Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

But as a creative type who has recently taken on an executive role, I've been fascinated, shocked even, to learn that the folks in the development department have been singing the relationship chorus for so long. There's no such thing as too much community cheerleading or engagement. On the one hand, this is awesome.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words. Here are my three top takeaways.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2013

I met many new people and learned a lot about technology and community, but the learning wasn''t the point, enjoying the resolutions was. And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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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. But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." The exhibit opens.

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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. And the conference itself resonated with joy, participation, and community.

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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. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The idea is that you specify your values, relationships, and assets, and then match those up with potentially fruitful legal structures, financing models, and growth potential.

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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. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy. The mental model mapping can uncover conflict, make it discussable, and enhance effectiveness. Key is a participatory development process.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. Why haven't children's museums pushed past the 1970s model? To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve? I think small museums are generally better than large ones at fostering local communities of visitors and members. Complicity makes big places feel intimate.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

Sure, I admire cultural organizations that have a strong mission to change education or diversify access or transform the role of art in everyday life, but I'm an insider. A national election is the ultimate participatory project. It seems wonky and possibly confusing to talk strategy with visitors.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Since 2003, Elsewhere Collaborative has been exploring the role that collaboration plays at the intersection of the store and museum through its living museum and international residency program set in a former thrift store in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Who their role models are. 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. Imagine if every community theater was a development theater for a bigger one. Consider soccer.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Agents of Change Summit aims to unify and expand the community of professionals using marketing and technology to change people’s health and lifestyle behaviors for social good. This year, the Yale Philanthropy Conference will explore the evolving role of philanthropy within this ecosystem of change. Agents of Change Summit.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2012

I'll also be part of two sessions on Tuesday, May 1 - one in the morning about money and business models, and one in the afternoon about prototyping and experimentation. Here's what I'd love to explore at AAM this year: Event-driven models for museums. What should we be thinking about as we respond to community demand for events?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

You see them in business models like Airbnb, right? So that’s an extraordinary model and the reason it’s been able to scale so quickly is because of new power. Now you think about the density, the scale, the speed of what Airbnb can do, and suddenly for better and worse, you have whole communities transform.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Every time a colleague tells me her museum has just hired a "community person," a part of me cringes. When community managers are the sole masters of their own dominions, two problems arise. I've been this community manager and know these problems first-hand. I don't tell this story with pride; I tell it with shame.

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Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

As I process the many sessions I attended and the new connections that were made, three key trends stick out: interconnectedness, evidence driven hope, and new funding models. Many spoke to how COVID-19 continues to exacerbate disparities felt by marginalized communities and vulnerable peoples. Interconnectedness.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

And in a world where visitors want to create, remix, and interpret content messages on their own, museums can assume a new role of authority as "platforms" for those creations and recombinations. There are many models as well for what we do with user-generated content in the museum. It's based on creation and delivery of experiences.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a focus on using AI and data as a tool for impact, here are some of the areas I see as key for our sector: AI’s role in the digital transformation journey. Reimagined service delivery: AI-powered digital tools open the door to entirely new service delivery models, offering innovative ways to achieve mission-driven goals.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

In the face of such daunting challenges, the global community must remain committed to tackling an ambitious Sustainable Development Goal — ending poverty in all its forms. Strategies that advance equity and justice seek to address the full reality of communities rather than narrow solutions to solve social problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. To be sure, new power funding models are not without their downside: The campaigns, projects, or start-ups that are most rewarded by the crowd may not be the smartest investments or those that benefit the most people. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It is made by many.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

We share an abiding interest in exploring the community-enhancing roles of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs), especially in terms of the practice of hospitality and service within the institution. It is crucial that LAMs be considered public civic spaces, but Oldenburg's model leaves a lot to be desired. In the 1930s, W.E.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning. In this model, rather than trying to answer a set of broad questions, you look at the spectrum of viable conditions and extrapolate useful strategies from those. But that requires acknowledging their existence.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

I want to reshare this post with you today for two reasons: We are still grappling with fears of losing control as we open up organizations to new participants and new communities. While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. New communities don't just want to consume. Every Web 2.0

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