Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it. Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide.

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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. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory. We had some money.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

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. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. 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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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. SETUP Cut your instructions down to as little text as possible. Accolades are more inspiring than instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. 6: Ask clarifying, open-ended questions when the other person pauses. Reflective Listening Techniques.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The DAM is one of several large art museums that is embracing making in a big way—first, through their event-based programming and open art studios tied to temporary exhibitions, and now, through a 1,200 square foot studio in which visitors can do art projects tied to the permanent collection.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. I have to feel like the post is open enough to my experience, that the blogger and the community of that blog would find my voice worthwhile, that I have some strong reaction I want to share, that I won't sound stupid. it gets me excited.

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Comment Museum Blogger Reflection 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Openness - ????A Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Professional development - reflect and learn about your work. Step 1: Find People.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Introduction.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

By understanding what individuals are highlighting about the Exploratorium experience, the museum can craft its own messaging--and programming--to reflect and enhance the elements seen as most valuable. If we open our ears, our museums and businesses can join these communities. But what if you asked questions instead?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

This blog post includes some reflections about my first visit to Africa, the importance of face-to-face meetings and building relationships, and some thoughts about how some of the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit transcend boundaries. The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The artist, Sue Lawty, maintains a blog with her reflections on the project and occasionally celebrates particular contributions, but this blog is fairly contained within the project website and is not a major source of web links. design participatory museum usercontent. What makes the World Beach Project so successful?

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