Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. Parque Explora opened ten years ago as a community development project. Parque Explora's staff are deeply committed to co-creative, ambitious, community building work (read a bit about their community work here ). There wasn't one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. My Three Themes: . Reflection helps energize me and helps me focus.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

We develop our skills by seeking, absorbing, questioning, adapting, and experimenting, oftentimes bringing diverse influences together to create something that’s unique for our clients’ needs, but with connections to other relevant spaces. This is key to building relevant brands. What would the structure be like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. Issue System: This system is where the non-profit is one of many entities that are working to address an issue such as health care, deforestation, peace, and community development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I taught a section on developing and implementing an effective content strategy after some exercises to help participants identify target audiences, create personas, measurable objectives, and channels. .” My question, what is the first step you can take towards building this continuous improvement process in your organization?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

They talked about community building. I don’t think there is a way to directly build community. We can’t sit down and say, “let’s go build some community.” Participation is one (of many) tactics for building community. And so today I want to talk about building community: the who , the how , and the why of it.

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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 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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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

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What if a funder got real-time input from its grantees and other partners to develop its investment strategy? What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”.

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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 also developed the site so each submitted photo had its own URL and threaded comment stream so discussions could take place around the submitted works. gallery closes.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

This section has great tips on peer-to-peer applications and discusses its benefits such as the ability to grow your database, build community and constituent loyalty and expand fundraising. Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. We did not ask people to design whole exhibits and hand over CAD drawings so we could build them.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

This year was a year of building, challenging, and strengthening. Building an amazing team. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Audience development is not an exercise in concentric circles. Audience development is not an exercise in concentric circles. Fabulous!" "But This is incredibly scary.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

This section has great tips on peer-to-peer applications and discusses its benefits such as the ability to grow your database, build community and constituent loyalty and expand fundraising. Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand."

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Crowd Sourcing Innovative Social Change panel Sunday, March 14 at 03:30 PM – “Social media builds buzz and raises money, but what about real, on-the-ground change? Let them show you how to create an organic net-roots movement that upends traditional power structures and galvanizes your community.". ” 13.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I sat down with Kristen Denner, Director of Membership and Annual Fund, to learn more about the program's development and the museum's goals for its future. First, we realized that our museum is different from other museums, but our benefits and membership structure were the same as others. How did this project start?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Each design choice impacts the amount of thought and efforts visitors will put into their responses and the extent to which they will stay on-topic or proactively build on other visitors' arguments. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Governance.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. Annual Conference for Development Researchers. Annual Conference for Development Researchers. Today, we're excited to announce the all-new list for 2017!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Institutions tying their online and onsite activities, as the Ontario Science Centre did when it hosted a YouTube meetup , or the Smithsonian American Art Museum did when they developed an alternate reality game. But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. There is funding.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. way to the future?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

Last week, I wrote about MuseumCamp , the annual professional development event we hold in Santa Cruz. MuseumCamp was inspired by other action-oriented professional development experiences, ranging from open-ended unconferences to tightly-formatted tinkering workshops. Build structures to support meeting each other.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I wish I could see you all because so much of what we do in this work is building community. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. So as leaders, our job is to help build upon that momentum but also create that infrastructure. . Here we go. Julie: All right. How do we do this well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work. So, now is the fun part. The power of Del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. There are different ways you can design this project, but this is a very simple approach that you can build on later.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

a democratically structured non-profit which issues the local currency; the Schumacher Center (which retains its affiliation with BerkShares, Inc.); Beyond the direct advantage to small merchants, digital BerkShares’ competitive fee structure is meant to keep more area capital at work in the Berkshires.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. They suggest these three tasks for starters: (1) assess (2) channel their harshest critic, and (3) develop a mobilization capacity. Companies should be especially careful about building engagement platforms without developing engagement cultures, a recipe for failure.).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

On one side is DNA evidence, which was developed through the scientific method, and on the other side are a raft of quasi sciences and unreliable memories. Finally we engaged Theo Grey, one of the first developers for the iPad who had started a British company called Touch Press. So we had the key players. That’s not easy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

Why and how museums could develop their co-creative practice with the public, building on ideas from the performing arts and other non-museum organisations (free to download). When an institution becomes wholly participatory, those distinctions often erode. That's not to say these structures came easy.

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