Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. While that was painful for the organizations involved, it also helped force the issue of whether participatory engagement could be core to a strong future business model for each organization or not. didn't mince words.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. But even developing that open call was a participatory process: Wes worked with other staff to think through how the residencies could work. This open call project may sound like one that is uniquely suited for participatory input.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work. The facilitation methods are participatory. Share in the comments below.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. It felt like she was letting us into her world in a generous, funny way--and that encouraged us to relate and share as well. But participatory facilitation can be taught. What made it so special?

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

This post was originally published on The Ross Collective ; it is being shared here with the author’s permission. I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Tags: participatory museum Quick Hits.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Too often, cultural institutions design participatory projects that require visitors to learn new tools or make sacrifices to contribute. Tags: design participatory museum. Or, so I thought.

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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. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube.

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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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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking? Whether organizations start with a single grant program or incorporate a participatory approach across all their funding, there are a variety of ways to practice participatory grantmaking. And several ways not to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Tim Fullerton from Oxfam America - who organized the campaign and will be speaking about at NTC - shared the URL of the YouTube video. Maybe he share some reflections in the comments - like for example - about the making of the video which is quite good in terms of production values, although not glossy campaign video.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station. He will respond to comments here and can also be reached on his blog (where this post first appeared). Projects guestpost Book: The Participatory Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! And, if you are lucky, you might win a free registration by sharing your thoughts about impact leadership in the comments below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Conversation starters are questions, visuals, anecdotes, stories, or other snippets of content that you share on social channels to ignite engagement. This list should be with you when you are planning out your content and engagement for your social media channels. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Source: Share Your Ideas. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. If you want a chance of winning a copy, leave a comment saying how you might apply some of the science of participation to your social media strategy. Blog commenters are contributors, as are people who engage in contests.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop. They are comfortable with shared authorship of space and events. Whereas formal organizations have a harder time facilitating a shared sense of space and events.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

I hope you'll enjoy this resource and share it widely (with attribution). You can also post comments on any chapter, adding your reactions and questions to the published content. I do it for three reasons: It makes it easier for people to share and spread the ideas in the book.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Furthermore, how can museums and communities work together to share strengths in the community? Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We have seven participatory elements in our current exhibitions on three floors, ranging from voting to talkback walls to an in-depth "make a memory jar" craft activity. and I hope you share them in the comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The system is the same as last year, with a few refinements, including more social media sharing options. Click the session title if you’d like to leave a comment. If you want to leave feedback or comments about the sessions I am a part of, please do! There are 25 proposals on each page. Fundraising. Leadership.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

When people ask about blogging, the question of comments comes up more frequently than any other. There are many good ways to measure a blog's value , but somewhere inside ourselves, we feel that comments are the thing that validate a blog's existence. So when people ask, "Why don't more people comment?," It's a bit strange.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. Please share yours in the comments. I keep visitor comments in my office. Get a good eraser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

So, to close out the year, I thought I’d share this list of books with you, especially if Santa gave you an Amazon gift card. The authors were kind enough to give me a copy to give away on this blog, so if you leave a comment you could be the lucky winner of a book! 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Note from Beth: My long-time colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director, Social Sector Accelerator, shares some thoughts about nonprofit capacity building programs based on extensive research. We are convinced of the importance of inclusive and participatory design and planning of organizational strengthening interventions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

deation Conference is intentionally formatted to create a rich learning and sharing experience. Each of the speakers had their photo on black and white silk screen in the area outside the main room and participants could leave you notes and comments. The description: The !deation My slides are here.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

Instead of writing a post and soliciting comments (my typical approach), I used an online polling tool to create a simple game where you could read short provocations about questionable revenue sources and give each source an ethical thumbs-up or down. 20 people commented on it. A small percentage comment on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

Instead, we are sharing them as slides ( original and annotated ) that not only conveys what we’ve found but also serves as a tool for sharing and discussing the conclusions with others. The traditional form for these type of findings would be a whitepaper.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The advisors share their questions, vote on the ones that they think have the most power, and set the direction of Temple Contemporary. If you are reading this via email and would like to share a comment or question, you can join the conversation here. I don't have the answers.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. The sheet gave people a lightweight tool to use in social interaction, to trade and share stamps.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. nothing happens.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. How do you handle heated debates and inappropriate comments? Before Web 2.0 Remember them? Do you see a pattern emerging from the questions above? Organizations tend to be uncomfortable giving up control.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. As important as excellence is, shared success is equally important in this field. As you add more interactive or participatory elements to your space, I invite you to balance a variety of feelings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” ” Lots of comments pros and cons.

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