Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

This morning I had the great pleasure and honor to present at Amplified Leicester about Community-Driven Social Impact, and run a short strategy-building workshop. To provide practical examples of how collaborative technologies can be exploited in a city context. Community-Driven Social Impact for Amplified Leicester.

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Impact Community Social Phoenix 123

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. Existing research identifies gaps in the ways in which community engagement is measured. Nonprofit organizations can benefit from this working model as it can be a useful tool in achieving a participatory culture.

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 98

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. Each month we work with 50-100 individuals to co-produce our community programs. Every time we collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organization and communication.

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Collaboration Community Tools Museum 55

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. You can download and read the full version of my thesis here.

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Museum Program Participatory Community 49

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Part of our approach to community involvement in planning Spun had to do with necessity; we needed help to pull this off.

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Denver Museum Arts Collaboration 35

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 4, 2012

Topic : Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate with Your Community. In this workshop, we’ll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. Date : April 4, 2012. Location : San Francisco, CA. Related Links : 2012 NTC. Session information.

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San Francisco Conference Technology Participatory 105

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory. We had some money.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words. Here are my three top takeaways.

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Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

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. If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. Build community.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Topic : Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate with Your Community. In this workshop, we’ll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. Date : September 30-October 2, 2012. Location : Washington, DC. Related Links : BBCon website.

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Blackbaud Convio Conference Participatory 105

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. This project wove together many different participatory threads. We co-created it from start to finish with community partners. Short story: we learned a lot.

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Issue Childhood Community Create 45

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. How can people--staff, volunteers, community members--help make this project better? But even developing that open call was a participatory process: Wes worked with other staff to think through how the residencies could work.

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Participatory Question Work Artist 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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Participatory Practice Fundraising Relationship 39

Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. Collaborative technology is incredible. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. So I started using collaborative Google documents.

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Virtual Track Student Virtual Classroom 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." 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."

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. .”

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Global Network Change Create 91

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. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience.

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Detroit Instruction Instructional PPT 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

Her report touched on the need for sector collaboration, celebrating mistakes and failures, and innovation. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. There was also awards ceremony co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Philanthropy Cambodia Impact Learning 75

Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Community is key: working with, not for. The article highlighted the importance of getting to know the client’s impacted community before creating the brand identity. As we think about creative work, we should also consider how we can move from the idea of “creating for” to “creating with” communities.

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Design Experiment Nonprofit Collaboration 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Rick wanted a better way to describe what kinds of projects led to different community outcomes.

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Model Activities Active Activism 98

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. As always, I learned a lot from Ze Frank's unique approach to community participation.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

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?

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum invites community members to participate in the development and creation of an exhibit. But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." The exhibit opens.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 14, 2021

In a survey of the charitable community through the Independent Sector (PDF), nonprofit professionals admitted that they need more engagement with their stakeholders. However, in " Programs Aren’t Everything ," investing in beneficiaries increases their sense of self, take ownership of their needs, and become collaborators to the solution.

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Program New York City Strategy Case Study 52

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

A few weeks ago, the MAH Director of Community Programs, Stacey Garcia, came to me with an idea. Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. It's certainly been a hit with MOMA's " I went to MOMA and. you tell me.

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Activities Active Activism Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

And you've decided that you want to integrate community feedback into the development process. Here are ten things I've learned about making these kinds of community input meetings successful. Bringing these different communities together in the same space might not have created safe space for the true issues of each group to emerge.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Do you dream of a summer filled with learning, community engagement, and sea lions? We''re offering internships this summer in: Participatory Exhibition Design. Help take the participatory elements of this permanent gallery to the finish line. Community Engagement. Community Programs. Video/Photo. Youth Programs.

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Participatory Community Museum History 20

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. Because of the blog and the speaking I do, I felt I had the ability on my own to get the word out within the museum community about the book. Why Self-Publish?

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Participatory Museum Process Adobe 33

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Community Organizing. Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development.

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Facilitation Technique Chart Method 121

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

For years, I've been fascinated and a bit perplexed by the Elsewhere Collaborative , a thrift store turned artists' studio/living museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. In 2003, my collaborator Stephanie and I began an excavation, declaring nothing for sale. George will respond to comments on this post and is also reachable here.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. And the conference itself resonated with joy, participation, and community.

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Museum America South America Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

How do you develop programs that are responsive to your community in a meaningful way? How do you find out what's important to different communities, and how do you change your plans based on their needs? So we've started a new committee called C3--the Creative Community Committee. Six goals for MAH community programs.

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Program Community Design Museum 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0,

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" I'm incredibly proud of all the staff, trustees, volunteers, collaborators, visitors, and members who have made this happen.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

The process was a collaboration in itself, with TSNE MissionWorks , and Essential Partners serving as co-hosts. Studying (and implementing) community-based participatory research methods. __. An advisory group and planning group gave crucial input about the strategy and tactics for this event.

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Evaluation Grant Data Boston 52