Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

Playing tourist in DC, it is interesting to see how much your online digital life impacts your offline life. There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. At the Natural History Museum, we visited the David H. At the Museum of American History, we visited the First Ladies Exhibit.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2012

We decided to show a selection of Danny's lists in a hallway surrounded by a participatory element where we invite visitors to contribute to new lists on evocative themes ("Things we forget," "The best feelings in the world," etc.) One of the collections on display is a set of "found lists" collected by a local farmer, Danny Lazzarini.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). You can download and read the full version of my thesis here.

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APRIL 26, 2018

One that has found remarkable success is California’s Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. The impact was dramatic. On the side of practice, there's a much longer history and body of organizations working on audience age and income diversity than on race. Within three years, attendance tripled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

Yes, we have the standard ways--volunteer programs, board service, and community partnerships--but I strongly believe that if we are doing our jobs right, every visitor who walks through our doors should be able to make a meaningful impact. To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

We've gotten a little more organized at The Museum of Art & History , and we've now released opportunities for summer internships. This could be a serious research opportunity for someone interested in impact assessment, community attitudes towards the arts, and the role museums can play in transforming communities.

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APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

This is the second installation in a series of posts on the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH)'s development of Abbott Square , a new creative community plaza in downtown Santa Cruz. The MAH fundamentally has two jobs: we bring art and history out into our community, and we invite our community in. We want to break out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The most successful documentaries are having a significant impact on major debates and public policies, from environmental concerns to financial regulations. The creative process of making films is opening up and the outreach efforts to spark social change through documentary media are becoming much more dynamic and collaborative.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. As we start the process at our museum of updating our permanent history gallery, one of our specific goals is to increase intergroup understanding in our community. But how will we know if we are actually achieving our goals?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This project wove together many different participatory threads. Lauren's now bringing her community organizing skills to the OF/BY/FOR ALL project--here are her thoughts on the toolkit and its impact on her work. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process. You can download it for free right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project. Key is a participatory development process. The map illustrating this post was developed by a couple of dozen people in Guatemala from their mental models, to support CARE to vastly enhance its impact.

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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. participatory museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

By placing players squarely in the middle of the issues at-hand, games for social impact allow them to experience the nuances of these challenges in a way that is often as transformative and it is informative. government and encouraging participatory democracy. Games for a New Climate. Never Alone (Kisima In?itchu?a).

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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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MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. MISTAKES I MADE: Taking criticism too personally and letting it impact my emotional health too much. institutional change Museum of Art and History' To work for my community.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

At the museum of art and history where I work, we are grappling with the question of how to help people enjoy themselves while keeping the art and artifacts safe. In the history gallery, we have some blended props and artifacts, and it's rarely clear what is and is not ok to touch. Art, however, does not come to museums pre-hardened.

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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." It requires trading a certain history for an uncertain future--a nerve-wracking prospect no matter the situation. Fabulous!" "But This is incredibly scary.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

I started my blog as a test bed for theories I have about blogging and it's growing impact. Robert Newman: On the History of Oil (Robert if you are listening - I want to adopt ten babies to help run our idyllic post apocalyptic farmstead. Yes, I do work for an environmental non-profit. for instance, but why should my managers?

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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." Also, how people feel at the beginning and end of a workshop significantly impacts how they feel about the overall event.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! Consider the experience of the Computer History Museum and their Yelp! event, the Computer History Museum had 15 reviews on Yelp! Projects participatory museum.

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MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors. There are two parts to this.

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MARCH 8, 2022

Women and girls in particular have felt the impacts of a never-ending global health pandemic, conflict and displacement, and authoritarian government takeovers, to name a few. Together with our implementing partners, we have impacted the lives of over 4 million adolescent girls and young women in over 100 countries. Credit: GOLEES.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Each design choice impacts the amount of thought and efforts visitors will put into their responses and the extent to which they will stay on-topic or proactively build on other visitors' arguments. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives. A lone "What do you think?"

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APRIL 7, 2023

Digging through different folders and files for the names of decision-makers, impact areas, diversity and equity metrics , and previous reports for each grantee takes time. Use Data to Clearly Convey Impact Your impact story is multi-dimensional, so your reporting capabilities should be as well.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

Pre-Netflix, there was never a history of people giving something "four stars" when they dropped it in the return slot. They have direct personal impact. Tags: personalization participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. Netflix makes movie recommendations based on your ratings of films you've watched.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By By the way, the Brooklyn team just won the Groundswell award for social impact , which is sort of like winning an Oscar for social media.) Here are some highlights: Exhibitions that integrate crowdsourcing and co-design, including Click!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend). The Catalyst for Change social impact study from the Glasgow Open Museum. Dialogue in the Dark visitor and guide impact studies.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Impact Foundary / McClellan Park, CA / $200. Your great work will be validated, and you will be energized to move beyond current paradigms and find innovative ways to increase your impact. Impact Convergence 2016. Impact Convergence 2016. 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar. Name (a-z). State (A-Z).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Next week, part 2 will focus on participants' experiences.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The exhibition uses the stories of three remarkable children in history as a launching point for a platform on which kids and families can make “promises” for how they will impact or change the world. It is an integral part of a new permanent exhibition, The Power of Children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Economic Impacts. 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. Versioning by saving a history of changes (who and when) that can be viewed and compared. For teaching and learning.

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