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 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The design challenge was: How do we come up with concrete tools, frameworks and methods for helping people better understand and adopt network systems leadership? The questions: What do you hope to learn today?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

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 always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques.

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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. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. So I engaged them in a discussion about term “walking meetings,” and how to change the name as well as make accommodations.

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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. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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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.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to help support the NTEN Community Challenge , which helped to enhance NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

However, the real challenge is creating community across platforms. We’ll address emerging best practices and discuss the associated opportunities and challenges of community-driven strategies. This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist?

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Proposal Louisiana Map NTEN 134

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture.

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It was held in Newcastle in the north of England, and about 70 folks from around the world (but mostly Europe) came to play, learn, make stuff, and help each other work out challenges inherent in trying to make risky ideas happen. Facilitator bits. You did great.

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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. The facilitation was as chaotic and fragile as a spiderweb. It empowered our partners, deeply touched our visitors, and catalyzed real community change.

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Issue Childhood Community Create 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. ” He started off with the story of Chelsea Welch and Alois Bell to illustrate how civic life has changed in the last 5 years. Digital Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. I got to facilitate a deep dive with a dozen folks and here are the takeaways from the discussion. The Digital Operations Center is one response to this scaling challenge. Long Live Strategy.”

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. 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. Low barrier to entry.

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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. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. " Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership.

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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. The driver provides live facilitation. I've written before about the power of live facilitators. People talk. One guy sings.

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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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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. And so you are not just asked to change the world, but also your organizations. Going back to the climate change bill. Dynamic movements such as the Iraqi election.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

There is a lot of text on the site (this should be changing soon ), but this snippet says it best: Net?? is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. community will look like, or how it will change the face of the non-profit web.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

The Great Good Place is a book that challenged many of my preconceptions about third places—what defines them, what makes them work, and how they function. Third places facilitate engagement among patrons, whereas museums and libraries deliver services to patrons. The cultural service model is antithetical to the third place.

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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. I tried to address the Smithsonian's particular challenges and opportunities while contextualizing it with lots of examples across different museum sizes and types. I am an impatient person.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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? Facilitators have many superpowers, and like superheroes, many of those powers may be invisible to others.

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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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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

The challenge is initiating them. This creates a dependency where visitors only experience the communal relationship if it is facilitated by staff. And these relationships--among people are more natural to sustain than relationships with institutions or staff members.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

My firm guides leaders and organizations in strategic plans and governance processes that deepens social change, racial justice, stakeholder engagement and community strength. So the challenge that I hear from a lot of clients or potential clients or nonprofit leaders is we don’t have a strategic plan. Are you nodding along?

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 120

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

A person is randomly designated as the facilitator for a 15 minute discussion on each of the topics in the envelope. Not only does the activity support local artists, it challenges how outsiders and insiders engage with each other and share knowledge in a conference setting.

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. It's the execution of them as good exhibits that's the challenge." Trust is essential, especially in a changing environment.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

I’d posted on twitter a while ago about how one of my challenges with ICOM’s definition is that I wasn’t sure how visitor-centered it was. I might change that position slightly. Many people shared how this act of defining seems silly given the real work places challenges. I wonder how people-centered it was.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Many wrote personally about their reasons for making the work, sharing challenges along the way and evocative stories about their meaning. How does my experience of a piece change based on its context? One of the things I found most delightful and surprising about Artprize was the huge variety of artists' statements about their work.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

2020 will be remembered as the year that changed grantmaking. On the surface this feels reasonable, but in practice significant issues and challenges emerge. The situation is equally challenging on the funder’s side. Foundations are in the midst of a sudden and unexpected upheaval of long-held grantmaking practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

The Greenpeace Mobilization Lab has a project proposal idea for a “ Mobilization Journal ” as part of the Knight News Challenge. We also embrace a decentralized, networked approach, allowing Greenpeace and its allies and supporters to be nimble, agile and react quickly to a constantly changing landscape.

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