Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. Our ability to collaborate effectively in the cloud and create meaningful media together is quickly evolving as more nonprofits expand their borders.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

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." Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge.

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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. We commissioned new collaborative artwork. The lessons I learned from Lost Childhoods are at the heart of the OF/BY/FOR ALL project we're building now.

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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. The E-Mediat Implementation Partners at SF Planning Meeting.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Museum programs need to then actively respond to their communities through a variety of ongoing discursive, collaborative and inclusive formats that address needs and assets but also invite communities to be active participants in this process.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection.

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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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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. Before the workshops, they facilitated a brainstorming and collaborative voting process to identify topics and teams. Teams worked on their zines until the end of the camp.

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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

JANUARY 11, 2012

I'm incredibly proud of all the staff, trustees, volunteers, collaborators, visitors, and members who have made this happen. Our team focused this year on just three things: making the museum more comfortable, hosting new participatory events, and partnering wherever possible. Community response.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Join our team. We're looking for an Exhibitions Manager to join our team here at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. This is a highly collaborative role, and we are looking for the perfect blend of strong design skills with a generous enthusiasm for amateur and professional co-creation. Come to Camp.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Ken is a game designer and writer who develops narrative, collaborative augmented reality experiences about serious issues. An official-looking decal for the “GISKIN ANOMALY SURVEY PROJECT” appeared on a window in the park. GISKIN ANOMALY is a “historical fiction” game I created for Rich Cherry and the Balboa Park Online Collaborative.

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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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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

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. I credit everyone on our team for adapting and leading with extraordinary enthusiasm and optimism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

For more on these projects and to meet the people behind them, check out the upcoming Games for Change Festival (April 21-23 & 25), NYC’s largest gaming event and the leading international event for games with impact, bringing together the social change community and game makers. government and encouraging participatory democracy.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

In July of 2013, the MAH will host our first You Can't Do That in Museums Camp (or better name to be suggested by you), inviting 80 creative people to collaborate on an experimental exhibition. The Arts Dinner-vention Project - date TBD. Read more about the project and how to participate here. This camp will be a 2.5

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. Pouring through these materials, I was struck by several key elements of this project that made it work. They decided to ask children, and the project was born. it's a Secret! , What made Shh. it's a Secret!

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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.”. Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project. This helped each team look at the ideas in terms of the cost and impact and prioritize what they thought were some of the best ideas. Making: Ideation and Rapid Prototyping.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. We talk a lot at our museum about empowering our visitors, collaborators, interns, and staff by making space for them to shine. Building an amazing team.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

Sarah and some of her colleagues in visitor services feel disconnected from the work that happens "upstairs" in the office and in our creative project development. We''re an institution that focuses intentionally on being transparent and collaborative with our community members. participatory museum professional development'

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (which she directs) teamed up with the San Francisco Planning Department and the Knight Foundation to host the Market Street Prototyping Festival. Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. A fitness trail for urban life.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

You can write a vision for yourself, your organization, your project, or your team. It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. The prompt was to write a detailed story about a day in spring 2018 when we are working even better as a team (whatever that means to you).

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Stronger youth leagues led to stronger college teams led to stronger Olympic and professional performance. When we talk about embracing participatory experiences at non-professional levels, arts professionals often get worried that the best work will get drowned out in mediocrity. inclusion Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. I started in the Cornell University Center for Theatre Arts , where I founded and directed two programs: Cornell Theatre Outreach and the Community-Based Arts Project.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. 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.

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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

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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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

But the eyes were just the beginning of a major theatrical and experimental project called Ghosts of a Chance. The point is that the City Mystery team is trying to give non-gamers a gentle introduction into the wild world of ARGs. But comments on the gamers' forum like: An internet collaborative [sic] art display in a national museum?

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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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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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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. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution.

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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? over email.

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