Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

Last week, the local newspaper did a really generous front-page story on my museum (the MAH) and the changes here over the past eight months since I started. I'm incredibly proud of all the staff, trustees, volunteers, collaborators, visitors, and members who have made this happen. but I didn't have numbers to back it up.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The supervisors toured the exhibition with some of the 100+ local partners who helped create it. The Lost Childhoods exhibition is a platform for 100+ partners to share their stories, artwork, ideas, projects, volunteer opportunities, and events. This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Yes, we have the standard ways--volunteer programs, board service, and community partnerships--but I strongly believe that if we are doing our jobs right, every visitor who walks through our doors should be able to make a meaningful impact. To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. Happening Couch.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Sometimes we purposefully bridge distinct groups as well such as middle-aged women from local knitting groups with young college students interested in street art to yarn bomb our stairwell for Radical Craft Night. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2011

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. But our museum is very small, and we rely heavily on volunteers to do all kinds of things from serving food to documenting collections.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” Is there equity and diversity in your policy and practice regarding staff, volunteers, and Board members? Do you have volunteers?

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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. Our volunteers and staff--and the participants!--rocked.

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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. And the crayon drawings on the fridge door in an exhibition of award-winning local artists? It's just fun.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

We''re offering internships this summer in: Participatory Exhibition Design. Help take the participatory elements of this permanent gallery to the finish line. Curious how we develop participatory family festivals with 20-100 collaborators every month. We''ve also been expanding paid opportunities for local artists.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

On June 7th TechSoup representatives Elliot Harmon, Susan Tenby, and Evonne Heyning will present in a unique Interactive Strategy event at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in New Orleans, LA ( NCVS ). Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined. The scale and scope of participation in A Show is extraordinary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Global Voices is the leading participatory media room for voices from developing countries around the globe. I did some volunteer outreach work for global voices to connect with Cambodia bloggers and was an editor for the Cambodia section for a short time before Tharum (in the above photo) took over the job. at Harvard University.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Our programs end up being the hub of the local science learning ecosystem--especially in communities where there isn''t a science center for miles in any direction. In places that succeeded, at that point, a local coalition was in place to fund the Workshop. Where it didn''t work, no local support stepped up.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations." They eventually became hugely successful NetSquared Locals in several countries. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. There are the ongoing efforts to fight Swine Flu, or new successes like LiveStrong.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2019

The government provides grants at the federal, state, and local levels. Non-traditional forms of grantmaking are also gaining in popularity, such as “participatory grantmaking,” where community members (not foundation staff) are the people who determine who receives grants.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

It happened because we: partnered with local artists and community organizations whose passion and generosity made it possible for us to create incredible events. Over 800 people volunteered their talents to support our programs, with the majority collaborating on our monthly themed 3rd Friday events.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. The content is multidisciplinary, with a collection that includes both local history and contemporary art. There's even a historic cemetery for good measure.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

Engagement with local artists. One of the things we love about exhibiting local artists is that they are often here to talk with visitors about their work. This is only going to become a bigger issue for us as we invite in new audiences and incorporate more participatory experiences throughout the museum. We don't have guards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

It was me, a handful of occasional volunteers, some very kind local business partners and a city full of participants. set up any participatory elements and organize the opening, which occurred the following Friday or Saturday. I often had to introduce the participatory elements to get visitors to join in.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

Yesterday, a lovely article came out in the local paper about what we're trying to do to become a thriving community hub. When I saw that, I thought, If they really want to do this, then I don't want to just help out casually as a volunteer. I've now been the Director of The Museum of Art & History in Santa Cruz for two months.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2009

While this post is not about museums, it tells the story of how a performance group developed participatory elements as an integral part of their show. We see the stage as a safe place for taking some participatory risks—we handpick volunteers who come up to dance and compete, and their terror, fame, and hijinks only last a few minutes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I've volunteered to be a session designer for two (yikes!) We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more. I've been involved with nonprofit techie community and early days of NTEN since about 1998-99 as volunteer.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We are unapologetic about focusing local. Focusing local helps us define our community by identity. We have partnered with the county-wide community assessment project to learn more about the demographics, interests, and needs of local residents. Some of our best volunteers come from the County court referral system.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The WHAT IF Conference is for anyone who supports nonprofit organizations, especially staff and board members, volunteers, donors, foundations and corporate funders. State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. State/Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday. State/Local. State/Local.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Suggest them to press for a feature in the local paper. Thank them and credit them for their work and volunteered time. New to the art form and the museum, we gave them a gift certificate to reflect over milkshakes at a local burger joint after the event. Acknowledge them on your website and always link to their website.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

and discover how to reach your audiences more directly through social and digital media, while still landing placements through the national press or your local newspapers and broadcast stations. Annual Symposium for Nonprofit Professionals and Volunteers. Annual Symposium for Nonprofit Professionals and Volunteers. Operations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The organization invited anyone, including these volunteers and its millions of readers, to help develop the plan. Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world. Gardner admitted that at certain points the non-linear and emergent collaborative planning process was ambiguous and frustrating.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

The most active comment board I’ve ever encountered is at my local grocery store, where patrons are constantly requesting retired items, asking about new options, and generally expressing their interest in the improvement of the store. No one is going to volunteer advice to the museum if they don't think it will be used.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Works are chosen and hung throughout the city using a unique venue matching system whereby local businesses, galleries, and organizations select the artworks they want to host. Volunteers, venue staff, and security guards also cheerfully offered up their own preferences and interpretations. Was it the gritty urban setting?

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Funding, guidance, volunteers, community engagement – all vital resources to sustaining a nonprofit – seem to be in short supply most days. Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival. Communications & Public Relations.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Volunteers restoring a historic cemetery. Local community centers and destination attractions are different beasts. My museum can pursue radical collaboration because of our small size and local focus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. In addition to the Networked Nonprofit , I brought copies of books from colleagues that might be of interest to local NGOs. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. I don’t teach that way.

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