Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

SL will take longer to gel into a cohesive environment that has a purpose and a following than the explosive growth experienced by WOW. Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. Come on, get real already.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. Why haven't children's museums pushed past the 1970s model? To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Designing for serendipity: Creating environments, in person and online, where helpful connections can form. We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory. These themes include: 1. Catalyzing mutual support: Helping people directly help each other.

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Network Report Empowerment Structure 104

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. We generated nearly 10k data points and hundreds of text-based confessionals that he''s already successfully used to model cooperative behavior and is considering publishing on it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. How might we create a funding model that nourishes flexibility and innovation?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Elsewhere’s Living Museum, open daily, offers audiences (average 300/week) an exploratory environment to play within and a site where creative practice is made public and the artwork and museum are themselves in a constant state of flux. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

starts to point toward the more collaborative environments that are being termed "social media" these days. And indeed, we find VRM being discussed on sites like "The Social Customer" blog by Christopher Carfi, which is trying to evolve models of customer service and marketing that assume a more empowered and participatory customer base.

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Captivate Participatory Wiki Relationship 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. Why is gifting a model worth exploring? Ideas participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. well, you know. Would you use the Living Library?

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Library Model Museum Europe 20

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 model is the shining star. I draw design lessons from outside models all the time, so "creative thievery" approach feels natural to me. His is the virus. Do you need research?

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Action Ideas St. Louis Museum 31

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

However, I have enormous respect for the customer-centered model when it is executed in ways that truly invite visitors in on their own terms and deliver satisfying experiences. They offered immersive, powerful environments. 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

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. Tags: children's museums design business models. It creates another forgettable museum.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41

Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. The MP3 experiment is a model for how a typically isolating experience—listening to headphones in public—can become the basis for a powerful interpersonal experience with strangers.

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Instruction Instructional Nicaragua Experiment 21

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

social networking model to the real world, the implications of tracking, publishing, and spreading become obvious. Is it safer to engage with strangers in this faux-exclusive environment? Tags: participatory museum visitors. Being on the web means being tracked, published, and spread around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

2) Networks are participatory. 4) Networks are a reflection of where the world is going. There’s a big paradigm shift in everything from our relationship to material goods to organizational models. We’re moving from a “mine&# to “ours&# environment. (5) 5) Networks make us all smarter.

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Story Network Action Examples 99

Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Is it a hub and spokes model, you have an executive group and then different spokes who cover different topics, or is it more of a linear horizontal structure? They want to make sure that they’re creating a safe environment, right?

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Community Video Slides Survey 78

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record.

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

In a world where expediency and relationships are valued over an excess of verbiage and data, grants software — whether on-premises or hosted in a cloud environment — must support these new values and ways of working: Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) functionality will become even more critical in the mission to expedite grants.

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Change Proposal Grant Application 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

It is crucial that LAMs be considered public civic spaces, but Oldenburg's model leaves a lot to be desired. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience. And John Cotton Dana's department store model is an interesting one. In the 1930s, W.E.

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