Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Why Extreme Content Delivery Does Not Equal Learning. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. Flexible Space: Designing for Interaction.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2014

We provide plenty of intriguing content about exhibitions and events and the thing people click on most is the request for bottle caps. But on another level, the wishlist is the most participatory part of the newsletter. It means making the path to participation clear, easy, and fun. It''s the one part that begs a response.

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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. Why go to the trouble of creating content if nothing is going to happen because of it? nothing happens.

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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. Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. The activities had a really low barrier to entry.

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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 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. I am looking for assistance with editing, content review, artwork, and formatting.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. Photos are fun. So what did you do next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. What I liked about this activity is that it is fun, creative, and people aren’t sitting down, but walking around. And, I always bring a set of fun materials, but it is time consuming to put them away.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. When participants get excited by the experience--whether because of the content, the other people in the room, the format, the invitation--they are more likely to seek opportunities to go further. AFTER THE MEETING 9.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The tours boil down to three key things: engagement, relevance and fun. You are a museum insider and a content geek. Ultimately, it hinges on coming back—time after time—to the same five questions: Why should my audience care about [insert content]? How does [insert content] relate to their lives and their interests?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. These techniques are described in more detail in “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. ” This builds trust and establishes your objectivity.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. What the Videos Reveal I'm hooked on these videos, but I feel mixed about the content. It's great that you'll blog for the museum and have fun learning with kids. I've watched a couple hundred.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Unlike Superstruct , which employed a very open-ended collaborative framework to invite people to imagine their circumstances in 2019 relative to several provocative scenarios, Signtific is a more focused, tight experience, both in content and format. In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

The contents for each month-long exhibition were entirely community generated. Unlike many museums that just ask for comments or set a fun little “activity corner,” the DCM gave over complete control and that’s part of the reason it worked. I never knew what my contents were until it was time to create the display.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

People are having fun with this experience, and who can blame them? We use these stories to try to understand objects and the people who own and use them, and to poke a little fun while we're at it. In the Odditoreum, you know you are being given a little space to have fun and poke at the rest of it all.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

People make fun of each other and laugh loudly. Third places are more participatory and offer fewer basic amenities than most cultural institutions provide. Less prettification of content. The primary activity in third places is conversation among patrons. The cultural service model is antithetical to the third place.

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Forum One

JUNE 6, 2024

Think like a musician Those who have played music in a band or orchestra or sang in a choir understand the profound impact of an engaged and participatory audience. User-Centric Design One thing that a good band gets is the need to make the experience for their audiences easy and fun at the same time.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? 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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces. There are three reasons you might value this activity: It will be fun and kind of unusual.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

This was fun, though a little goofy, and I saw lots of people watching who were not comfortable enough to put themselves on display publicly. The content-producing experiences were engrossing for creators, but more importantly, the spectator experience of these visitor-generated stories, posters, and light shows was really excellent.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. But there were 52 people who spent several hours working on the project as content reviewers or copy-editors.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Every non-spammer editor who signed up was granted full access to change and comment on the content.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. Not only are they offering content, they're taking totally geeky endeavors like "trivia" and "spelling bees" and turning them into hot commodities. Can a venue be as important than the content packaged inside it? A place many museums are not.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

But Netflix realized that their ability to sell subscriptions was directly related to their ability to provide users with a steady stream of good movie recommendations, so they invested heavily in creating a rating system that is fun and easy to use. But they aren't just fun ways to express yourself. They have direct personal impact.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

If I go on a date with you and we have fun, I develop some expectations about what will happen the next time I see you. This is most extreme in institutions that have a delightful, idiosyncratic style to their content communication and a more formal approach to development communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. How much fun did you have striking the set over the weekend? The content is focused on the professional area of expertise. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. It's not fun for some people. If life is a chessboard, content is still king. But I also think that it has some limitations.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

static content delivery machines) to 2.0 dynamic content aggregation and network machines)." But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. But this blog is mostly push content. I shouldn't get to have all the fun. I started the Museum 2.0 There is funding.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

The hierarchy comprises five levels, shown above, from passive consumption of content (level one) to collective social engagement (level five). The show content was compelling, but the voting was what really energized people. I wanted more than just a fun interactive—I wanted to understand the other people in the room.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. Why should the staff have all the fun in this way? Tags: participatory museum visitors. Exclusivity helps.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

We’re going to have some fun today. We’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. Steven: It’s always a fun transition. And I encourage you to value our time together, the more that you’re present, the more you’ll benefit from the content being shared. . I’m Steven.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Give away the fun (and easy) part. I think the reason we hold onto the idea generation part is because it's fun, not because it's the activity in which we have the most specialized expertise. The negative side of this is that no one (and it should have been a Tech staff member) was providing a heavy content overlay to the experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

So, now is the fun part. A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Sharing Content is freely available for use and reuse.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Social Capital 2016 is a content-rich, invitation-only conference bringing together the brightest nonprofit and corporate minds for a candid exchange on growing strategic partnerships. This fun, informative conference will spark ideas and recharge your engine to keep doing good every day. Fundraising. Social Capital 2016. Feb 24 - 25.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. I would argue it’s the content and the context that determines and strengthen ties. The medium is not the message here.&#.

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