sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

To learn more about knowledge work and its role in grantmaking, check out the post Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work is Core to Equitable Change. However, datamaking has added power because it can beused to deepen strategic social processes of foundation-funded change.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. In its first five years, Our Museum yielded real change at twelve diverse UK organizations. Most major change doesn't happen when things are going well.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

Our ability to collaborate effectively in the cloud and create meaningful media together is quickly evolving as more nonprofits expand their borders. For Nonprofits Live on February 8th we will explore how to collaborate on video stories across borders and office boundaries. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I feel lucky to be a small part of that change. That said, there are a couple big things I got wrong in the book - or at least, that I''ve changed my perspective on since writing it. Humans empower each other. Make space for each other.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Since the theme this year was “Change Making,” I taught a workshop on self-care for change makers based on my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , co-authored with Aliza Sherman. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

Her report touched on the need for sector collaboration, celebrating mistakes and failures, and innovation. The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery. I’ll share that in my next post!

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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." Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

In this guest post, Stefania Van Dyke, Master Teacher for Textile Art and Special Projects, tells the story of how the co-creative development and visitor participation in the “Thread Studio” that accompanied their 2013 summer exhibition, Spun, changed her perspective on her own work. exhibition guestpost inclusion participatory museum'

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009). There is no golden standard.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? The exhibit is dynamic and changes somewhat in response to visitors' actions. But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." The exhibit opens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Museum 2.0

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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever. This project wove together many different participatory threads. We commissioned new collaborative artwork. It empowered our partners, deeply touched our visitors, and catalyzed real community change. What did we learn?

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Participatory. Collaborative. Participatory. Collaborative. If I'm not mistaken, a somewhat famous social activist once said, " You must be the change you want to see in the world." San Francisco and Washington DC are collaborating around API accessiblity for their 311 phone lines. Transparent.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. I heard fresh ideas, stories, and challenges in each room. They were more committed.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

In this post, George grapples with the challenges of balancing the care for a museum collection with that of contemporary artists-in-residence who are constantly reinterpreting it. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Note from Beth: I went to my first Games for Change Festival ten years ago, in 2005 and have been a fan and supporter ever since. Games — both digital and analog — provide a great opportunity for inviting players to interact with a real-world causes and societal challenges. government and encouraging participatory democracy.

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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

MAY 2, 2012

It’s been a wild and wonderful year—without question, my most challenging and stimulating yet. We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. Conflating financial trends with financial position.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

In particular, we want exhibition collaborators--artists, researchers, historians, collectors--to understand our goals and how we intend to steer the exhibition development process. We knew internally that we wanted our exhibitions to become more interdisciplinary, more participatory, and more responsive to audience needs.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

.” Many consumers may find it difficult to find the useful and accessible information — and when you consider that there are 30 billion health related google searches a year, it can be a challenge not to get overwhelmed or go down the wrong path. This “Dr. Mobile health apps have grown in popularity.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

In this full-time role, you will be responsible for interactive exhibition development, project management of all our site-specific work, and you will lead the redevelopment of our permanent History Gallery into a more dynamic, participatory, and flexible space. Will it give a sense of energy and change?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Museums can be incredible catalysts for social change. We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today. Thanks to everyone who I met in the past weeks who has inspired and challenged me based on this talk.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

This year was a year of building, challenging, and strengthening. We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. We''re working on a theory of change. In the meantime, here are some.

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Museum 2.0

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? While it's true that art museums have some particular challenges, so do all kinds of institutions in their own ways.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. When the music video was not focused on Mexican culture, no such change occurred. I wanted to know more. So I called one of the researchers, Tiffany Brannon.

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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 first technique I used to get at individual understanding of the design challenge. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3. New Technology for New Power Movements. Concept 3: Foster Sharing & Innovation.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

People curious to learn more about these trends packed a room at the National Press Club in Washington on September 16 to discuss the challenges and successes of content syndication. Our latest Web Executive Seminar, “ Web Sites without Walls ,” featured four speakers who are helping change the landscape for content sharing.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Examine major gift planning in the context of current economic conditions, changes in donor populations and increased competition for the charitable dollar. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Agents of Change Summit. Agents of Change Summit.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. Writing a vision can empower you, clarify your thinking, and help you change the world. It's a story of what happened after you launched that program, gave that speech, conquered that challenge. So here are a few notes on how to write a vision.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). Some of these challenges were about mission fit.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. Giant collaborative tweetups show we like to work together. But every time a museum social account responded to another museum we saw this form of collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

How do you find out what's important to different communities, and how do you change your plans based on their needs? Each small group spent fifteen minutes brainstorming the needs for that community, and then another fifteen discussing potential projects and collaborators that could help meet those needs.

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