Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program. In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery.

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Participatory Arts Audience Museum 51

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. and "why?"

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation. We had some money.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

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. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations.

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Global Network Change Create 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This session will focus on strategies and tactics to amplify the impact of mission-based programs through community-driven efforts. This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist? Fundraising. Leadership. Consult the voting FAQ !

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Proposal Louisiana Map NTEN 134

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief. Engaging in ongoing dialogue that is facilitated by a third party who is experienced in creating a safe space. Making “I don’t know” an acceptable response to a question.

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Evaluation Grant Data Boston 52

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. What questions do you have? That you know your community. Technology cards. Roles cards.

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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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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

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. The debriefing question encouraged us to reflect on points of connection and reciprocity. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. 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.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. We could also IM our questions from the adults were listening and observing. the opportunity to program and build stuff in Second Life is pretty awesome. Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio.

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Second Life Life Participatory Discussion 50

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

We didn’t need a staff member or a program to meet each other. The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. DON’T make the participatory activity too narrow or difficult. The first one is me. We talked afterwards.

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Participatory Arts Design Museum 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

That’s a tough question. Ultimately, it hinges on coming back—time after time—to the same five questions: Why should my audience care about [insert content]? It’s made the museum experiences I facilitate more enjoyable, longer-lasting, and much more meaningful. Which description do you think is more accurate?

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Museum Interview New York Interaction 55

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

The core program is a permanent, dedicated physical space, full of interactive hands-on physical exhibits, as well as a tinkering and making space, and recycled materials. Most Workshops also run a wide range of additional programs - supplemental school day programs, afterschool programs, mobile units that go to housing projects.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

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? I was surprised by her question. Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?"

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Sixteen arts administrators, journalists, and researchers weighed in on the question over a series of posts. Several decried the oversimplification of the question, arguing that it's not an issue of "lead vs. follow" but a spectrum of forms of participant engagement. How do you respond to this question?

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Arts Museum Artist Tucson 45

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Designing a new program. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. If you are reading this via email and would like to share a comment or question, you can join the conversation here. You're planning a new exhibition. Considering a new strategic direction.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

I learned new vocabulary and questions to ask myself and others, but the exercise itself felt a bit frustrating and haphazard. A company in which program recipients are involved with governance suggests a community board model. A company in which employees are co-owners might translate well to a coop model.

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

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. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Slides Process Video Open 20

Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Ask questions, introduce yourself, if you haven’t already. I do run the Cal State East Bay Nonprofit Management Certificate Program. And I teach Board Development and Grant Writing for the program. Steven: Want to give it a few more seconds and I’ll go to the next question? We’ll keep an eye on those.

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 120

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

There were also plenty of unresolved questions. Over the next several weeks, I will be dedicating posts to these questions, and most specifically, to some of the HOWs of making museums sites of civic discourse. But today, I want to talk about one of the other big questions raised on Saturday: Why?

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Museum Site Facilitation Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

Joe Heimlich, the VSA conference program chair, explained that once the program committee settled on the theme of “Theory, Practice, and Conversations,” they decided to try to live up to the theme by focusing the whole conference around conversations. At each table there will be an envelope with questions inside.

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Studies Associations Houston Museum 20

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Introduce yourself if you haven’t, say hi, but ask questions, you know, leave comments. But don’t do that right now because we got a friend of the program joining us once again. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I know a lot of you already have. That’s awesome.

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Community Video Slides Survey 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. Next, consultants helped facilitate an asynchronous process involving a wide set of stakeholders using an online wiki to write and edit sections of the plan. ” Paul Connolly.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2013

Every time one of my staff members dons his or her cape for a program (really), I''m reminded of this post. I could approach a kid and ask him a question or put a tuning fork to her elbow without any parents getting suspicious. This August/September, I am "rerunning" popular Museum 2.0 blog posts from the past. And It was a magic vest.

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Museum Tools Participatory Massachusetts 35

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

This week, we tackle educational programs and this question: what program could compel you to dress in carrots and hit the streets? It was the kind of experience I wish I had at lots of museum programs—the staff and the content pulled me out of my comfort zone, engaged me in something unusual, and made me feel great.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants. The annual SPECTRUM Conference features programs by top professionals on all facets of nonprofit communications and development. Entrepreneurship. The 2016 Just Giving Conference. Apr 19 - 21. CSPRC / St.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor. But the exhibit team did something novel. and put them up on signs behind glass.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

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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Slides Museum Los Angeles San Jose 22

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I could approach a kid and ask him a question or put a tuning fork to her elbow without any parents getting suspicious. I'd ask people questions in the produce aisle, bend down to talk to a small kid about what she was having for dinner. And It was a magic vest. What made it magic? I was sought out and could initiate conversations.

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Tools Museum Participatory Massachusetts 34

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

From this naturally flows our engagement in the question of "LAM convergence:" how these institutions live out their similar missions of access and preservation in daily practice and how they overlap as spaces for civic engagement. We want to be platforms for building relationships around a central core.

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