Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. we had to quickly pivot and learn new technologies and platforms to move their galas and events virtual. As we look to make an impact, how can we invite community members to create with us from the start? fancy food!

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Design Experiment Nonprofit Collaboration 52

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

We don't have the same limitations when designing talkback stations and other physical platforms for conversation, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't intentionally design the conversational tools offered. If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

On platforms with many participatory options, more people are more active. I think this diversification is key to inviting broad audiences to feel meaningfully involved in participatory projects. I write blog posts on a platform where you can comment. I'm as guilty of this as anyone.

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Game Museum Participatory Comment 20

Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place, and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts!

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Storytelling Collaboration Video Thailand 67

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. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. We took a HUGE risk when we trusted our audience to help us create something cool, not only on the web, but in a museum. This common thread unifies a multi-platform project like Oh Snap!

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Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

As I pointed out, the use of social media as a new communication platform introduces serious security and privacy concerns, including new vectors for cyberattack, that government and military organizations cannot ignore. cannot be ignored by the government and military.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand." Get the low down on social media platforms and what social and participatory media entails. Convio lays out simple steps to creating a website that is easier to navigate and more useful to your target audiences.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Between the giant squid brainstorming and experimentation, I gave a talk to the larger Smithsonian Institution about multi-platform museum experiences. It's like an organizational game of madlibs.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand." Get the low down on social media platforms and what social and participatory media entails. Convio lays out simple steps to creating a website that is easier to navigate and more useful to your target audiences.

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Social Media Difference Advocacy Case Study 28

Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

A year ago, I wrote about the potential of Twitter as a platform-agnostic service; you can send and receive tweets on the web, on your phone as text messages, on instant message clients, and on a variety of downloadable applications (like Twitterific , which I use for the Mac). If I told you I'd created a participatory website in which 0.3%

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. When people share their photos of your museum, they promote and spread your content to new audiences in authentic ways.

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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! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Make room for personal expression and ownership--both by staff and audience members. We know from copious audience research that the social experience is one of the most cited reasons that people visit and enjoy museums. Support and enhance relationships through consistent multi-platform engagement. We hang out.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

To be successful (and hopefully essential), museums and libraries need to pursue new models in which we provide platforms for social engagement, transitioning from providing designed, controlled experiences to comfortable venues for people and discourse. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. That's not part of our mission!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

Games are already highly participatory, but over the last few years game designers have been giving players more control over the gameworld and experience. Strangely, Spore is being billed as casual game, or even a toy, and is focusing on audiences that don't want to log hundreds of hours deep in the intricacies of a complex game.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. And we realized of course that the majority audience would be watchers, not storytellers. How and why did Object Stories come to be?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The exhibition uses the stories of three remarkable children in history as a launching point for a platform on which kids and families can make “promises” for how they will impact or change the world. It is an integral part of a new permanent exhibition, The Power of Children. Note that even the content of this exhibition is focused on 2.0-style

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. I believe we need to develop museum "platforms" that allow us to harness, prioritize, and present the diversity of voices around a given object, exhibit, or idea. Power is attractive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. If you have a small budget, you might consider a blogging platform like typepad for the ease of use.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

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. I also point things out to a mass audience when I post ideas to Twitter or Facebook.

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Social Network Tech Network Museum 22

Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

And with so many social fundraising platforms available, each with slightly different features, a unique personality, and selling point, how do you choose the one that's right for you. In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

This conference will be the platform for improving public awareness and receptivity to direct and interactive market driven philanthropy. and discover how to reach your audiences more directly through social and digital media, while still landing placements through the national press or your local newspapers and broadcast stations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. First, a smaller quibble.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 18, 2019

Crowdfunding platforms such as Kickstarter and Go Fund Me have shown great potential in terms of helping ambitious teams bring their visions to fruition. To that end, it might be a good idea to incorporate text editing platforms such as Grammarly into your writing process. Give clear participatory instructions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. Over the last week, there’s been a lively discussion on the wiki about the key audiences and goal of the book, and I wanted to open that up to you (and you are, of course, welcome to join the wiki and help). And there’s a third reason.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival. But participatory cultures on the Internet take on a new quality, a new scale, and new capabilities.”. How can crowdsourcing help my nonprofit organization in Arizona?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

I keep in my head a Venn diagram that has three circles--one is passion, the second is funding, and the third is audience. I always have a strong feel for the passion and funding part of the venn diagram, but I am less confident of my understanding of our audiences. Is there a target audience for the project? If so, whom?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What started as an ad hoc group of volunteers is growing into an impressive organization building out a platform that can be deployed for different purposes, from election monitoring to disaster relief. (Even in unintended and surprising ways ). I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2007

Almost every part of each weekend, from the ceremonies (open guided discussion) to the meals (homemade) was participatory. Instead, I think we uncovered one of the secrets to creating successful participatory experiences: people like to feel useful. The same dynamic plays out when it comes to participatory museum experiences.

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Collaboration Participatory Museum Exercise 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The goal, from IMLS’s standpoint, is for NAS to create a report that can address the fundamental issues facing museums and libraries in the 21st century, with an intended audience of industry professionals, trustees, funding sources, and government representatives. Of course, that audience is a long way from seeing such a report.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Our collective understanding and savviness about the power online platforms wield--for good and ill--has greatly increased since 2008. This post provides some useful perspective if you have these fears or are grappling with those who are fearful.

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