AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

One way to bring people together over a common theme is to host a virtual tasting party. Virtual Cooking Class. Why not take that learning all the way into the new year with a virtual New Year’s Eve cooking class? Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. In some instances, you might need a longer amount of time to do this exercise, but the way this was facilitated with 50 people was highly productive and efficient. There are usually two aspects of this.

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Facilitation Technique Ideas Exercise 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Not only did I design and deliver workshops and master classes for capacity building organizations for a range of nonprofits, but I also expanded my practice to internal workshops for nonprofits and foundations on a variety of topics, including workshops on creating the ideal work culture.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The first of these reasons is practical.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

We had an incredible team of women tech advisers from Silicon Valley, all experts, and who taught classes on how to use various tools such as Google, Canva, and Indiegogo, complete with detailed work books with exercises. We allowed people to move from group to group once they go their questions answered.

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Facilitation Training Train International 50

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. If all museums get better, we have more people who like going to museums, which increases museum revenues, and makes the field more stable. People go to school because they have to or want to in order to get to their goal.

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Museum Participatory Interaction Classroom 35

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Within Media Cause’s Creative, Brand, and Design team, one of our favorite things to do— besides creating incredible work for our clients—is sharing inspirational and educational resources with each other: articles, POVs, webinars, classes, books, case studies, blogs, tutorials, cheese. Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.).

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Design Experiment Nonprofit Collaboration 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. Conference sessions on reaching young people. Access programs aimed at low-income people. The impact was dramatic.

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Audience Washington Museum Intergenerational 49

Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

Our job is to get those people, those lives, those schools and communities to want to tell our stories. And if 1/100 th or 1/1000 th of those people who like it go donate just imagine the impact. People love to talk about themselves! This blog talks about participatory fundraising ideas and the effect of healthy competition.

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Arts Story Org Personal 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. When I described this, a few people had a look of horror or maybe stress come across their faces.

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Social Media San Antonio Content Strategy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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India Strategy Skype Remix 99

Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

Fifteen people engage in the prescribed activities. Approximately 100 people walk by while the program is going on. How many people participated? We held a free yoga class in the plaza outside the museum and invited artists to come and draw/paint the yoga-doers in motion. People looked and talked and pointed.

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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. People talk. People talk. I take the same bus every day and recognize many of the people on it. One guy sings.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

Any place with people working different schedules in different parts of the building suffers from it. We thought for a minute about more complicated backchannel options but realized that what we really wanted was an easy-to-use, opt-in space where people could share what''s going on with their work. This problem is nothing new.

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Facebook Museum Participatory Adopt 55

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Consider whether you want a bonded group (people who are like each other) or a bridged group (people who are different from each other). Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. If you are building something new and want people's ideas, go for bridging.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

A small room, packed with gadgets, packed with fossils, packed with tools, packed with PEOPLE everywhere making and exploring and building and learning. The people were of all ages--moms with babies strapped to their fronts, six year-olds using skillsaws, pre-teens building robots, teenagers doing homework. I was awestruck.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post. I said museums were too self-centered and needed to create community spaces with the growing army of people choosing cultural experiences outside of traditional arts institutions.

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Arts Museum Artist Tucson 45

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

She published a book in 2010 titled "The Participatory Museum" that outlined the ideas of her blog -- and many of the world's big-city museums brought her in to help them figure out how to shake off the fusty image of museums and embrace modern times and modern audiences. Lots of people now don't even know where the museum is.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Do you talk to people sitting next to you on planes? They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. I'm like an airborne clam, hoarding my book, my space, my ears.

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that features social objects , that is, exhibits or artifacts that inspire interpersonal dialogue. There are three reasons you might value this activity: It will be fun and kind of unusual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Now that Clay??? way to the future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Step 1: Find People. Hiring people. Openness - ????A

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

But for some institutions or projects, being under a big tent that includes millions of people, groups, and activities is not appropriate. Providing a private place for classes, members, visitors, and staff to network can become a "value added" of supporting or being involved with the museum. Some reasons include. exclusivity.

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Museum Social Network Case Study Discussion 20

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Learn how to make your campaigns – and your career – more successful than ever and do it in a world-class venue. frank is the foremost gathering of people who use strategic communications to drive social change. One week, thousands of people and ideas. Result: you learn more and connect with more people. Marketing.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

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. What a wonderful resource for classes." --A University of Pittsburgh professor "People who did the responses are older than I expected." --A college student "I really like the post-its.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So it’s for the people, by the people, is kind of the mantra here. . So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. How do we do it in a way that feels inclusive, that people are heard, and that we can make decisions and not be overwhelmed by the process? How do we do this well?

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Community Video Slides Survey 77

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. If we want to transform museums into place for everyday use that people drop in on for a quick fix of history, a meeting with a friend, or a cup of coffee, what will that require?

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Arts Museum Music Calendar 50

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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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Because they were a part of the experience rather than the focal point, they could impart an air of friendliness and participation without making people feel that they had to participate. Then, they offered different shapes and colors of post-its, as well as pens and markers, for people to write responses. Not so for the post-its.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

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Participatory Design Museum Wiki 26

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory? From the Ancient Greeks through the 1800s, audiences were rowdy, engaged people.

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Greece Arts Industry Participatory 51

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

We tried to find ways to make nano science interesting to the public, but it was mostly shiny futuristic potential that seemed to leave people cold. Even more amazingly, people turn out to be very susceptible to manipulation and frequently confess to crimes they did not commit. No website can deliver that kind of sustained attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. I surprised that people laughed at the some of the same jokes that they do in the US. I don’t teach that way. The image I used is one of a Russian fort.

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Kenya Network NGO Nonprofit 96

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Last week, NAS brought 25 people (including me) to Washington to discuss what issues might be appropriate to cover in the report, which is at least 3 years from hitting the press (assuming it receives funding). Some leaders are more conservative than I feared, and these people are alternately smug and desperate about maintaining their power.

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