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. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. Roles cards. That you know your community. Get the game pieces here: Playing grid.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Also, the diverse roles, backgrounds, talents, and opinions of my fellow attendees really enriched the discussions we had and enhanced my overall takeaway from the Summit. Plus, my track facilitators were great!) The format, for me, was a refreshing departure from most other conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

If you can’t find someone to take on this role take breaks - say every 10 mins - to check Twitter. If you’re courageous and know your content backwards, display the back channel on a screen that everyone (including you) can see. Jeffrey Veen calls this person an ombudsman for the audience.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

What role should museums play in promoting discourse? How will it impact the other services and roles museums represent in contemporary society? But all of us have experienced more informal, less well-facilitated forms of discourse. Tags: participatory museum. There were also plenty of unresolved questions.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

The gym staff aren’t offering instruction or serving as users’ partners; instead, they facilitate connections among the users. More and more museums are putting resources into floor staff who are trained to connect visitors with content, to serve as interpreters and informal teachers. Tags: participatory museum visitors.

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