Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. It is a truly collaborative effort, and rather than us being design or marketing experts coming to “help” everyone, we become co-collaborators of developing solutions together. . What would the structure be like?

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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. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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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.

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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. Muchas gracias to the organizers: Fundacion TyPA , AAM , and Parque Explora.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. Each month I create the task list organized with different color codes for different types of work/life.

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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. Community members, artists, and organizations increasingly see our museum as a place where they can advance their own goals, and so they approach us.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We've gotten a little more organized at The Museum of Art & History , and we've now released opportunities for summer internships. This internship is for the truly self-motivated person out there with a brilliant idea for making museums more participatory, welcoming, community spaces who just lacks an institution at which to try it out.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? Taking in New Ideas: Facilitated Listening. Then we opened up for discussion.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

We're seeking great folks for public programs, participatory exhibit design, online marketing, 3D design, and whatever else you might have to offer. And that's what this post is about--how we advertise the culture at our organizations (or not) when we offer new positions. We might never get there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

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. Organizational Awareness: the ability to understand the politics within an organization and how these affect the people working in them. Ask Good Questions.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. I know our organization will keep thriving because we keep expanding who can bring leadership to the table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The audience consisted of patient and professional patient advocacy organizations that were attending the ASCO meeting. Patient advocates play a critical role in setting research priorities, designing clinical trials and structuring appropriate clinical engagement with industry. This “Dr.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Bridged groups are useful if you want people to collaborate on a more inclusive vision of the future. This could be financial; some organizations pay people to participate in community meetings. Create a structure that values peoples' participation. If you are building something new and want people's ideas, go for bridging.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Jane McGonigal and the folks from IFTF have released a new future-casting game/collaborative experience called Signtific Lab. In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. Here's how Signtific works (their rules here ): The organizing institution presents a three-minute video exploring a "what if?"

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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.”. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Making: Ideation and Rapid Prototyping.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

2016 Nonprofit Organizations Institute. 2016 Nonprofit Organizations Institute. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

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. We partnered with the Film Center to conduct workshops with community organizations around personal object storytelling. How and why did Object Stories come to be?

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration / Cancún Yucatán, (Int.) WHAT IF Conference. WHAT IF Conference. Oct 9 - 14.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. Many organizations are keeping tabs of what is being said about their organization or programs on blogs and responding directly, telling their side of the story.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking?

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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 think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Today more than ever, individuals are connected to causes more than organizations. People want to spread ideas much more than they care about being card-carrying member of your organization. Your organization is just one channel through which they seek to drive change. Radical Collaboration. Rise of Peer Influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

My colleague, Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans have just published an important piece over on the Harvard Business School blog called “ Understanding the New Power ” that gives us a great high level analysis of how collaborative economy is operating in the social good sector. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s Maybe it is more like moment capture.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

We choose themes and venues in collaboration with a community partner. We have created a free and downloadable pop up museum organizer’s kit. Check it out if you’re curious about choosing a strong theme, working with a collaborator, designing a portable structure, or tips for implementation. What does this look like?

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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.” What do you think?

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