Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Designing for serendipity: Creating environments, in person and online, where helpful connections can form. Transparency: More information that’s accurate and inaccurate will be available for use and abuse, including more personal information and news. These themes include: 1. The scenarios are both possible and provocative.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Scientists design the test questions, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. Ask Good Questions. Often, these types of questions focus on failure or betray that the questioner has an agenda.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

We develop our skills by seeking, absorbing, questioning, adapting, and experimenting, oftentimes bringing diverse influences together to create something that’s unique for our clients’ needs, but with connections to other relevant spaces. What would the structure be like? fancy food! silent auctions! corporate sponsorships!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

In early January, I read through the journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of personal and professional fulfillment? This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions.

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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. That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? Do you have a preferred method?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

I like to ask myself this question periodically, challenging myself to find substantive ways for visitors to contribute to our museum. To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I asked them to share their thoughts. One person said, ”This is so difficult because you really need to have a lot of discipline to make this sort of process a habit.” My question, what is the first step you can take towards building this continuous improvement process in your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Patient advocates play a critical role in setting research priorities, designing clinical trials and structuring appropriate clinical engagement with industry. Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” This “Dr. Mobile health apps have grown in popularity.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

The National Vending Machine is a travelling exposition that tells the historical and personal story behind everyday objects. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. This structures dialogue and makes it more productive.We

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? This isn't just a rhetorical question. The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. The scientists control the process, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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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. Also, on a personal level, I had this really powerful experience with my mother in a Storycorps booth in Grand Central years ago that had a profound impact on me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general. Key is a participatory development process. Each type of mapping has specific benefits. This is part 1 of a series of social networking analysis techniques.

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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.”. The purpose of the Design Lab was to answer two key questions to gather input for its strategy: How can the Brainerd Foundation and its philanthropic partners accelerate the transition to 21st Century advocacy for grantees?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

questions because I believe they invite anyone to creatively respond, unlike "what is?" questions, which imply a correct answer. In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. In the current case, the question is: "What will you do when space is as cheap and accessible as the Web is today?"

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale. MISTAKES I MADE: Taking criticism too personally and letting it impact my emotional health too much.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

If someone asked you that question, how would you answer? Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. "Where were you last night?"

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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." That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most. Facilitator bits.

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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! learning to enter open, personal relationships with participants. This is a question I'm really interested in.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: YOU” reminds me of when Time named “you” the person of the year. Then, for the first plenary, we’re starting with provocative statements, then splitting into small groups for structured dialogues about those questions.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. Also, on a personal level, I had this really powerful experience with my mother in a Storycorps booth in Grand Central years ago that had a profound impact on me.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

First, we realized that our museum is different from other museums, but our benefits and membership structure were the same as others. and that solitary experience person might be 20 or they might be 80. One person expressed a desire to spend alone time with a work of art in a kind of member contemplation room.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 I had heard some influential museum leaders raise the question of what a wiki museum might look like, and I wanted to explore that and related concepts. I started the Museum 2.0 static content delivery machines) to 2.0 There is funding.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Introduce yourself if you haven’t, say hi, but ask questions, you know, leave comments. And if there are questions that you’re like, “Oh, this is a really good one,” feel free to just say, “Hey, Julie, we got a good question here.” I know a lot of you already have. That’s awesome.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. We work with people on programs in their neighborhoods, relevant to their stories, so that people get personally connected. Hamming was addressing the question of why more scientists don't do Nobel Prize-worthy work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. t think I???ve way to the future?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Personal Democracy Forum 2016. Personal Democracy Forum 2016. Personal Democracy / Gdansk, (Int.) Accounting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. And where are you likely to fine more personally relevant social cues than embedded in a network of your closest friends and contemporaries? First, a smaller quibble.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s Introduction.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

I was struck by how this is partly interactive, but within a structured, linear narrative. How did you make decisions about how to structure the story? Jim is the author and he is so brilliant and addresses the subject with such clarity and authority that we had a lot of trust in his sense of the structure of the book.

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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

JANUARY 25, 2010

no tour guides or game masters), you need to start by designing personal services for users, then linking up users through shared interests or objects to promote interpersonal connections. Instead, you design ways for each person to feel acknowledged and valued as an individual. You don't start by designing "for the crowd."

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