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Book Announcement: The Participatory Museum is now available!

Museum 2.0

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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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation & Workshop at Amplified Leicester

Amy Sample Ward

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? Technology cards. Roles cards. You Examples.

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Lessons in Participatory Design from SFMOMA's Exhibition on (you guessed) The Art of Participation

Museum 2.0

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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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Tags: Books. “Start small.

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

Museum 2.0

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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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Everyone was asked to share five words or “hash tags&# on sticky notes and place them on the wall. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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