sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking? Whether organizations start with a single grant program or incorporate a participatory approach across all their funding, there are a variety of ways to practice participatory grantmaking. And several ways not to do it.

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept.

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

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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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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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

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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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

This year was a year of building, challenging, and strengthening. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale. Naming our goals and our culture. We wrote engagement goals. In the meantime, here are some.

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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 might we reimagine our goals so they aren’t trapped by old power values and/or culture? New Technology for New Power Movements.

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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. While the talk may encompass serious topics, the attitude is light and the conversation is not structured or overly guided. Regulars may drop in multiple times a day.

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

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." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

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. First, we realized that our museum is different from other museums, but our benefits and membership structure were the same as others. What were the biggest challenges?

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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

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. The event succeeded in donating thousands of images to Wikipedia, but it was plagued by challenges that frustrated museum staff, Wikimedians, and photographers. Some of these challenges were about mission fit.

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Wikipedia Arts Museum Images 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. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most. Facilitator bits.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

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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Action Ideas St. Louis Museum 31

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

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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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

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. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. Resource balancing.

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. All of this real-world experience is grounded in rigorous research and is taught by successful marketers who face your same challenges.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. I wish that every museum would be clear about its goals, specific about its strategies and measures, and unapologetic about pursuing them. I don't think the challenge of museums is being community-oriented.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

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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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. 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?

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Participatory Facilitation Philanthropy Skills 82

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

It's the execution of them as good exhibits that's the challenge." This is not to say that the virtual designers didn't work hard to make their ideas in-line with our museum goals--in fact, we could have given them much clearer and stricter criteria and they would have thanked us for it. Some museum pros have been puzzled by this.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” From the Arab Spring to Black Lives Matter, from the Ice Bucket Challenge to the Woman’s March, many of today’s most effective movements are less about single charismatic voices and more about the power of the chorus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. The goal with new power is not to hoard it but to channel it. In our new power world, the private behavior—and core challenges—of every organization is only a leak or a tweet away. It downloads, and it captures. New power operates differently, like a current. It is made by many.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

Our primary goal for pop up museums is to bring people together in conversation through stories, art, history, and objects. Check it out if you’re curious about choosing a strong theme, working with a collaborator, designing a portable structure, or tips for implementation. guestpost Museum of Art and History participatory museum'

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Museum Grant Lesson History 49

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

I was struck by how this is partly interactive, but within a structured, linear narrative. How did you make decisions about how to structure the story? Jim is the author and he is so brilliant and addresses the subject with such clarity and authority that we had a lot of trust in his sense of the structure of the book.

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