Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Why Use One? Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. The project is designed to scale. What's the "use" of visitors' comments?

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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. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. This is a problem for two reasons. Would you design an interactive exhibit that only 1% of visitors would want to use?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It can be uncomfortable to admit, but many web designers, myself included, first learned about digital accessibility as a regulation. It’s not a way to design—it’s simply design. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process. Focus on content.

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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. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. This is a problem for two reasons. Would you design an interactive exhibit that only 1% of visitors would want to use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Strategic Dialogue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades. Documentation of the Visioning Process. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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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.

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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. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with my fellow track facilitators to design the process that we will lead the participants in our track through.

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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? Is this a problem? I think so.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The program operates like a camp that is co-led by the teens involved.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We have seven participatory elements in our current exhibitions on three floors, ranging from voting to talkback walls to an in-depth "make a memory jar" craft activity. and I hope you share them in the comments.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2016

This is where you link challenge to engagement through the use of participatory language that: helps individual supporters imagine themselves as part of the solution to the problem; underscores how they are joining others in a cause worth fighting for. Creating a “Strategy” Narrative for Supporters.

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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

APRIL 4, 2012

It's a particularly tough problem because of the multiple psychological steps required to shift someone from ignorance or disinterest to action. When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act. The largest was a "wish canopy" that hangs above the entire gallery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. Self-care has to be customized to the individual – they have to design their own adventure or it won’t work. This is a Band-Aid, not addressing the main problem.”

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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

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. If successful uses of cognitive surplus required designers to get it right the first time, you’d be able to count the successes on the fingers of one hand.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

Ready for a math problem? For me, Downward Draw provided an unusual opportunity to examine the more casual end of the participatory spectrum. For now, the math problem's answer is the favorite cop-out of every struggling student: "not enough information." A museum holds a free program in a semi-public space. They asked.

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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. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Games’ strength is not showing “this is the problem, and here is the answer,” but to broaden players’ perspectives, build engagement, and ask “what are some ways we could address this?” Created by ESI Design, the 100-player Senate Immersion Module game was made for the Edward M.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

How would you design a recommendation system for a museum? When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour. When it comes to museums, recommendation systems are a natural solution for the problem of the customized tour. They have direct personal impact.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. The problem is that at least so far, the tools I've provided for discussion on the book's website are not gaining traction. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. Thanks in advance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It actually encourages that person’s development as a thinker and problem solver, thereby delivering both short-term and long-term value: the short-term value of generating a solution to the issue at hand and the long-term value of giving subordinates the tools to handle similar issues in the future independently.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Digital organizing: Once communities are digitally literate, they can use the tools to advocate for addressing the challenges and problems they are facing. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. These may include things like mobile phones, cameras, or even drones.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

But here's the problem. And here's the bigger problem. Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. I don't entirely trust these reports. It's great that museums are a trusted source of information.

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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. This philosophy steers our work, and it means that we do things a little differently than some other museums and galleries.

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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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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

Studying engineering taught me to think like a designer: state the problem, brainstorm, test, iterate. The “we” isn’t always staff; in most cases, our staff work with community partners in a participatory, co-creative model. Working with creative people taught me to think like an artist: observe, explore, dive in, look out.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. Letting myself ignore glaring problems that still exist. I jumped in and started talking about how we are designing furniture for it, that we''ve been focusing on injecting warmth in gallery spaces, that it is energized and peopled during events. They are still problems.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 20, 2007

A preliminary health survey showed that by far the most serious problem confronting the village is malaria, and that is the area where work will begin.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! More on that in months to come.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I was there for a think tank about the reinstallation along with a handful of designers and academics. So when the folks at the think tank asked us to make a media piece to address one problem we saw with the current setup, I decided to do a little experiment in visitor-driven navigation. There's no central spine or hub to anchor you.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. Design thinking, agile, human-centered design: I like problems that can be solved in different ways, but I'm not always good at following systems.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. My strategy is: make it work really well, research what works and doesn't, and share the design lessons with the world. Maybe not. My model is the shining star. His is the virus.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Thank you to everyone who came and helped co-create an exciting experimental event in a beautiful city.

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