Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

The project is commissioned and supported by NESTA , an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. Project objectives: • To develop a transferable model for amplifying a diverse city’s grassroots innovation capacity through connecting diverse communities through key individuals. • That you know your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

This year, 2012, will have a focus on designing and delivering capacity building projects with NGOs outside the US. I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE. I now look forward to further refining curriculum and workshops over the coming months.

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Learning Pakistan Haiti Facilitation 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

” I create a few pages in the beginning to write about my themes, what makes me happy, what to improve, and major projects for the year. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. 3) Start A New Journal: I use a large Moleskine (8 x 11.5)

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

posted by Shayla Hubbard Project Coordinator, University of Arizona College of Medicine. He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.”

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever. This project wove together many different participatory threads. This project wove together many different participatory threads. We commissioned new collaborative artwork. Short story: we learned a lot.

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Issue Childhood Community Create 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

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. Kids frequently suffer from tokenism.

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Design Participatory Children Museum 49

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. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. ” It is an organizational culture issue or perhaps people-centered leadership approach.

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Causes Change Museum Social 50

Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above). He is an authoritative artist of the social web with a slew of accolades and a suite of diverse projects under his belt.

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Museum Participatory Artist History 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. One area we cover is social awareness, the ability to recognize and understand the moods of other individuals and teams that we collaborate with professionally. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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, The Second C: Collaboration. Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

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. I remember her community of clocks project -- she facilitated content creation from schools around the world on the theme of clocks.

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Flickr Professional Participatory New York 50

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process."

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Participatory Arts Design Museum 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. The Festival is one moment in a decade-long project to redesign Market Street. The projects were messy, unfinished--true prototypes of future possibilities. A fitness trail for urban life. A soundtrack for the street.

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San Francisco Arts Design Marketing 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Bridged groups are useful if you want people to collaborate on a more inclusive vision of the future. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Movement, making, and imaginative projects are all good for shaking new ideas loose. AFTER THE MEETING 9.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

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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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The total buying power of this community is projected to be more than $790 billion and the surveys indicate that the LGBT community is especially likely to consider supporting charitable organizations for which they are committed with a planned gift. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Washington, DC / Not available.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Hiring people.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

But that business model requires experienced staff who know how to empower people, facilitate meaningful participation, respond to community issues and interests, and ignite learning. 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.

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Journal Participatory Museum Community 54

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I was the project manager/curator for the exhibition, leading both the Second Life-based community exhibit design process and the real world translation of virtual exhibits. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration. Level the playing field or tip it in their favor.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans. Where are we not putting our energy?

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Friday, I leave for Beirut for co-lead a series of Train the Trainers workshops as part of the E-Mediat Project , a capacity building project for NGOs to learn social media skills. The Story of Electronics is part of a series of short films created and released by the Story of Stuff project since 2007. It is about sharing.

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Story Network Action Examples 99

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. The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators.

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Museum Arts Problem Design 45

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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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

of other projects. According to Shirky, the three elements for success for a open, participatory projects online are: 1. “In the domain of collaborative production, it is Heisenberg’s press release: the more completely in advance you take credit for future success, the less likely that success becomes.&#. .

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Local Community Government Collaboration 150

Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Carefully vetting each project and partner is the due diligence required to make good decisions. Grantees painstakingly provide long histories of past performance, financial projections, and thorough descriptions of expected results. On the surface this feels reasonable, but in practice significant issues and challenges emerge.

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Change Proposal Grant Application 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

The Greenpeace Mobilization Lab has a project proposal idea for a “ Mobilization Journal ” as part of the Knight News Challenge. ” This blog shares some thoughts about this project and I have to give it a big round of applause. It’s open for comments and feedback right now – or “applause.”

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Journal Change Learning Technology 101

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

Pop Up” has become an international buzz term to describe ephemeral, experimental projects--from pop up restaurants to pop up boutiques--but a “Pop Up Museum” is still somewhat mystifying. We choose themes and venues in collaboration with a community partner. What does this look like?

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Museum Grant Lesson History 49

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. We need to set up spaces in which doing the right thing--welcoming all kinds of people--is easy, facilitated and enforced.

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