sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. However, when we initiate a more practical conversation, we can determine which questions will be most useful. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 96

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. I suspect these big ideas were opaque to most visitors. This year, we took a different approach.

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Participatory Arts Audience Museum 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Tracking: This is keeping track of the conversation themes and threads. Peer Learning / Coaching.

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Facilitation Technique Chart Method 121

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Weekly, I hear from someone who is putting ideas from the book into action. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. and "why?" to "how?".

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

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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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can empower people across locations to share their individual ideas and build on others’ ideas. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. This enables the facilitator to focus on the flow of the conversation or planning process.

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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. Consider a mural.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 50

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Based on the conversation with these grantmakers, here are four ways grantmakers can make sure all stages of their funding programs include the voices and perspectives of women. Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. Artwork by Toya Beacham See Women and Girls.

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 66

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. Fine writes about in her book Momentum. The concept of openness. Fine, a self-identified ???recovering

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

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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Participatory Museum Vietnam Netherlands 30

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. Consider a mural.

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Participatory Experiment Museum Teen 44

Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Maybe that made a whole new set of people more empathetic to the idea of accessibility. The “checkbox” approach to accessibility rested on the idea that someone—usually a developer —managed accessibility and had the power to make a website accessible or not accessible. We can’t access information. We can’t connect. We can’t contribute.

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Accessibility Goal Virginia Audience 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. This accomplished a few things: I didn’t have to trash my plans and revert to a traditional lecture. I made it participatory so participants helped move the furniture. What to do?

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Lecture Classroom Experiment Learning 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. The event will end with an “ Idea Accelerator ” where participants will have an opportunity to develop and pitch an actionable idea for feedback and funding.

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Registration Leadership Impact Change 128

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. After finishing the share pairs, we did a quick full group “popcorn” of the ideas that bubbled up. We circled in on these ideas: Revisiting the discomfort zone and know it is normal.

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Design Course Leadership Network 105

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

It is not code for one idea. PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? High participatory quality, low technical quality. Invite the conversation about forms of quality, and the different outcomes of different forms. Ideas cultural competency design' It can unlock several. Core Museum 2.0

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Participatory Museum Arts Culture 55

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. Need safe and supported spaces for difficult movement conversations.

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Global Network Change Create 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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Facilitation Training Train International 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Their space is designed for local nonprofits to connect, share ideas and develop solutions together. They have built an authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact.

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Detroit Instruction Instructional PPT 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Last night I had the pleasure of joining a conversation with WOW2 over at edtech. How do you get students to write concisely, boil ideas down to their essence. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site.

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Reflection Conversation Develop Cambodia 50

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. Get the game pieces here: Playing grid. Technology cards. Roles cards. You Examples.

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Impact Community Social Phoenix 123

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

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. I heard fresh ideas, stories, and challenges in each room. The outdoor setting lent itself easily to side conversations, wandering from table to table, or breaking into conga lines (yes, it happened). There wasn't one.

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Museum America South America Participatory 40

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. Social Media Influencers: as an individual you can join forces, share ideas, communicate.

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Social Media Media Social Green 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

They communicate more effectively, stimulate new ideas, and apply what they hear to improve their team’s productivity and results. Inspire new ideas : “Can that be done in any other way?”. Mindful Listening: Master the Basics of Focused Conversation. How To Become A Virtuoso Listener: Practice, Practice, Practice.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. The First C: Content.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2014

We’ll be exhibiting at the Science Fair, running a nonprofit idea generator for our Caravan Studios project, and hosting an open lounge where you can come by for tech support, advice on Office 365, and to hear some of our partners talk about their exciting new projects for the sector. Are you heading to D.C. – 3 p.m.

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NTC Washington Advice Conference 65

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today. How can we use our artifacts to activate important conversations about the future of our communities? How can we make museum objects more like dogs?

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Museum Open Charlotte Participatory 55

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Her case study about Structured Dialogue in the Signtific Game in chapter 3 describes a project where people engaged in conversation online about wild ideas. I believe it worked brilliantly.

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Museum Comment Experiment Participatory 34

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Design Participatory Children Museum 49

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. Have you done this at your museum, either directly with a document or indirectly through conversation?

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Museum Artist Participatory History 38

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up recently. In each of these examples, the press and public dialogue mostly revolved around the idea of public voting for art. Voting on individual artworks turned each one into a social object worthy of lengthy conversation.

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Arts Artist Museum Award 47

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Is it a conversation? In almost all cases, museums assure me that they want to be in conversation, that they want to be responsive, that they want to “really hear” what people think. In one case, the institution jumped into the conversation and converted an ugly situation into a positive community outcome.

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Conversation Museum Artist Minneapolis 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. The serendipity of being able to have an informal conversation with a colleague that you might not normally run into if you sat at your desk. Design must comes first. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey.

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Facilitation Virtual Arts Participatory 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

We are asked to contain those people and make sure they do what we want, and also ensure only the “good” ideas are accepted. People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. Tweet conversations about you. We are asked to do it in controlled environments.

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Create Green Social Media Structure 94