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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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

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." Some argue that young people acquire these key skills by interacting with popular culture. vlogging, and podcasting). .

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Too often, cultural institutions design participatory projects that require visitors to learn new tools or make sacrifices to contribute. Read the original post on this project for more info.

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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).

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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). Yes and no.

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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

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). Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The Latin American delegates in Medellin reimagined change on a level beyond what I've experienced in other places. We met in Medellin--a city where cultural institutions were instrumental in turning crime and fear into hope and beauty.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

NEWS This week, Echoing Green partnered with Jobs for Change on a new Be Bold Podcast. 29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. I closed this book wondering: are cultural institutions really interested in being third places? Facebook discussion board here.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. Things must change. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Like many organizations, I heard some of the same challenges to incorporating walking meetings: We often review digital information at our meetings so it is hard to walk. How have you changed your organization’s meeting culture to be better?

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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. How do community members make your institution better? Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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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.”. It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. You can mount challenges that are effective in spreading the word and making our message accessible to more people who can make their own decisions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

I was reminded of this "care, then act" framework when I saw a recent story about a student's experience at a powerful issue-driven exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, Half the Sky. When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act. age/gender unknown).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

This is a big change for me--professionally and personally--and I'm thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to take on this position in the city I call home. There are three reasons that I am absolutely ecstatic about this change. Dear Museum 2.0 readers, I have some exciting news. OK, now on to the interesting part.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

The workshop topics included trends in digital media consumption, social media, engagement on mobile devices and a variety of community foundation projects funded by the Knight Community Information Challenge. He gave numerous examples of how pervasive access to the Internet has changed families, the nature of work and society.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." When the music video was focused on Mexican culture, the researchers found that the white and Asian participants demonstrated a decrease in prejudice against Latinos, both immediately after the activity and six months later.

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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 work hard to name and build our culture in many ways. Institutional culture is something I never really understood before and I am now completely fascinated by how it can shape work. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive.

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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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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

While it would not be as "raw" as initially envisioned, urging as many agencies as possible to produce actual queryable APIs with the data would have made more possibilities for truly creative visualizations and allowed new participatory applications to be built. Open Standards. Demonstration Projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

And frustrating challenges like fighting off big oil’s influence on the ever delayed climate change bill otherwise known as Waxman Markey. Yet, our executives and managers, our internal stakeholders cannot understand the open culture. And so you are not just asked to change the world, but also your organizations.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. Even I, who never rode a school bus, can identify with that cultural experience. People talk. The bus driver waves as I bike up.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

What values change in that not so subtle shift between people, things, and the common space shared between them? Over time the movement and arrangement of things trails a layered aesthetic that convey histories and narratives of changing communities passing through this unfolding three-story artwork.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

Using facial morphing software to change a player''s avatar to a different ethnicity, we fed the game with hundreds of photos that were judged in a "hot or not" type interface and gave players a view of how intelligent, attractive, and trustworthy others perceived them to be as two different ethnicities. as a part of Experimonth: Race.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

The Uitmarkt is an annual festival that opens the new cultural year. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Later at the day, when most obvious ideas had been posted, these people sometimes changed to one of the 2 other groups explained below.

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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. The project's implementation keeps changing, and I can't decide whether it is getting better or just different. Some of these challenges were about mission fit. It started with a request from a group of New York Wikimedians to the Brooklyn Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

to Change The World. I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. enhanced cultural and technical literacy, not just an ability to reuse materials, but a willingness to do so.

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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? The Social Change Challenge will crowdsource innovative ideas from nonprofits to change the world. But that's only the beginning.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

How do you overcome institutional resistance to change and uncertainty to do something wild and hopeful? Third, you need to align your idea with institutional culture. This may sound obvious and natural, but it’s easy to underestimate the power of institutional culture. These transactions will make change possible.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. We focus on people who are culturally curious, actively creative… but may not see a traditional arts institution as a place for them.

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