation to participate is not explicit enough. He takes a crowbar out of a Swiss Army backpack. This is not a crime.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. It's often intended for an audience that I only barely understand through the ways they respond and interact with the work. To recreate childhood photographs.

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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. Ask the question several different ways to different groups of people.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2011

Last month, I learned about a fabulous, simple participatory experiment called “Case by Case” at the San Diego Museum of Natural History that uses visitor feedback to develop more effective object labels. Our exhibits group knocked around ideas for mechanisms of audience feedback.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The people who are part of a specific community are the experts in that field, and they should be part of the creative process, not just used to “run ideas by,” or as focus groups when we conduct user-testing. The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

In her talk, Jacobi noted: "Traditionally marginalized groups like indigenous populations or the grassroots women in Haiti, when they are just telling their own stories, often they are not listened to. But when they can back it up with evidence, that's more recognized by a more Western audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

Having 300 people and doing a participatory style of teaching gave me an opportunity to use some of my facilitation techniques for large groups that are in my tool set – and because colleagues have asked me to share tips about it, expect that in another blog post next week.). It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

In GISKIN, Pandora and Drake aren’t museum people: they have no special knowledge; they ask the same questions the audience is asking and don’t always get answers. They leave LOTS of room for the audience to ask their own questions and fill in their own answers. What a relief it was to not have to worry about that.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

These include community arts groups, social service agencies, environmental groups, social clubs, and many inspiring individuals whom we can't thank enough. These collaborators brought their own audiences along with their abilities, which introduced a lot of new people to the museum. Right now, all we do is count people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

” The following games are expanding the reach of various nonprofits and helping them connect with audiences in meaningful ways. government and encouraging participatory democracy. ” Senate Immersion Module. Kennedy (EMK) Institute to support it in educating the public about U.S.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. How do these issues relate to the mission and audience of your museum? Can we be as brave and direct as these young women?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The most popular and relevant resolutions were grouped into four areas-- empowering supporters, using social media networks, focusing on the needs of supporters and making websites user-friendly. Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand."

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

The group was energetic and excited (and didn't even complain when I sent them on a photo scavenger hunt around the conference center), and you can access the materials and see some of their work on the We Are Media Wiki. Another way of creating an unforgettable impression with your audience is by stunning them with words.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

The group was energetic and excited (and didn't even complain when I sent them on a photo scavenger hunt around the conference center), and you can access the materials and see some of their work on the We Are Media Wiki. Another way of creating an unforgettable impression with your audience is by stunning them with words.

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