Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Looking outside our typical field of vision for new ideas is a natural part of our process, as it is for most creative folks. Hearing how other designers approach some of the same creative challenges we face every day, and getting a peek into their thought processes, felt like a welcome dose of camaraderie. What about content?

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Unleash Crowdfunding Potential: Transform Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Game In the challenging nonprofit community, smaller organizations often struggle with securing adequate funds to execute their mission. A crucial element of a campaign’s success centers around a tangible goal and timeframe.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

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? What’s the biggest challenge related to networks and leadership? This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. At the end of every planning process, I send out a feedback survey to participants. This enables the facilitator to focus on the flow of the conversation or planning process.

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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." others toward a common goal. " He describes what Ian observed what happened with his youth audience. and discovery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with my fellow track facilitators to design the process that we will lead the participants in our track through.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation. In the first case, you are making the design process participatory.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. By giving your community an active role in your grantmaking process, you get a better understanding of their needs, build stronger relationships, and have a more direct impact. What is Participatory Grantmaking? And several ways not to do it.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

MuseumCamp is amazing, but there are two issues that come up every January when we announce the new session: The application process is very competitive, and hundreds of people end up being rejected or waitlisted. If additional spots are available, we will make an application process available in April 2018. Learn more here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start. Goal setting is often rushed. Measurement springs from many different motivations. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Museum programs need to then actively respond to their communities through a variety of ongoing discursive, collaborative and inclusive formats that address needs and assets but also invite communities to be active participants in this process.

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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

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Non-Participation 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the challenges of developing an issue system is to build participants’ identity with it; this is critical to creating effective action to realize opportunities, address needs and respond to challenges. Key is a participatory development process. A core concept in systems mapping is “purpose”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

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? Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”.

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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. Instead, we find that they do return—for more events.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. We talked to Isaac Holeman, R&D Director for FrontlineSMS:Medic for some updates from the N2Y4 Mobile Challenge first prize team: What can you look forward to soon from FrontlineSMS:Medic? The Process.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

It''s impossible to process everything I am learning from these four psychologists in just one blog post. Reducing intergroup bias isn''t a primary goal in all of our work, but in some projects, it''s of particular interest. But how will we know if we are actually achieving our goals?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. You can read a full report on the exhibition process, including lots of quotes from the young curators, staff, and educators involved, here [pdf]. The process was professional. it's a Secret! , What made Shh. it's a Secret!

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Challenges and issues. Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

We used Beck Tench's honeycomb format to present the six main goals for MAH community programs against which we'll assess new ideas (quickly--about the first ten minutes after introductions). Six goals for MAH community programs. Here are the slides so you can see what we shared. Then, we went honeycomb-crazy.

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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. We heard loud and clear that these members really want to know more about the curatorial process and how the museum operates. Seeing the installation process was a big one.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. The challenge was to figure out how to do it and end up with a high-quality book. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Check out the other parts here.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

It was like getting paid to process the day in a lovely setting. My goal was to find an incredible professional to work for in an institution that was small enough that I could actually make a contribution. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. I got hooked all over again.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Both resulting exhibitions featured visitor-submitted content, but each institution did so in a way that felt comfortable to their work processes and abilities. They use these explicit goals as measuring sticks for the projects and experiments they pursue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

" Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future. I am still in the process of convincing our board and the managers that we need to be more responsive, but this requires much more than technology. That is proving to be the real challenge. What results?

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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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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

All of this real-world experience is grounded in rigorous research and is taught by successful marketers who face your same challenges. You’ll be joined by hundreds of association CEOs, VPs, and directors who face the same challenges as you, and are ready to share their ideas. Marketing / #Sherpa16 / @MarketingSherpa. Marketing.

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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. It may instead be that something—or rather, someone—is missing from the process. New to Participatory Grantmaking?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I was the project manager/curator for the exhibition, leading both the Second Life-based community exhibit design process and the real world translation of virtual exhibits. We shrunk the exhibit design process (concept to floor) from 2 years to five months. It's the execution of them as good exhibits that's the challenge."

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The best reason to create a custom social network goes beyond all of these reasons, and is more fundamental: you should consider creating a custom network if it is the tool that will best accommodate and specific mission-related goal for your institution. Tree of Promise is not a stand-alone network. But it's also deeply annoying.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

We received some excellent nominations and the voting process was exciting to watch. Interro-Bang challenges young players with tasks that are centered on making a difference in the world. Challenges were delivered weekly to players by the World Bank and visionary game designer, Jane McGonigal.

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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. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

I’ve also been looking at ideas from the the Lean Start Up movement, ignited by Eric Ries, author of the Lean Start Up. One of the Lean Startup’s core concepts is build>measure>learn —the process that start ups follow to iterate and learn. The overall goal is to reduce waste: wasted time, wasted effort, and wasted money.

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