sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Equity Throughout One of the main reasons for embracing datamaking is that it allows us to more clearly notice the places where equitable practices can be strengthened.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. She is deeply entwined in the stories, in the place, and in the institutional mission, and that came out powerfully in her tour. What made it so special?

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

This is the first installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. Facebook discussion board here.

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

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. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. After the winning 20 ideas were selected, each idea was posted on a separate piece of paper on the walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Everyone was asked to share five words or “hash tags&# on sticky notes and place them on the wall. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

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. In contrast, the subway is often a sterile world of passing through, a place where people ignore each other studiously. We see it on TV.

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Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. Alois Bell was a diner at AppleBee’s in St. 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. deation Conference is intentionally formatted to create a rich learning and sharing experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ).

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

The are people here from very different places. Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio. s about being able to bring together people from many different spaces and have them co-exist together and have a kind of communication that???s s possible through distance learning??? s what we???re

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Second Life Life Participatory Discussion 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible. Community members, artists, and organizations increasingly see our museum as a place where they can advance their own goals, and so they approach us.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It still continues to be used on Twitter as well as other places. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. This takes some facilitation. And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy.

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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? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The design and feel of the place was different than any science center I''d ever experienced. A Community Science Workshop is a place for kids to tinker, make, and explore their world through science. In most cases, they''re not places where kids can go by themselves at all. I knew I could learn a lot from it.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. " Dd has enlisted and trained local leaders program from the beginning.

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Digital Community Haiti Netsquared 36

Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

They turned Market Street into a playground, a performance hall, and a meeting place. The Market Street Prototyping Festival stirred up a few thoughts related to design in public places, prototyping, and communicating complexity. creative placemaking design participatory museum public space social bridging'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea. The Second C: Collaboration.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

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. The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. We almost always use nametags with a playful prompt on them ("what superhero would you be?," "what's your favorite local place to relax?" Create a structure that values peoples' participation.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Third Place: $10,000. An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. Second Place: $15,000.

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Having two guides means we can do split stops at some places, giving some people one experience and some another. It’s made the museum experiences I facilitate more enjoyable, longer-lasting, and much more meaningful. comfort interactives participatory museum programs Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum Interview New York Interaction 55

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. How can we improve on these models to becomes sites for participatory giving? Ideas participatory museum.

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Gift Participatory Museum Model 23

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? A way to bring people on opposite sides of an issue to a fruitful, positive meeting place? Why on earth would someone set charged conversation in a place like a library, stereotyped as a space that abhors talking of any kind?

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Library Model Museum Europe 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

As Kathy McLean observed, speakers presented several examples of places that are promoting civic discourse successfully--public radio, science cafes, Web 2.0. But all of us have experienced more informal, less well-facilitated forms of discourse. But today, I want to talk about one of the other big questions raised on Saturday: Why?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Facilitators have many superpowers, and like superheroes, many of those powers may be invisible to others.

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Participatory Facilitation Philanthropy Skills 84

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

It's not because the boardwalk is a social place. Out on the boardwalk, or at the zoo or a museum, there's a common experience of the sights, sounds, smells, activities of the place. It's also a reason that people will game with strangers; in that case, the games' rules form the partial barrier that facilitates social interaction.

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Museum Participatory Teen Game 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. Use the authority of the museum to facilitate exchange of phone numbers between strangers?"

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

The gym staff aren’t offering instruction or serving as users’ partners; instead, they facilitate connections among the users. If done right, it can be a financially light way to make visitors feel that the museum is an active, social place. Tags: participatory museum visitors. What other ideas are out there?

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Museum Tools Participatory Discussion 20

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. It’s important that you have systems in place to keep that information safe and secure. Do you want to increase the number of grant programs you offer?

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Grant Software Management Application 73

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Instead of voting in place, visitors could be directed to vote by moving to one side of the room or another. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum interactives. Why do you oppose flag-burning? How is it related to your nationality, your age, your gender, your experience? I was aching to ask these questions.

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Poll Interaction Museum Social 22

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

So if it’s new to you, you are in the right place. And so I’m going to ask you this question at the end of the hour, what is a next step that you could put into place to begin to do some strategic planning? But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning.

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 120

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

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. The same thing applies to exhibits, but Second Life is a tool that facilitates making the exhibit in a more accessible way than full-scale fabrication.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

I get that they are places. But places are sites for people to congregate paid for by people and planned by people. It’s a place for people to explore. It’s a place for people to explore. A place to go see stuff was a common thread in general, both in museum-workers and non-museum workers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

or software that gathers all the news feeds in one place where you can scan/read them quickly. What if all those sources were in one place and you didn't have to search for new information on the page you??????d Tourism Campaigns or celebrate a place or county or state. The content is delivered through ??????news Del.icio.us

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