Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

While there was evidence of plenty of community engagement work across museums and galleries, most of it was funded project by project. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. It upped the stakes on change--something a funder could not provide alone.

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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.

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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. Tags: participatory museum Quick Hits.

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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." Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." vlogging, and podcasting).

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are also nonprofit specific facilitation tool kits like this one for international development projects. I like to avoid being stuck in the same techniques and am always interested in expanding my toolkit. Participatory Gatherings. Tracking: This is keeping track of the conversation themes and threads. Any many more.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Within Forum One, and among the mission-driven organizations we work with, I sense that more people understand that accessibility isn’t a box to check, but rather an integrated part of project design and delivery. This takes our approach out of a project-by-project mindset, and also challenges us to look internally.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. 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. That was really hard-won.

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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. Need safe and supported spaces for difficult movement conversations.

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Global Network Change Create 91

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

The project is commissioned and supported by NESTA , an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative. Project objectives: • To develop a transferable model for amplifying a diverse city’s grassroots innovation capacity through connecting diverse communities through key individuals. • Technology cards. Roles cards.

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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 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

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. Invite the conversation about forms of quality, and the different outcomes of different forms. Core Museum 2.0

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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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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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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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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. We talked about Cambodia and one of the questions was (an excellent one), what do teachers need to think about if they are doing an over the web collaborative project with a classroom in the developing world.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. Parque Explora opened ten years ago as a community development project. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,&# a story telling tool. (And, had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it).

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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. Roger Hart of Cornell ( 1992 paper ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. Next, Daniel Ben-Horin gave us the context of the TSG Network and hopes for the future that would emerge from the conversations over the next few days.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Design to Invite Active Participation Participatory design can be one of the most effective vehicles for developing relationships, building social capital and engaging with community members in museum programs. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report analyzes many examples of networks and provides tools and tips for Network-Centric Grantmaking. Diana Scearce, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with on the Network of Networked Funders project, is the report author. What will be the nature of public participation and conversation? The report is pure gold.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up recently. The Brooklyn Museum just finished the public stage of GO , a "community-curated open studio project." Voting on individual artworks turned each one into a social object worthy of lengthy conversation. 1,708 artists participated.

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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. —– Follow #smfs on search.twitter.com for the real conversation from this session!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. What started as a fun personal project for her will hopefully become part of our permanent history gallery--a space we are trying to make more interactive over the coming years. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Every Saturday, the curatorial team at Elsewhere , a living museum in downtown Greensboro, NC, reviews the project proposals of its artists-in-residence. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection.

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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. Come By Our Science Fair Booth. on March 12.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

It's a working document, and we mean to put it to work planning new projects with our partners. 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.

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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. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

The theater is dark and the artist breaks the fourth wall and asks for conversation. institutional change relationships participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences game visitors' Patrons clap between movements. Visitors talk over the tour guide. Sometimes the negotiation can be exploited for artistic means.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

posts called "Unusual Projects and Influences." Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences comfort.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

In this full-time role, you will be responsible for interactive exhibition development, project management of all our site-specific work, and you will lead the redevelopment of our permanent History Gallery into a more dynamic, participatory, and flexible space. Join the conversation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Instead of handing out flyers about our upcoming expositions, we decided to ask the visitors to contribute to our ongoing project the National Vending Machine. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. This structures dialogue and makes it more productive.We

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Is this a research project? 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. We welcome the participation and ideas of others in this important conversation.

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Conversation Museum Artist Minneapolis 21

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. Mindful Listening: Master the Basics of Focused Conversation. Conversations with other people at work are a basic part of what we do at work everyday. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

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. and I have always wanted to find ways to invite them in.

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