Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

I''ve seen participatory artworks that lay untouched by visitors because the invitation to participate is not explicit enough. Throw in a few participatory elements, and suddenly you have visitors trying to arbitrate amongst themselves. institutional change Museum of Art and History risk'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project. He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve.

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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

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 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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

We're looking for an Exhibitions Manager to join our team here at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We're toying here with switching from a format where we change all of our exhibitions four times per year to something more flexible throughout the building. Will it give a sense of energy and change?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. There was no specific instruction with the dots.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. It’s been a wild and wonderful year—without question, my most challenging and stimulating yet. We had to reverse the trend, and I made drastic, immediate cuts and changes to cut expenses. Everyone made sacrifices.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Here's the short version (read the whole thing here ): The Museum of Art & History is committed to creating exhibitions that inspire our diverse audiences to engage deeply with contemporary art and Santa Cruz County history. We challenged our partners, they challenged us, and we all learned a lot from the experience.

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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

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. It empowered our partners, deeply touched our visitors, and catalyzed real community change. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process.

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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

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. This year was a year of building, challenging, and strengthening. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. We''re working on a theory of change. I arrived in 2011 with the explicit directive to execute a turnaround.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Things must change. Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” We are not enough on our own. What should be our role(s)?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

When the music video was not focused on Mexican culture, no such change occurred. Our theory of change posits that when we develop projects that bridge “unexpected connections” between diverse people and ideas, people build understanding and social capital with community members from different cultures, generations, and backgrounds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Guidestar has a history of doing walking meetings, especially one on ones and at its Williamsburg location. 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.

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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. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2011

It was Friday, a few hours before the drawing activity, and my colleagues were worried that it would be too challenging for people to draw the icons and landmarks selected. Visitors rose to the challenge and made some incredible drawings. The problem? It turned into a pretty wild evening in the classroom, filled with, "Whoa!

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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. History and science museums.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A cheerful curly-haired deli owner stands in front of 30 of us and shares a quote he loves: "Artists live in the present and write detailed histories of the future." 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.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2013

He''ll be able to watch how certain activities evolve into coordination and what kinds of histories the people who most easily coordinate have in common. There''s something magical about the cognitive surplus most of us have at this point in time and then applying that to the challenge of doing something for 30 days.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. 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.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

In partnership with women’s rights funds, sport for development organizations and feminist sport activists, Women Win launched the ONSIDE Fund — a participatory grantmaking mechanism that rapidly mobilises unrestricted resources for girls and young women-led organisations and groups through a pooled fund.

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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." It requires trading a certain history for an uncertain future--a nerve-wracking prospect no matter the situation. And that change might alienate some traditional audiences.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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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? At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development. Six goals for MAH community programs. Then, we went honeycomb-crazy.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

It requires the ability to change our internal culture. That is proving to be the real challenge. Robert Newman: On the History of Oil (Robert if you are listening - I want to adopt ten babies to help run our idyllic post apocalyptic farmstead. Here's one of her experiments ) Tell me more about your blog?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! how do you set clear criteria for participation when the project is experimental and ever-changing?

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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? I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. It takes six steps.

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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. Thank you to everyone who came and helped co-create an exciting experimental event in a beautiful city.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

"The words we use in attempting to change museum directions matter. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. It has been challenged for our community-centered approach. I''ve always understood that participatory experiences are not for everyone.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it. As your hands move through the records, the music changes to whatever record you are currently checking out. Projects design participatory museum. It is an incredible museum experience. Magical, simple, surprising.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Two years later, things have changed for the blog--and more importantly, for the museum field. at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. There is funding.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Convene with thought leaders in social change from around the world.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The exhibition uses the stories of three remarkable children in history as a launching point for a platform on which kids and families can make “promises” for how they will impact or change the world. His experiment dwells little on the crux of social networks--their management--and the challenges and opportunities therein.

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