Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. and then recounted some related fact or history. It was clear that Vi isn't just someone who talks about history. Think about how this impacts staff recruiting and training. What made it so special?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I'd say that these techniques support audience development, repeat visitation, membership, maybe could even attract new kinds of donors. Our team focused this year on just three things: making the museum more comfortable, hosting new participatory events, and partnering wherever possible. but I didn't have numbers to back it up.

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Museum 2.0

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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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

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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Museum 2.0

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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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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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. This is more a mind shift than anything else.

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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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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve now been the executive director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History for three years. I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. MISTAKES I MADE: Taking criticism too personally and letting it impact my emotional health too much.

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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

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." This both breaks up the time and supports participants who feel most comfortable expressing themselves in different ways.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

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. In addition, female athletes globally have faced abuse and harassment from the very people who are charged with coaching and supporting them to succeed.

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Museum 2.0

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 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. If you feel that your audience needs monitoring or social support, position the talkback stations in open settings.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 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!

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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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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.) It's very me-heavy and is not sufficient to support the energy in this community.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Impact Foundary / McClellan Park, CA / $200. The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. Impact Convergence 2016. Impact Convergence 2016. 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar. Name (a-z).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Providing a private place for classes, members, visitors, and staff to network can become a "value added" of supporting or being involved with the museum. Shahbaz's goal in creating SwagMe was to create an online thing for the sake of it, not to connect to or support a community. exclusivity. But it's also deeply annoying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Outreach for your program or to connect with potential supporters. A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. Economic Impacts. One small example of how the licensings supports remixing.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Anyone with a smartphone, passion for a cause and few hundred followers can raise awareness, mobilize support around an issue, and raise money from friends and family, and are already doing so. As fellow changemakers, we should be intensely focused on how we catalyze the transformative impact of the individual.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The aim of digital BerkShares’ added convenience, ultimately, is to deepen the local currency’s impact by encouraging even more spending to stay local and fostering increased community investment. Given this history, it is unsurprising that interest in alternative currency was rekindled in the wake of the Great Recession.

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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. Offer support beyond the check. Eliminating non-value-added data supports a lean process that reduces the time to produce and review documentation. Do the homework. Solicit and act on feedback.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2015

Find ways to empower your supporters to be the voice of your cause. More than any other event in the history, this campaign gave food for thought to many who were critics of slacktivism and clicktivism. The campaign was not owned or driven by the ALS Association; they got behind it and supported it. Decentralization of Power.

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