Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

I know this sounds strange coming from someone writing an admittedly self-expressive blog post, but hear me out. When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Note from Beth: I first encountered Nina Simon through her awesome blog back four or five years ago. I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Science has an answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Why do we do what we do if not to make people’s lives better, their communities safer or increase access to quality education? We are convinced of the importance of inclusive and participatory design and planning of organizational strengthening interventions. Who is defining results anyway?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). You can download and read the full version of my thesis here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

So expect some live blogging, and reflections. Mark Horvath shared how he searches on Twitter for the words "homeless" and either educates or empowers. The conference reminded me of Blog Potomac organized by fellow Zoetican Geoff Livingston. I was invited to participate in the first inaugural !deation

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

blog posts from the past. Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

As environmental educator David Sobel has written , "If we want children to flourish, to become truly empowered, then let us allow them to love the Earth before we ask them to save it." When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act. There was no specific instruction with the dots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing Change for Good by Nedra Kline Weinreich.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. The assessment helps educate people about the symptoms of burnout before it becomes too late. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

New laws and policies will help, but any movement toward greater cultural and racial understanding and communication must be supported by our country’s cultural and educational infrastructure. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. What should be our role(s)? We know that this is not the case. inclusion'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

They also offer any reader of Beth’s Blog a special discount code of 10% on the conference registeration (use this code: 10beth when you register ) Meghan Ventura from Games for Change has wrote this guest post about how nonprofits are using games to leverage their missions. . government and encouraging participatory democracy.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). The marketing team promoted the project with outreach to several road trip and roadside attraction-related websites and blogs, but the creative control of the project belonged to Chris and Lucy. What happened?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Last week, I had the honor of participating on a keynote panel at Celgene Corporation’s Patient Partners annual meeting ahead of the ASCO Conference (ASCO is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, prevention and delivery of high-quality patient care). This “Dr.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! was awarded a Knight 2010 News Challenge grant for Stroome , a collaborative video editing and publishing platform designed to. also blogs for the Huffington Post. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

I got an invitation to live blog this, but unfortunately it is in NYC and I'm in New England. But wait a second, I could attempt to live blog remotely. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. I would love to hear Howard Gardner talk about digital learning. The John D.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. You can read a full report on the exhibition process, including lots of quotes from the young curators, staff, and educators involved, here [pdf]. it's a Secret! , The exhibition was open for 54 days and was visited by 14,000 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In this article, 10 Steps to Effective Listening , by educator Dianne Schilling provides the basic building blocks to effective listening. These techniques are described in more detail in “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. 2: Be present, practice mindful listening to the other person.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum. Dear Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. Whether on blogs or talk-back walls, people are more conscious about their comments when they know their name will be associated with their work. In the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

These programs involved cultural, educational and training efforts that used interactive theater and storytelling. I interviewed ten online educators in five countries about how they planned and organized collaborative learning activities. These courses are designed for adult learners, using a " scholar-practitioner " model.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! A regular contributor to PBS MediaShift Idea Lab, Tom also blogs for the Huffington Post. Aaron Bramley is the Co-founder and Director of Communication/Education for Lights. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

blog, and it got me thinking about how and why I first started doing this. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs 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 made some unexpected decisions along the way.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

And then I started talking with Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, a UC Berkeley psychologist who blogs under the title Are We Born Racist? It''s impossible to process everything I am learning from these four psychologists in just one blog post. This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school.

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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 strategy is: make it work really well, research what works and doesn't, and share the design lessons with the world. There's a whole section of this blog called Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 20, 2007

There's no doubt a health education component will be key to the project's success. A preliminary health survey showed that by far the most serious problem confronting the village is malaria, and that is the area where work will begin. Check out the Siguida ' website - there are lots of ways you can help this great community effort.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This blog post is a love letter to an exhibit, written in patchouli ink across the back of an old Janis Joplin record. It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it. I happened to be at DAM for work and got to experience this amazing exhibit. We’re all together, man.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

If you say, “we need a blog,” others in your organization won’t know how to contextualize that within the programs and mission of the institution. Or maybe education staff are not willing to engage real-time visitors in dialogue around controversial issues. Second, you need to find the right tool to implement your idea.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. The design constraint is simple to understand, specific enough to be interesting, and doesn't prescribe the output. The exhibition design suggests both democracy and intimacy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

the comments on this one, including a response manifesto by educational technologist Ira Socol. have established viability in two ways—via designed experiences (exhibits, programs, courses) and access to assets (artifacts, books). Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion. Why are our current models failing?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. For example, in Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives, knowledge and comprehension of content comes before application. Narratively, this makes sense.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I was the project manager/curator for the exhibition, leading both the Second Life-based community exhibit design process and the real world translation of virtual exhibits. We shrunk the exhibit design process (concept to floor) from 2 years to five months. One exhibit designer told me, "we never seem to lack for good ideas.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

It took me a couple weeks (and various museum blog responses ) to realize what bugs me about this article--it treats "connecting with community" as a marketing ploy, a "mantra" rather than a mission. Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. And so I'd like to suggest a few other ways to "connect with community."

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Openness or How Do You Design for the Loss of Control? " The internet: is it changing the way we think? That’s how you learn practices.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The irritating design? I think it's a good thing that people, when given a forum online to individually express themselves, seize the opportunity to make their MySpace pages and post pics of their cats on their blogs. Tags: participatory museum visitors. When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind?

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