Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Many channels, both personal and professional. Communities; twitter, rss, threads; in person; by affinities; passions. Tags: climatechange energy sxsw events. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities.

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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. 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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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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). After all, as naysayers of participatory design often remind me, the museum is not a popularity contest. Tags: exhibition marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

It is an 8 circuit outlet power strip with a personal sensor. Get Seen by Steve Garfield ; Steve is a video blogging pioneer and the person who first introduced me to its power back in 2005. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. Tags: FLIP. And, all I can say is WOW.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Last month, the IMLS published a report on a survey of 1,700 people, with similar findings about trustworthiness of museums and libraries, and some great added information about how use of the internet benefits both museums (with higher in-person visitation) and visitors (with more ways to find information of interest). Be personal.

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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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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. Only one person has added a comment to a chapter (thank you, Juline Chevalier!), Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. Today, I have a request for you. Thanks in advance.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. " NetSquared Up Close and Personal. These were in-person meetings that were made possible by the website Meetup. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

exhibits that are best experienced in a more personal, quiet, or reverential manner). Visitors not only personalize the artwork by choosing to be photographed with it; they have to look more carefully at the picture if they plan to pose like it. Tags: design participatory museum. Discuss your findings with colleagues.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Vary your specificity, your personal intrusiveness, your wording. instead of what is?)

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum. Dear Museum 2.0

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Help Participatory Museum Wiki 28

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. I turned out people also used these cards to tell personal stories about other ideas).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Key is a participatory development process. The next installment will explain two types of social networking analysis techniques, web crawling and inter-personal/inter-organizational ties. 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

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). They also tag and analyze responses.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. The social media user types, like learning styles or gaming styles, are more like personality traits than exclusive groupings. design participatory museum. Tags: web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it. We also discussed personal fundraising and another excellent question. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site. How do you know if a charity is legit?

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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, The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea. Tags: ROI. Do share your thoughts.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I asked what had happened, he explained that he had been the recipient of an act of tollbooth goodwill; the person in front of him in line had paid his toll. But a gift given from one person to another, however small, feels magical. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how.

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Gift Participatory Museum Model 23

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history. 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. Tags: movement building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

You can also tags. In addition, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has an excellent round up of advice on engaging audiences - which is necessary if you want to dip your toes into participatory media. That is important if you want to stream them with a tool like splashr. Harry's advice: Put a dog on the card!

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Generation Content Remix Reflection 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Resource, production, and exhibition meld within this site-specific environment, and cultural and personal histories intersect with those of a changing artist community to form a layered aesthetic of social and creative exchanges over time. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. There is a simple leaderboard and each player's cards are aggregated on a personal dashboard. The most important aspect of designing a successful participatory platform is to intentionally, deliberately, and clearly DESIGN the platform.

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Game Experiment Participatory Museum 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

They appointed a person in the room as the "Backchannel Advocate" and the speaker would ask them verbalize questions from the backchannel. Jeffrey Veen calls this person an ombudsman for the audience. Tags: backchannel. How can we play further with the distance between those up there - on the podium and those in the audience?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. Second, unlike viral web experiences, the in-person pointer is setting up a social interaction with the pointee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. But I'm making progress and my personal blog and The Show Me Experiments have been a huge part of that progress! Tell me about your experience with tagging. Why do you tag?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. I'm biased, because she's demonstrating a participatory project, but she was able to "show, not tell" her interest in engaging with people. Personal overshare. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. I am an impatient person. Tags: participatory museum professional development. I get impatient with long complicated processes that require buy-in from hundreds of people.

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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. So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization. Tags: Quick Hits professional development. Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

We had documented the activity with pictures of the people with their cards, and it was abundantly clear after the dust cleared that the personality and energy of the recommendations were in the images, not the cards. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. Want to take it to the next level? What would you do?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

The in-house team for Click included two curators, one interpreter, one artist/designer, and two web developers, but the person managing the whole project (Shelley Bernstein) is from Information Systems, not curatorial. But it's pretty unusual to have a REAL exhibition led by a web person. The internal team is led by a non-curator.

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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." Tags: professional development. Facilitator bits.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. This work might have seemed easy, but I assure you, being a museum social person is exhausting. The work is 24/7 and the pay can be 7/11.

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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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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

He noted that many institutions I talk about that successfully foster personal relationships with visitors are small places. How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve?

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