Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The Latin American delegates in Medellin reimagined change on a level beyond what I've experienced in other places. The host venue was a living, breathing example of how museums can serve as community catalysts. There wasn't one.

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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. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

A practice-based artist once colorfully described art museums to me as "places where art goes to die." They are hosting performances, exhibitions that morph over time, artists who work in practice-based media, who break the fourth wall with the audience, who invite participation, and who deliberately disrupt museum conventions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

deation conference hosted by Charles Lee. It took place in Long Beach, CA (which has the largest number of Cambodian-Americans in the US). I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. So expect some live blogging, and reflections. The description: The !deation

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. CoverItLive — This embeddable tool works well for interactive typed chats that do not require full multimedia potential, offering a focused place for dialogue online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. The are people here from very different places. I'm hoping to get a chance to finish during some much needed down time.

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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! On 8.8.08, the Ontario Science Center (Toronto, Canada) hosted the 888 YouTube meetup for any and all YouTube aficionados. meetup for Elite Yelp! I don't think so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up a few times a year and host excellent programs on a variety of topics. This week, they hosted "Let Them Be Heard: Visitor Participation in the Museum Experience," featuring four presentations on incorporating visitors' content into museums.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. In January 2013, Dd also hosted a hackathon mainly comprised of local students and programmers, further cultivating ownership and sustainability in the process. Key Challenges in Working in Remote Areas.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2017

At our core, we are participatory government and our Representatives and Senators need to know what their constituents think about the issues on which they vote. This provision would give a charitable tax deduction to all taxpayers regardless of their itemization status. Follow your representatives on social media.

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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 ). ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

University law schools are hosting seminars on Ferguson. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” Are there civic organizations in your area that are hosting conversations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Needless to say, I’m sad about what is taking place in the region and disappointed that my trip to Tunisia has been rescheduled. ” [If you are in NYC on September 24th, PDF is hosting an author talk ]. It is very difficult to talk in social networks with people who think the opposite of you.” ” Widad E.

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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. Each camper had three sticky notes where we added our names.

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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. But I dare you to find a better smoothie/sandwich place in LA. The Newsroom Cafe. And it's expensive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising. One of the newer entries into the video hosting game is Revver. I don't know what I mean yet. I contributed. I love retro film.).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

All of a sudden, I looked at my town as a place teeming with scientists in need of play. In fact, we''ll be hosting Frenemy, Freeloader, and Do You Know What I Know You Know? game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' Experimonth had the potential to generate new scientific knowledge.

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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. 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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. Go through the institution and identify places, artifacts, or exhibits that are highly conducive to social sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

WOW2 hosts immediately made the connection to micro blogging or micro media making. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site. Here's the description: GreatNonprofits is a place to find, review, and talk about great -- and perhaps also not so great -- nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

It doesn't matter what incentives you offer to participate or how attractive the invitation is if the recipient doesn't know or trust you as a host. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Respect and value people's time. A little socializing and sugar can go a long way.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

It also helps that we generally sell out at 8 people, and the guide always has a co-host if the group gets that big. Having two guides means we can do split stops at some places, giving some people one experience and some another. comfort interactives participatory museum programs Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

We do have friendly gallery hosts, but not every hour of the day. This is only going to become a bigger issue for us as we invite in new audiences and incorporate more participatory experiences throughout the museum. all over the place. Low level of staffing and security. We intentionally do not have much security at the museum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (which she directs) teamed up with the San Francisco Planning Department and the Knight Foundation to host the Market Street Prototyping Festival. They turned Market Street into a playground, a performance hall, and a meeting place. I saw a little slice of the future last week on Market Street.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

She published a book in 2010 titled "The Participatory Museum" that outlined the ideas of her blog -- and many of the world's big-city museums brought her in to help them figure out how to shake off the fusty image of museums and embrace modern times and modern audiences. We all know Santa Cruz is such a creative place," she said.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2008

a more community-oriented place. These posts will be an opportunity to hear from more people who are experimenting, leading, and banging their heads against the challenges of incorporating participation into museums and other public cultural places. com) I'm going to host an in-person retreat in the fall of 2009.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Registrants are encouraged to come a day early to explore the Faire together on May 30, after which I am happy to host you at my place for the night before the retreat starts. We've created an alternative website to provide a more participatory version of the standard pre-conference informational site.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

The Nonprofit Technology Bash will be the best place to mingle and meet with folks from all across the nonprofit technology sector, as well as kick back and have some fun on the last night of the Interactive conference. Beaconfire Consulting will be hosting the “Lounge with a Conscience” throughout the Interactive festival.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2009

While this post is not about museums, it tells the story of how a performance group developed participatory elements as an integral part of their show. We see the stage as a safe place for taking some participatory risks—we handpick volunteers who come up to dance and compete, and their terror, fame, and hijinks only last a few minutes.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. The bar is a relaxed place, a place to have fun and chat and argue. A place, in the spirit of the journal, to be civic (though not necessarily civil). A place many museums are not. Why not do it at the museum?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Before the project, neither station had an existing IVR system in place and the primary feedback loop with listeners was through written letters. . The participatory radio campaign approach was used to enhance existing systems, not add new content or processes to the farm radio stations. But he wouldn’t do this again.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

If done right, it can be a financially light way to make visitors feel that the museum is an active, social place. Retrain floor staff to be party hosts. Tags: participatory museum visitors. I’ve written before about ways social networking sites do this ; today, some concrete ideas for how museums might as well.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

You never know who might have connections to some place or another. Recently, we hosted a PechaKucha night at the MAH, which featured a wide range of community members presenting on eight different topics. Always be open to discussing collaborative possibilities with anyone and everyone and then decide if it’s a good fit.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. CMF2016 is the place to hear from best and the brightest minds in the world of doing well by doing good. Fundraising. Accounting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

An excellent first small step is to just identify the blogs that are hosting those conversations on the topics that interest you or inform your work. Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. or software that gathers all the news feeds in one place where you can scan/read them quickly. news or web feeds ????

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium is a place high school/junior high students go on field trips and make snarky videos at their teachers' behest (source: YouTube ). to make recreation decisions, reading blogs to form an impression, watching videos to get my feel for a place--these Web 2.0 If I'm an engaged spectator in the groundswell--using Yelp!

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