Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. Naming fears, too.

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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.”. It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet. These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. How much has our environment, culture, or information overload changed?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

We''re an institution that focuses intentionally on being transparent and collaborative with our community members. Connectedness builds staff culture. The Facebook group has allowed us to cheerlead for each other, make jokes, and banter in ways that don''t always happen in an intense work environment.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Ever wish for a low-cost, energizing professional development experience where you can work intensely with diverse colleagues in a risk-tolerant environment? We're working with participatory online artist Ze Frank on an exhibition at the MAH this winter that features the missions, creations, and explorations of his current web series, A Show.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. All of these have gone through a series of movements in the last 30 years reflecting cultural shifts and expectations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

On Spot.us, we're trying to bring in a culture of transparency in journalism, where we say, "Invite the public into the reporting from day one. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. They have a magazine called Race, Poverty and Environment Magazin e.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. We focus on people who are culturally curious, actively creative… but may not see a traditional arts institution as a place for them.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

In the other case, the institution was unwilling to engage in the conversational environment and ended up isolated, fueling the fire. This afternoon, they issued a lengthy collaborative statement. This is why I always say that participatory tools are about relationships, not technology. Let’s start there. They met in person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Step 8: Understand The Power Remix Culture and User-Generated Content. Remix culture is a term used by the Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig to describe a society which allows and encourages derivative works. Create collaborative, student-authored resources.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Who are we in the context of our community and the environment? But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning. Some questions to consider, how much have we shifted our program due to changes in the external environment? Who are we? Where are we not putting our energy?

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

5 Macon Money Macon Money is an innovative project that aimed to unite social, racial, cultural, gender, and economic gaps - all while boosting the local economy! 1 Evoke Played over 10 weeks, Evoke had participants all over the world solving problems with "super powers" like collaboration, courage and resourcefulness. Everyone wins!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It is a collaborative way of working. When you have a group of people working together in a network-culture and are facile with the tools, it can be unstoppable. Annie talked about how networks focus on collaboration and action, rather than institution building. 2) Networks are participatory. It is about sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.”

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Does community participation work for big cultural destinations too? My museum can pursue radical collaboration because of our small size and local focus. The same is true for cultural participation.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

The ideal of third places, that attracts we cultural heritage types, is a democratic space where civic life is built collaboratively and at a personal level. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience. That’s our main difference with Oldenburg.

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