Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

In this post, Ken shares some surprising lessons learned so far. What are the lessons learned? Lessons Learned 1: Build it, and they will come We thought GISKIN was cool and different, but was it cool and different enough to actually attract people to the Park? Lesson: Have faith in your community. Was it too weird?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s participatory. Now, before I lose you to the in-the-weeds grammar lesson, let me tell you why this distinction is important. However, and this is a big however, at its foundation “storytelling” is a verb. That means it’s what we are doing. Whereas “story” is a noun.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Now, after long last, the book is here!

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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. I always create a lesson plan, a more detailed agenda, that includes topics, bullet points, timings, processes, and materials, even if I am the only one facilitating the class.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Kellogg Foundation are cultivating cross-sector learning by developing program evaluation curriculums, and hosting forums for nonprofits to exchange lessons and ideas. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end. No one planned the love locks, but their success is rooted in the same principles that make all the best participatory projects work: it requires no instructions beyond its own example. Nor are they historic.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. That’s the lesson here. It can empower people across locations to share their individual ideas and build on others’ ideas. The whole can be greater than the sum of the parts. Except when it isn’t!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

Develop compelling, powerful participatory offers and promises for your prospective partners. Tour MAH participatory exhibitions and shadow MAH community events. Get inspired, laugh out loud, and share honest lessons from the messy, joyful world of community participation. And it's not just for museum people.

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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

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. Like all good stories, they story of Ushahidi holds several different lessons: People want to do somethiung to make the world a better place. They will help when they are invited to.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. What lessons can you share? Get the game pieces here: Playing grid. Technology cards.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This project wove together many different participatory threads. The lessons I learned from Lost Childhoods are at the heart of the OF/BY/FOR ALL project we're building now. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process. You can download it for free right now. What did we learn? There were over 100 partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The Packard Foundation, true to the nature of its brave and innovative Learning in Public experiment, generously shared with us some of the lessons it learned by opening up the measurement and evaluation effort of its Organizational Effectiveness program to…well… the public. Measurement springs from many different motivations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Posts under that tag tend to examine non-museum things, from malls to games to ad campaigns , and draw some design lessons for museums from their foreignness. Buses don't employ drivers or operate on city streets to improve the comfort and participatory experience of riding. Today, we look at a familiar thing: urban mass transit.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Participatory. Participatory. What they're doing, and how they're doing it, are great lessons for our sector. Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Are those words you usually associate with your government? Transparent.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

This recent article from AIGA, “ Small Budgets, Tight Deadlines, Important Work: Lessons all designers can learn from working with nonprofits ,” was one of those instances. The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. What exactly about this space is inspiring visitors and how can we apply these lessons to other collection areas beyond textiles?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

A few lessons for assessing civic tech from our work include: A Team Approach. Demonstrations of what is possible are up and running in communities of every size across the United States. Now we need to find out not only what works, but what works best over time.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. I wonder what lessons or techniques can be learned from her practice that can be applied with the next generation of tools? How much has our environment, culture, or information overload changed?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

Tags: design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I LOVE the way the James Irvine Foundation presents their lessons learned from grant-making in the Arts Innovation Fund program. I found the article to be a clear starting point for thinking in a fresh way about how our museum can best intersect with schools and artists (and students, in our participatory setting) to develop strong programs.

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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. A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. Projects participatory museum storytelling usercontent' Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy! How and why did Object Stories come to be?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy. What are the lessons learned for using them effectively? It also provides some "tweeting" points for advocates to use. What other uses of hashtags by nonprofits are there? What are your best resources about hashtags?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” She mentioned that one of the big lessons was that while social media was taking fundraising and awareness of ALS to new heights, traditional media and crisis communications was important to keep the momentum going.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

During the session , I emphasized the importance of capturing stories, helping other staff learn to do the same, and even incorporating participatory storytelling into the work you do with your beneficiaries. And with that in mind, the biggest lesson I took away from the entire conference was that organizations shouldn't be afraid to fail.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

During the session , I emphasized the importance of capturing stories, helping other staff learn to do the same, and even incorporating participatory storytelling into the work you do with your beneficiaries. And with that in mind, the biggest lesson I took away from the entire conference was that organizations shouldn't be afraid to fail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

It also means that I can't stubbornly soldier on with a lesson plan if it is bombing. One thing I learned many years ago, is that as an instructor you have to be in the moment, focus on your learners more than yourself, and don't be afraid to flush your lesson plan down the toilet if it isn't working.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand." Get the low down on social media platforms and what social and participatory media entails. Convio says knowing your audience is key because the online tools you choose to use must align with the technical capabilities of your audience.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. Here are my top ten lessons from The Tech Virtual experiment with regard to design exhibits with a community of amateurs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” It is my hope, my prayer that I can use these god given communication skills, our not so new world of participatory media, and make green something so compelling that it cannot help but become an all powerful movement.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Projects guestpost Book: The Participatory Museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! Some of the key lessons we discussed were: providing crystal-clear criteria and constraints to help participants focus their work.

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