Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The session included an update of Celgene’s work in patient advocacy and an announcement of their Innovation Impact Awards Program , focused on incorporating the patient voice into pharmaceutical and biotech research and development. Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

In GISKIN, Pandora and Drake aren’t museum people: they have no special knowledge; they ask the same questions the audience is asking and don’t always get answers. The lesson here is a really important one for today, and it’s this: the storytelling ego that’s so important in non-participatory media can be a liability in participatory media.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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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. “Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. This was followed by a presentations and discussion with four thought leaders who shared their insights and knowledge around four different themes: New Power : Henry Timms, 92nd Street Y. Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

When I previously wrote about Twitter, that was the extent of my knowledge. to be a more participatory site with comment streams rampantly debating each post topic, but the reality is that my voice dominates the site. If I told you I'd created a participatory website in which 0.3% On Twitter, I'm one voice among many.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The Smithsonian's current (and historic) mission has only one actionable statement: "increase and diffuse knowledge." While most of the voices represented are positive about a "Smithsonian 2.0"

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. People are seeing that collection knowledge should be shared in ways that center the visitor instead of the museum. And, yet, there is so much to do.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Several said things like, "I was curious to see how this kind of participatory, collaborative approach would work in practice."

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Richard Rabinowitz, curator of exhibition, noted that the progressive nature of the questions yielded increasingly complex responses, and that "it was typically in response to the third or fourth question that visitors, now warmed up, typically began relating the exhibition to their previous knowledge and experience."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

They ask judges to self-define their art knowledge. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. They make it easy to evangelize. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. More at TechCrunch and Technology in the Arts Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The Wikimedia Foundation ambitiously envisions a “world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” Certain people were encouraged to be involved in these groups to ensure that under-represented voices, especially from the southern hemisphere, were heard.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

For anyone who’s been my student or come to my trainings, I’m really focused on usable knowledge. But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning. A strategic plan is only as good as the voices and perspectives of the people weighing in on the plan.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. New voices energizing conversations. Mar 20 - 23. Apr 26 - 29.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

But we're trying to model a kind of conversation with important people, powerful people, but particularly knowledgeable people, where we say--YOU can go up to a person with a lot of knowledge and ask him "why?," A novice alone on an exhibit panel could be as isolating as any other single exhibit voice, and potentially more annoying.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I didn't have a clue about the other rationales for museums--places of stored knowledge, places to keep stuff, places to colonize minds. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. BUT we won't acknowledge their voices and their meaning. My goal is to break down those BUTs.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Single voices represented on single labels is not scalable. With no further ado, enjoy this post. Power is attractive.

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