Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Photo by CLoé Zarifian, MAH Photo Intern We're working with a guest curator, Wes Modes , on an upcoming experimental project at our museum. This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. How can people--staff, volunteers, community members--help make this project better?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Be internally and publicly transparent about the processes for data collection. The team included the director, board chair, administrative marketing and communication staff and a community engagement consultant.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

Tharum has served as a communications director for a number of international NGOs based in Cambodia, but recently launched his own communications agency. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques.

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Philanthropy Cambodia Impact Learning 75

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived.

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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. Now, after long last, the book is here! Tweet about it.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

A few weeks ago, the MAH Director of Community Programs, Stacey Garcia, came to me with an idea. We have an intern, Kathryn, who emailed each participant individually to thank them for coming, shared their personal photo, and gave them the link to the rest of the photos. It accomplished several things at once: It drew people in.

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Activities Active Activism Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum invites community members to participate in the development and creation of an exhibit. Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Do you dream of a summer filled with learning, community engagement, and sea lions? We''re offering internships this summer in: Participatory Exhibition Design. Help take the participatory elements of this permanent gallery to the finish line. Community Engagement. Community Programs. Video/Photo. Youth Programs.

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Participatory Community Museum History 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. Community Organizing. Participatory Gatherings. Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Strategic Dialogue.

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Facilitation Technique Chart Method 121

Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. I was interviewed for the report).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I dug into the link between the wider theories of capacity development and building strong, resilient nonprofit organizations capable of achieving impact in their communities and on the issues they tackle every day. Why do we do what we do if not to make people’s lives better, their communities safer or increase access to quality education?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

How do you develop programs that are responsive to your community in a meaningful way? How do you find out what's important to different communities, and how do you change your plans based on their needs? So we've started a new committee called C3--the Creative Community Committee. Six goals for MAH community programs.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Community is key: working with, not for. The article highlighted the importance of getting to know the client’s impacted community before creating the brand identity. As we think about creative work, we should also consider how we can move from the idea of “creating for” to “creating with” communities.

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Design Experiment Nonprofit Collaboration 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I'm personally most excited about the two types of interns who will be reporting to me: Community Research interns, who will start developing a methodology for us to use to understand how people in Santa Cruz connect with arts and culture experiences and what role the museum can play in satisfying their interests. Sounds good?

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Museum Participatory Arts Attitude 34

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 Question Participatory Evaluation 45

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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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

Providing financial support for any data or evaluation that the funder needs – especially if the nonprofit does not have an internal need for that data or evaluation. Items to support might include staff time, technology, training, or retaining an external consultant with the necessary skill set. Putting an emphasis on listening.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

If you are working with us as an artist or contributor to an exhibition, you should expect that museum staff will create multi-modal, interdisciplinary, participatory, immersive, and social experiences around your work. How do you help your community understand your goals and related methods?

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Museum Artist Participatory History 38

Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined. What constraints and surprises will emerge?

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Museum Participatory Artist History 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

We have five open positions in Community Programs and one in Exhibitions. These are unpaid, part-time internships in which you will make a significant contribution to our work, and at the same time, learn a heck of a lot about participatory design and community engagement. Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence program.

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San Francisco Participatory Artist Museum 23

Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. They talked about community building. I don’t think there is a way to directly build community. I don’t think there is a way to directly build community. WHO (slides 3-23) "Community” is not an abstraction.

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Build Community Museum Artist 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2011

It helps institutions leverage the skills and creativity of their communities. The budget doesn't produce abstract drawings or suggestions for how we can serve our community better. And yes, they've served our organization in all kinds of tangible ways--introducing us to new interns, volunteers, and program ideas.

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Museum Participatory Comment Sound 47

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. Personally, I’ve learned to work in whole new worlds, from fundraising to management to community development. I feel lucky. Just doing it.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

In our work we learned that social issues are tied to the intersection of community, family, friends and where people live, work, and play. This is especially the case when individuals are going through several lifecycle changes and have yet to filter their cause involvement internally and more methodically.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. So don't be nervous — we're ready to create amazing tech training and networking events in your community! The workshops topics included. Find your closest NetSquared group.

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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. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. What could the peace community do?

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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. Games for a New Climate.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Some might say that only museums with specific African American collections have a role, or perhaps only museums situated in the communities where these events have occurred. We are a community of museum bloggers who write from a variety of perspectives and museum disciplines. There is hardly a community in the U.S.

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Museum Blogger Cleveland Missouri 52

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

Here are a few things I''m learning from this experiment: Promoting openness and participation on staff takes just as much work as it does in the community. We''re an institution that focuses intentionally on being transparent and collaborative with our community members. participatory museum professional development'

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Facebook Museum Participatory Adopt 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. The Third C: Community.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

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

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

It's November, and that means we start looking around nervously at our fabulous fall semester interns and worrying about all the light that will go out of the world when they head back to school, home countries, etc. If you're interested in interning with me and my crew at the MAH in the coming months, please check out our offerings.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

It's a once in a lifetime opportunity to serve the community I love in an institution that has a new strategic plan to become a multi-disciplinary hub for community engagement. The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time.

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History Museum Arts Consultant 55

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

The whole day was spent in passionate discussion about research projects, international crises, and serious, cost-intensive efforts for zoos and aquaria to take action to improve the fate of elephants and other species at risk. fundraising participatory museum risk Technology Tools Worth Checking Out'

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