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. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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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. Wherever possible, Vi personalized the tour to individuals in the group. Vi was unapologetically personal about her own relationship to the content on display. What made it so special? 5'11", 6'1", etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. Maybe this person was writing about his or her preference for neon paper products, but I doubt it. It was the activity that drew this person (and probably others) to the surfboards—not the objects themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. If you are trying to do an interactive lecture, it stops group interaction. Nothing like first-person accounts. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums. For them, in-depth interactives can support feelings of not belonging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The workshop was focused on personal resilience and self-care based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and was part of series of workshops on resilience. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. I make it okay to modify so no one feels excluded. … Read More.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

It can contribute to exchanges and interactions that are at the heart of nonprofit network building. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. I asked each person to fill in cells in a matrix.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Building Meaningful Engagement: Crowdfunding can assist nonprofits in not just raising funds but also in constructing significant participatory relationships with donors, potentially expanding their current supporter base. It also encourages donations through genuine personal connections. Jump into Crowdfunding Now!

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Forum One

APRIL 21, 2022

Design can feel very personal and often provokes strong opinions—that’s a good thing! Using audience research and even participatory design, where we engage end-users in early-stage design, we help organizations break out of their own internal ways of communicating. This begins with all the stakeholders in a particular project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

(not that this necessarily applies to Oxfam) but its super low budget by using existing infrastructure and orgs of any size could really raise their profile and provide an intense interactive opportunity for supporters this way. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. Here are two observations about visitor participation: Participatory activities invite people to engage in new ways that may disrupt traditional norms of interaction. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere.

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Museum 2.0

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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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

While preparing and consuming food is a true connector at in-person events, doing so in a digital format can be an excellent way to foster engagement and social interaction, giving people a little bit of joy and togetherness in what has been a complicated time. . Virtual Game Night. Do you know what is fun? Do you know what is fun?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular. We shared what captivated and spoke to us on a personal level, not just what we were told was “important."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. questions that draw from personal experience, not abstraction. speculative (what if?

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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. The sheet gave people a lightweight tool to use in social interaction, to trade and share stamps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

This workshop was an experiment in the interactive lecture and lots of small groups. Giving the audience a chance to interact and discuss content in full groups, share pairs, and small groups allowed for some great stories to emerge from the group. In the afternoon, I did workshop and put the audience right on the cat walk with me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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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. Who is the lead singer, guitarist, bass, and drums. Here’s how that translates to team facilitation: Facilitator Lead: The person who is facilitating the discussion or exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Pay close attention to interactions with other people. In this HBR article about asking empowering questions, the benefits are clear: An empowering question does more than convey respect for the person to whom it’s posed. Full attention listening: Giving full focus and attention to the other person.

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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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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

While preparing and consuming food is a true connector at in-person events, doing so in a digital format can be an excellent way to foster engagement and social interaction, giving people a little bit of joy and togetherness in what has been a complicated time. . Virtual Game Night. Do you know what is fun? Do you know what is fun?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. When I described this, a few people had a look of horror or maybe stress come across their faces.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Many channels, both personal and professional. Communities; twitter, rss, threads; in person; by affinities; passions. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Low barrier to entry. Jon Lebkowsky.

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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. Put out seating for two or more with every activity, unless it's something incredibly personal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Develop a Multilingual Online Learning Community for partners, contributors, sponsors, participants, teams, mentors, social media techies from the region, and trainers to interact and share best practices. Each person introduced their: “Five Things You Should Know About Me&# for this project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

And, as she recognizes, putting these skills in everyday practice is uncomfortable — it is a different way of interacting than a command-and-control style She tells leaders she advises: “If your palms aren’t sweaty and your stomach isn’t churning, then you probably aren’t practicing engaged leadership.”

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act. Visitors can share what inspired them in the exhibition and what they plan to do after leaving the museum (similar to the Holocaust Museum's interactive about confronting genocide today ).

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today. They sense that respect and respond by bringing their best selves forward, sharing powerful creative work and personal stories. But they're not there yet.

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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

MAY 24, 2011

We do this not only to stay in the spirit of the participatory engagement styles that are now emerging, but also because the findings represent only the present moment in a story that is far from concluding. Nothing is settled about how even the most relevant and impactful advocacy organizations engage constituencies or attracts resources.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). Chris and Lucy Larson, the SJMA manager of interpretation, wanted to create something that would be both a marketing tool for the Road Trip exhibition and add an interactive element to the physical exhibition.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. " NetSquared Up Close and Personal. These were in-person meetings that were made possible by the website Meetup. Lots of the social media and interactive Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. Personally, I’ve learned to work in whole new worlds, from fundraising to management to community development. It is incredibly rewarding work.

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