Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Part 2: How do you develop the right questions?

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APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Part 2: How do you develop the right questions?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. Those feelings developed over hours of classroom time with a human. Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late.

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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 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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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Offering free workshops open to the public on participatory museum practice in Wellington (Nov 26), Christchurch (Nov 27), and Auckland (Dec 14). Leading internal workshops with Te Papa (Nov 25), the Powerhouse Museum (Dec 8-9) the State Library of Queensland (Dec 10-11), and the Auckland War Memorial Museum (Dec 15).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums (and libraries) are trusted sources of information. They were both commissioned by organizations whose purpose is to support museums and libraries. 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.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Instead of just creating a league for top play and hoping an audience would show up, soccer is developing a constantly-refreshing audience by creating opportunities for kids as young as four to participate in AYSO youth leagues. Imagine if every community theater was a development theater for a bigger one.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post. Adam and I first met in 2008, when we were part of a National Academies think tank-ish thing on the future of museums and libraries. This whole debate made me think about Adam Lerner , the Director and Chief Animator of the MCA Denver.

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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. Tags: participatory museum. Dear Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

I strongly believe that participation is more about operation than development. The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. I have been looking for a way to transition to working in Santa Cruz instead of traveling constantly.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 20, 2007

The renovation of an old community center to serve as a library and discussion place should help in this effort. In an email, Caitlin shared the survey results with me and pointed out a group of questions that revealed the low level of health knowledge and information among Sikoro residents.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Ruth is a curator of pictorial collections for Puke Ariki, a museum/library/visitor center in the small city of New Plymouth, New Zealand. If you're doing something special and participatory, for goodness sakes, let me know. You want to get some projects going, but you're not in any particular position of power. Where do you start?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places. I'd heard before about Riverside's development, which involved many community focus groups, workshops, and talkbacks. My career first got moving at a brilliant example of the customer-centered museum: the International Spy Museum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Pop up libraries, performance spaces, and seating areas. Hundreds of hours of community dialogue went into the development of the Market Street Festival prototypes--both on the street and online. creative placemaking design participatory museum public space social bridging' A fitness trail for urban life.

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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. Here was have the professional development or career blog like Museum2.0 , and Im in Ur Museum Blogz that is written by an individual, not as part of the organization. Another theme of web2.o

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2008

The focus will be on developing your wildest dreams as they relate to museums, libraries, etc. The book will be about applying community and participatory design principles to museums, and I'm going to try to complete it by summer of 2009. com) I'm going to host an in-person retreat in the fall of 2009.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

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! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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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 goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

But these events have benefits both in terms of audience development and word-of-mouth marketing. Audience Development These events bring in new audiences in a comfortable context. Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content. Projects participatory museum.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2013

C3 topics have ranged from exhibition development, community needs, outreach programs, our Loyalty Lab project, and family programs. A genuine enthusiasm for sharing their skills, building knowledge and developing relationships in the community even if they haven’t done it before. Always meet your collaborators in person.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Assessment tools like the Museums, Libraries, and 21st Century Skills report can help you couch both your goals and evaluation in contexts that are well-understood by funders and executives alike. Ideas professional development. There are several good resources on evaluating participation. Projects Core Museum 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

Earlier this month, I participated in a social media library giveaway organized by Steve Cunningham , who like me, loves books. For the social media library giveaway I asked folks to leave a comment on how they would use the books to shape their 2010 social media strategy. Erin even wrote a little poetry as part of her entry.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Institutions tying their online and onsite activities, as the Ontario Science Centre did when it hosted a YouTube meetup , or the Smithsonian American Art Museum did when they developed an alternate reality game. But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. There is funding.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I think it's a good thing that librarything gives me a way to talk to strangers about books that feels safer than approaching the drooling guy at the public library. It almost seems quaint to imagine that until very recently, library books listed names of actual people who had actually read the book.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend). The evaluation of the first Turkish Living Library , held in 2007 at the Rock for Peace festival in Istanbul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work. So, now is the fun part. the work of copyright holders.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Museums are quality learning spaces, but so are libraries. Museum house things, but so do libraries. Bronwyn Coulston also talked about the cracks and our ability to heal our field, “An imperfect idea, developed in inherently flawed times and cultures. Shaelyn Amaio, a museum worker, agreed, as do I.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

She's found great questions from her training in early childhood development, parenting magazines, and the occasional visitor comment that can be translated into a new question. This is a participatory comment board in a true sense. to figure out what resources to stock in the Nursery's library in its next iteration.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. A true evangelist is moved to create, is a seamless co-creator with your organization, and motivated spreader of content.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation. But the exhibit team did something novel.

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JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What are the essential differences and similarities between libraries and museums?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Jessica Colaco places books in the iHub Community Library. It is always eye-opening to work on the social web from developing countries and realized just how spoiled we are in the US with fast and plentiful bandwidth. It requires a different way of working. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion.

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