Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. One of the reflections. Jeffrey Veen calls this person an ombudsman for the audience.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Facilitator bits. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. As other museums have entered the "participatory learning" conversation, children's museums have not moved on to a new generation of audience and principles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Each person introduced their: “Five Things You Should Know About Me&# for this project. What opportunities for reciprocity?

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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. This community was ready for a museum that reflected the unique creative identity of Santa Cruz.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

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). It reflects the overall mission of the institution in its creative implementation, raises awareness of the institution, and brings visitors' experiences into the galleries.

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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.”. Participants voted on the questions that would be most important for the Brainerd Foundation to consider in its strategy: How might we adopt a hybrid model of new and old power? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. Other person: Oh yeah. Other person: Nope. Projects participatory museum. I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 several years.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. They reflect the soul of the community and can be responsive to its unique interests and needs. Especially when it comes to small museums with limited collections, a distinctive personality is often the best thing the institution has to offer.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Unless your organization is tiny, staff members can't have personal relationships with every user--nor, ethically, might they want to. Make room for personal expression and ownership--both by staff and audience members. They model impersonal, businesslike relationships between the institution and the people who care about it the most.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. To me, SL has the potential to replace all of those social networks with personal 3D spaces, all linked via a pseudo-metaverse. t think I???ve D) is to going.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. After being rejected for a job at the Institute of Learning Innovation (founded by one of my heroes, John Falk), I discovered that person in Anna Slafer.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. At the time when you entered the lobby at the Hammer, the only person there to talk to was the guard.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

The resulting (real) exhibits are high-quality experiences that reflect a level of creativity that could not have resulted from our scant in-house exhibit development staff. We had to be honest with them (and express our own personal frustration at changes we could not control) for this to not be a disaster.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

You did a webinar for us last year, had to have you back, check her out over at Leadership Savvy, does a lot of good work helping folks with strategic planning, which you’re going to talk about obviously, and just an awesome person. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Here we go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

2) Networks are participatory. 4) Networks are a reflection of where the world is going. There’s a big paradigm shift in everything from our relationship to material goods to organizational models. They can get millions of people to help, not just paid staff. (3) 5) Networks make us all smarter.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I have a lot of conversations with people that go like this: Other person: "So, you think that museums should let visitors control the museum experience?" Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections.

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Authoring Platform Museum YouTube 42

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Facebook has a diversified object model--for some people, friend updates are the essential object, for others, it's virtual gifts. This is hard to do when exhibit interactions are not personalized. Are there models out there for sharing physical objects that can't be moved? Gifting is a powerful participatory behavior.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

It also includes reflections from the exhibit team on the project. Some of the advice was incredibly specific; for example, one person wrote a post-it that asked, "should my 17 year old who is going to college in the fall have a curfew this summer?" Do I know if the second person ever came back to find out who Bessie Smith is?

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2007

Level 1: Individual Receives Content (Museum to Me) In this model, the content provider or museum delivers content for the user to passively receive. The level of user engagement is self-determined by your interest in the content and your motivation to reflect on it, either singly or with your companions. You look at an artifact.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. My second example is more personal and slightly embarrassing. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. But wikis are a very specific tool.

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. You gave me support as I struggled to lead a museum through a participatory rebirth. Blogging is precious because it is an opportunity to reflect in writing. The response to this blog changed my life. Museum 2.0

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Museum Reflection Participatory Attitude 27

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I was talking this week with Mark Allen, the founder of Machine Project (an alternative arts space in LA), about different models for community engagement in cultural institutions. In fact, I find that participatory products are often more likely to reflect a formal sensibility than their traditional counterparts.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS has expressed high interest in hearing from interested parties who were not at the meeting; please share your personal 21st century issues as comments and they will get to the labcoats in Washington. One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The artist, Sue Lawty, maintains a blog with her reflections on the project and occasionally celebrates particular contributions, but this blog is fairly contained within the project website and is not a major source of web links. In their personal statements, beach artists wrote about profound connections to nature.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. The Future of Authority: Platform Power (first published October 2008) I have a lot of conversations with people that go like this: Other person: "So, you think that museums should let visitors control the museum experience?" Me: "Sort of."

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