Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. We created a "pastport" - a small booklet with evocative prompts related to identity and place. We created a simple wheel with open-ended questions about identity and place, setting it in a lounge area.

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Participatory Museum History Arts 45

Candid

JULY 28, 2022

Conferences are great places for connection and joint learning, but the wealth of rich, meaningful information can sometimes be overwhelming. We are often so bogged down by the work itself, that we forget why we’re doing the work in the first place. .

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Reflection Philanthropy Participatory Culture 111

The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Get them moving on behalf of your charity with participatory fundraising. Place an ad that says “Acme Nonprofit Thanks John & Jane Doe for their invaluable support and friendship.” Stewardship can NOT be an Afterthought! Ask your donors to volunteer, to serve on committees, to join your board. Get them involved.

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Donor Profit Relationship Participatory 177

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 98

Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. He creates a visual representation of his story.

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Participatory Evaluation Project Museum 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. You would need to create a table with two columns, one for the ideas and column for people to place their virtual dots or votes. For the voting part, you would use a google document.

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Online Participatory Technique Method 113

Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. . Invest in, support, and learn from intermediary organizations, many of which can help you adopt participatory approaches to grantmaking. . Not reinventing the wheel.

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Guidelines Participatory Case Study Philanthropy 105

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

When nonprofit leadership takes the time to build relationships, mentor staff, elicit insights and feedback and demonstrate the ability to act on that feedback, the staff will begin to trust that they have a place and a voice within the organization. This is where participatory practice comes in to play.

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Participatory Culture Leadership Nonprofit 98

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Grant writers are usually juggling multiple grant applications at the same time, so keeping those details in multiple places will save them time when having to verify how yours needs to be submitted, for example. With grant deadlines and processes, err on the side of repetition.

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Application Grant Help Blackbaud 95

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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Participatory Practice Fundraising Relationship 39

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. A Place Where You Can Speak Your Mind to That Foundation. Community-based participatory research. Philanthropy is at a turning point.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. If museums of all kinds are going to make serious claims about being places for 21st century, multi-modal, inquiry-based learning, we’ve got to have robust, diverse onsite experiences to back them up.

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Participatory San Diego Museum History 48

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Too often, cultural institutions design participatory projects that require visitors to learn new tools or make sacrifices to contribute. Tags: design participatory museum. Or, so I thought.

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Participatory Project Library Museum 40

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. She is deeply entwined in the stories, in the place, and in the institutional mission, and that came out powerfully in her tour. But participatory facilitation can be taught. What made it so special?

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Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

This is the first installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. Facebook discussion board here.

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Place Discussion Culture Museum 41

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

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. Tags: participatory museum Quick Hits.

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Participatory Museum Vietnam Netherlands 30

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Leaders should also engage in participatory grantseeking. Grantors who continue to place undue influence on boards with “give or get” policies reinforce board wealth and exclusivity that does not favor middle-class or diverse board members.

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Practice Effective Sudan Illinois 98

Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Participatory Museum Web Indianapolis 35

The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Every story we tell is a serious of events that happened to a person, place or project. It’s participatory. . “The narration of an incident or a serious of events” is very applicable to the type of storytelling non-profits do. And I would add that in this narration, we layer in emotions and details.

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Story Storytelling Profit Participatory 89

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Equity Throughout One of the main reasons for embracing datamaking is that it allows us to more clearly notice the places where equitable practices can be strengthened.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Most of the training days took place in rural Rwanda on Lake Muhazi – which was a beautiful place. The two worlds were placed side-by-side and participants were asked to draw arrows and label the interventions.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next?

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Facilitation Technique Ideas Exercise 101

Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

Forum One

APRIL 21, 2022

Using audience research and even participatory design, where we engage end-users in early-stage design, we help organizations break out of their own internal ways of communicating. Design helps an organization look, feel, and read like an exciting, modern, interesting place that draws audiences in and creates an emotional connection.

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Design Team Beginner Audience 46

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

They see this as directly related to the founding principles of the Mill as a place of experimentation, design, creating, and making. A strong participatory process is not a loosey-goosey, open the doors and do whatever strategy. design inclusion institutional change participatory museum' It''s serious. Invested at all levels.

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Museum Product Participatory Community 53

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

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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Participatory Arts Design Museum 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We have seven participatory elements in our current exhibitions on three floors, ranging from voting to talkback walls to an in-depth "make a memory jar" craft activity.

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Museum Difference Examples Participatory 47

Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

With the Virginia Department of Education’s I’m Determined initiative, we brought in key audiences at a discovery and design phase, much earlier than traditional audience testing would take place. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process.

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Accessibility Goal Virginia Audience 71

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. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Model Activities Active Activism 98

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcamps are local events for people passionate about using mobile technology for social impact and to make the world a better place. Participatory and interactive. What is Mobile Tech 4 Social Change? Each event includes. interactive discussions. hands-on-demos. Katrin Verclas, MobileActive.org.

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San Jose Mobile Tech Change 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. ” Another place to look for clues is any formal audience research that your organization done. This list should be with you when you are planning out your content and engagement for your social media channels.

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Social Media Headline Media Social 101

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. In contrast, the subway is often a sterile world of passing through, a place where people ignore each other studiously. We see it on TV.

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Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We started the summer with no money and a strategic vision to be a thriving, central gathering place. 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.

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Audience Participatory Museum History 47

Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2013

This week, the Santa Cruz Weekly's cover story is about my museum (the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History ) and the work we have done to make it a more participatory, community-centered place over the past two years.

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Story Georgia Participatory Museum 31