sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Those who find it fun are called nerds. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. In grantmaking, one word makes more eyes glaze over than any other – data. And for everyone else, it can bring up feelings of boredom, overwhelm, and confusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I had requested 6 person rounds because part of the exercises included some fun brainstorming processes and exercises. This accomplished a few things: I didn’t have to trash my plans and revert to a traditional lecture. I made it participatory so participants helped move the furniture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This is a fun meme for user=generated content -- Take a photo of yourself with sign or message related to our campaign or cause. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are! This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared. Not sure if this includes a cash prize.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Get your head chef involved and have them demonstrate how to make a fun and flavorful dish. . Do you know what is fun? Games are fun. Games are fun. Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . Another special (and FUN!)

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Some formats are playful and incorporate informality, movement, and fun. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Engage around questions that are relevant, fun, nostalgic or evoke emotions. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. What is the best way for a non-profit organization to engage the audience? How can we turn our fans that we engage with on social media into financial supporters of our organization?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2014

But on another level, the wishlist is the most participatory part of the newsletter. When she said this, I realized that what we thought of as a thrifty practicality is actually a great symbol of our participatory, inclusive ethos. It means making the path to participation clear, easy, and fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. Her final point was that working as a network is fun! The started with some big picture frames. Akhtar Badshah captured the story in this blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

It also has been fun to reflect back on training sessions I’ve designed and facilitated over the past 2 decades as working as trainer in the nonprofit technology area. Over the last few years, I’ve used my blog as a transparent reflection tool. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. Small Group – Making Posters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

On the way to taking my kids to the Montery Bay Aquarium a few weekends ago, we stopped in Santa Cruz to have some fun on the Santa Cruz Boardwalk. So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design? My colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. Early registration deadline is Nov. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi. We Inspire Grant : One year of creative services to one U.S. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. nothing happens.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. This isn't even participatory. It's just fun. The risk of liability was worth it.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. The activities had a really low barrier to entry.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

And that's just the fun stuff. I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. Board committee meetings. Film festival openings. Historical landmark ceremonies.

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Museum History Participatory Arts 53

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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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

I now look forward to further refining curriculum and workshops over the coming months.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

In other cases--like when I was asked to write a "fun" etiquette guide on how to visit museums--I said no. It reenergized me about focusing my limited time, energy, and creativity on the participatory opportunities that fuel me and my dreams. It pushes me to block out certain participatory forums that distract, exhaust, or limit me.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

We''re offering internships this summer in: Participatory Exhibition Design. Help take the participatory elements of this permanent gallery to the finish line. Curious how we develop participatory family festivals with 20-100 collaborators every month. This group knows how to have fun and invite families into it.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. There's a huge difference between the edgy, DIY beauty of Candy Chang 's participatory urban artworks and the dayglow colors, exclamatory language , and preschool fonts of most museum interactives.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

Make it fun! Participatory fundraising often starts with events that allow people to get involved causally with a small time commitment. This blog talks about participatory fundraising ideas and the effect of healthy competition. What is easier than copying something into a message and hitting send?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I used my holiday break as an opportunity for a brief digital detox and time for family, travel and fun. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2018! During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. What I liked about this activity is that it is fun, creative, and people aren’t sitting down, but walking around. And, I always bring a set of fun materials, but it is time consuming to put them away.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. We found humor and fun to be great bridges between the physical and digital environments. Visitor-contributed photos surround a collection piece in Carnegie Museum of Art's Oh Snap!

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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. The culminating project was for teams of campers to design and create a “ zine ,” on change making topics.

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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. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. Photos are fun. Projects participatory museum storytelling usercontent' Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy! interview Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2010

Hosting a session on Monday at 2pm on Design for Participation with participatory design gurus Kathleen McLean and Dan Spock, along with research extraordinaire Kris Morrissey and participatory art rockstar Mark Allen. Signing books on Monday from 4-5 in the AAM bookstore. Signing books on Monday from 4-5 in the AAM bookstore.

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Los Angeles Participatory Museum Arts 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

These techniques are described in more detail in “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. Reflective listening skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a team meeting, training, or interacting with co-workers and whether you are the facilitator or a participant.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

It's fun, I learn something, I'm challenged to contribute something meaningful, and I connect with other users. And while it's fun as an online experience, I see the potential for Signtific to be repurposed in physical space as a dynamic platform for capturing diverse visitor opinions on a variety of "what if?"

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Game Experiment Participatory Museum 24

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. But many videos reinforced common stereotypes about science museums, full of bouncy evangelists in lab coats pressing the "science is fun!" It's great that you'll blog for the museum and have fun learning with kids.

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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. But ambiguous content in a room full of enthused people doing fun activities can thrive. There are a million ways to run a community meeting--different depending on what you are trying to achieve. AFTER THE MEETING 9.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The tours boil down to three key things: engagement, relevance and fun. comfort interactives participatory museum programs Unusual Projects and Influences' 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.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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