Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

Today is my one-year anniversary as the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. 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. 85% of our visitors attend through events.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary. I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Making co-creation sustainable and powerful.

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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. Every time we collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organization and communication. We realize collaboration differs greatly for each individual and organization.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

This blog was co-written by Associate Director, Ida Perrson, and SVP of Brand + Strategy, Amy Small. The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. How many times have you seen an ad for a humanitarian aid nonprofit showing a malnourished child suffering?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer. There were times when coordinating a fire art festival while researching social capital theory made me want to burn my computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

We are living in a time of noisy revolution on the streets, from Tahrir Square to Zuccotti Park. The creative process of making films is opening up and the outreach efforts to spark social change through documentary media are becoming much more dynamic and collaborative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. Insight #1: Build Time for Getting To Know Each Other At The Beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. Several participants reflected on how it is easy to fall into that trap and looked at beginning to schedule more time with people to build relationships that give them inspiration and energy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

Executive Director Nina Simon, who was hired in 2011, says that in the years following the global financial crisis, the facility was struggling. “At At the time, we thought it was financial trouble, but it turned out it was much deeper than that,” Simon says. I see race as the most important audience diversity issue of our time.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

These are unpaid part-time and full-time opportunities to help design public programs, develop new uses for the museum, perform visitor research, and pursue unusual projects. Stacey Garcia, our Director of Community Programs (who began as a graduate student intern) is the queen of working with interns to produce truly inspired events.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Billy was formerly director of partnerships at Meetup.com and had shown the power of it during the 2004 presidential campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

government and encouraging participatory democracy. Through a partnership with game studio E-Line Media and the nonprofit Cook Inlet Tribal Council, it became the first game developed in collaboration with the Iñupiat community. ” Senate Immersion Module. Kennedy (EMK) Institute to support it in educating the public about U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The panel was moderated by Joel Beetsch, Vice President, Patient Advocacy, Celgene and Cara Thompson , Director of Patient Advocacy was the host for the event. Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” President, Global Hematology and Oncology, Celgene. This “Dr.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What if a funder got real-time input from its grantees and other partners to develop its investment strategy? In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. I tried to picture a time when we were okay with only having a sliver of American society walking in our doors. Giant collaborative tweetups show we like to work together.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

That's what I found myself wondering again and again in the too-short hour I spent with the director of Temple Contemporary, Rob Blackson. It is unfinished, unassuming, and whimsical, and at the same time, deadly serious. Leave the process to the collaborators and give the product to the audience.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I had just started at the MAH as the new executive director. I had lots of creative formats for drawing people out, sharing stories, and working collaboratively. At work and at conferences, we're often "saved by the bell" of the clock telling us the time is up. I remember the first staff meeting I ever ran.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

At frank, we divide our time among great talks by strategists, storytellers and scientists and casual opportunities to connect with other sophisticated communicators over coffee or cocktails. Whether you have a staff of one or 100, you will find benefit in taking time away to attend. Feb 23 - 26. frank / Gainesville, FL / Invite only.

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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. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: YOU” reminds me of when Time named “you” the person of the year. This is the cocktail party, the hallway conversation, a structured time to meet and talk. I spoke with Jane Weiner, the director/choreographer of Hope Stone , the dance company creating the piece. My first reaction was skepticism.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I''m appreciative of the time Ellen Gamerman spent researching the article. There are many curator and museum director voices in the article, but not a single quote from a visitor who engaged in one of these community projects. What is the metaphor for participatory arts? Projects participatory museum' It''s not easy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. At the same time, “identity” doesn't always mean demographics. Our visitors are about 8% Latino.

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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. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. Are you asking your collaborators to solve your problems or to help tease them out in new ways?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. If good ideas are easy to come by, why not let other people contribute them and focus our time on the hard work of execution?

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A. Steven: I’ve heard that you know, every time I talk to someone in the Bay Area it’s always foggy. But I don’t know how you make time for webinars, Renee, because you’re doing all these other things. We don’t have the time about 16%.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2013

Any job with the word “coordinator” in it sounds like you might spend your time sorting socks into pairs. This job involves administrative management of all things school tours as well as collaboration with a diverse group of volunteer docents and education interns. I know, I know.

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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. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators. Would it work without full-time staff support?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

I am the director of a non-profit that promotes open museum practices, and we are in midst of launching a free service for arts organizations: a web site that permits any museum to create a participatory exhibit space and social network centered on the museum's collections. It takes content, strategy and elbow grease.

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Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

In addition to representing Candid, I was there to learn about trends in the European philanthropic sector and explore opportunities for collaboration. The conversation also focused on vaccination, the global collaborative process, and philanthropy’s response. New funding models: spotlight on participatory grantmaking.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? So when do wikis work?

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival. But participatory cultures on the Internet take on a new quality, a new scale, and new capabilities.”. Click here to read Kayla McKinney's post, "Time to give a little.".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

" But even more impressive was Lucy Hooberman's pledge: "I will mentor a minimum of two people in the developing world in the area of my skills base and expertise (media, communications, broadcasting , democratic media building, participatory media, community video). So, if you're Omidyar Network member, check it out.)

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I've written before about the difference between participatory processes and products , but this question of frameworks and sensibility is more broadly applicable to community engagement strategies. And other times, when I'm focused on opening up access and opportunities for audience members to partner with staff, I'm talking about framework.

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