Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Facilitator bits. You did great.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. The scale and scope of participation in A Show is extraordinary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This project wove together many different participatory threads. The facilitation was as chaotic and fragile as a spiderweb. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process. You can download it for free right now. What did we learn? We co-created it from start to finish with community partners.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. This takes some facilitation. What other uses of hashtags by nonprofits are there?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). When the opportunity to design my own two-hour museum adventure at the American Museum of Natural History presented itself, I jumped at the chance. Today on Museum 2.0, an interview with Dustin Growick.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

--Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history. But we cannot use these tools to dictate the movement.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. I knew I could learn a lot from it.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Tags: participatory museum professional development. Side note: three times as many educators filled out surveys than any of the other groups.)

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. They really cared about me.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

But that business model requires experienced staff who know how to empower people, facilitate meaningful participation, respond to community issues and interests, and ignite learning. The whole process of being interviewed for the story made me question the stories we tell and words we use to describe participatory work. Not a crowd.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

With a system to help you facilitate application reviews , you can use your grants management software to schedule reminders for when reviews are ready to move to the next stage. These dashboards can tell you at a glance your funding history by program area and the number of applications you’ve received in a given period.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. Del.icio.us the work of copyright holders. Drawbacks.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

For many people museums are purveyors of and intercessors with history. As Kajsa Hartig said, “Museums could be: A tool for humanity to (in participatory, educative + entertaining ways) make sense of life + society, to use for a better now and future, An experimental arena where public, private and civil society can meet in unique ways.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Facilitating personal bonds between local producers, consumers, and suppliers can increase resiliency in periods of global supply chain disruption while cutting the carbon footprint of shipping. Given this history, it is unsurprising that interest in alternative currency was rekindled in the wake of the Great Recession.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

This post was written by my colleague Nora Grant, Community Programs Coordinator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. There are many different models, including The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History , The New York Met , SF Mobile Museum , and even a Pop Up Prison Museum.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Grantees painstakingly provide long histories of past performance, financial projections, and thorough descriptions of expected results. Grants management systems must facilitate better data sharing, providing all funders and grantees a comprehensive, common dataset for research, analysis, learning, and evaluation.

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