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

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In our quest to make the public areas of the museum more reflective of Santa Cruz culture, we moved these boards from a comprehensive display in the history gallery into a main stairwell, prominently visible from the lobby and throughout the building. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way.

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Participatory San Diego Museum History 48

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

The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Notable AAPI athletes, journalists, or other public figures. Try to get calendar listings and stories placed with mainstream news sources. If budget allows, run ads both in Asian language publications and general market newspapers/websites. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Their insights enlighten attendees.

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Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

We’re proud that the MAH is a thriving museum AND community center for Santa Cruz County, a place for people of all walks of life to connect around our shared creativity and culture. Or “I love the MAH because it is a truly participatory space where diverse groups can enjoy, express themselves, and learn from/about/with others.”

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Public Museum Arts History 27

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. 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.

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Museum Product Participatory Community 53

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

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. Like science labs, nonprofit organizations produce public-facing content under the guidance of authoritative experts.

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Model Activities Active Activism 98

Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Web accessibility isn’t just about ensuring a public-facing website is accessible, but also intranets, internal digital tools, documents, videos, processes, and the information people need to do their jobs. 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 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The goals need to be front and center through the entire process, particularly when the measurement approach is more new or participatory and is designed to evolve over time.

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Evaluation Measure Seattle Lesson 95

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The Latin American delegates in Medellin reimagined change on a level beyond what I've experienced in other places. Big signs, public talkback walls, and open spaces made the conference porous to the community. There wasn't one.

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Museum America South America Participatory 40

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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Design Participatory Children Museum 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft. Everyone was asked to share five words or “hash tags&# on sticky notes and place them on the wall.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

It’s important to engage your full team, especially tech development staff, early in evaluation planning to ensure that systems are in place to capture the data you’ll need to track progress and assess results.

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Metrics Method Tech Government 50

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. As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In a letter to their newborn daughter, Max, they announced that they were giving away 99% of their Facebook stock to make the world a better place. While we can’t say for sure that GivingTuesday was factor, yesterday’s most astounding act of generosity and giving was from Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan.

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Philanthropy Global Participatory New York 50

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 Museum Participatory History 47

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Elsewhere is at the top of my list of places I would most like to visit. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. risk participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences' We welcome that.

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Artist Museum Proposal Participatory 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

But there is also a quiet revolution taking place in the field of documentary film. The most successful documentaries are having a significant impact on major debates and public policies, from environmental concerns to financial regulations. The system of making and distributing documentary films is changing rapidly.

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Guatemala Movie Artist Award 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. As Clay Shirky says, “A society where everyone has some kind of access to the public sphere is a different kind of society that one where citizens approach media as mere consumers.&#

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Participatory Lesson Social Media Review 95

Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. has potential for global meetings, public educational events with participation, and remote engagement via webcam. We think Watchitoo.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2009

It lays out some ambitious steps for executive departments and agencies to take over the relatively near-term to be more transparent, participatory, and accountable, such as: Within 45 days, each agency shall identify and publish online in an open format at least three high-value data sets and register those data sets via Data.gov.

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Government Open Help Participatory 52

Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place, and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts!

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Storytelling Collaboration Video Thailand 67

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. It's not unusual for me and our public programming staff members to have several short interactions every week with newcomers who walk in the door with idiosyncratic visions for cultural engagement. We don't have to convince them that it's their museum.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

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). Many of the postcards are gems that provide powerful connections to strange people and places. But there are some places where it falls short. It doesn't launch new relationships.

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Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. From day 1, I believed that we needed to focus in our first year on creating new participatory events to engage the community.

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Museum Director Participatory Culture 55

Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

Any place with people working different schedules in different parts of the building suffers from it. For several of us who were traveling in May to conferences, the Facebook group became a natural place to get reconnected with the flow of what''s happening at home and to share some of what we were learning on the road.

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Facebook Museum Participatory Adopt 55

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.” Could you offer your auditorium as a meeting place? We are a community of museum bloggers who write from a variety of perspectives and museum disciplines.

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Museum Blogger Cleveland Missouri 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests.

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Audience Washington Museum Intergenerational 49

Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

They turned Market Street into a playground, a performance hall, and a meeting place. It has wide sidewalks and lots of public transportation access points. But it''s not just for transportation; it''s also a huge swath of public space. The Market Street Prototyping Festival was not a typical public art exhibition.

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San Francisco Arts Design Marketing 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

By placing players squarely in the middle of the issues at-hand, games for social impact allow them to experience the nuances of these challenges in a way that is often as transformative and it is informative. Kennedy (EMK) Institute to support it in educating the public about U.S. government and encouraging participatory democracy.

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Game Tech Support Module 50

Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts!

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Collaboration Storytelling Video Thailand 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Needless to say, I’m sad about what is taking place in the region and disappointed that my trip to Tunisia has been rescheduled. ” Perspective of trainers and capacity builders of networked nonprofits and social media from other places in the world talked about importance of integrating peace building and non-violent approaches.

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104

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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Teen Social Museum Participatory 49

Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

But, these platforms also provide the potential for government organizations to improve the satisfaction of their employees as well as citizens by enabling more open, transparent, collaborative, and participatory communications and offer the potential to increase workplace efficiency, productivity, and innovation.

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Social Media Communication Media Government 52

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 15, 2019

In Canada, there are over 10,000 public and private foundations awarding $6.7 There are several different types of grantmaking foundations, including public foundations, private or independent foundations, family foundations, community foundations, and corporate foundations. billion in grants annually. and Canada.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. And that got me thinking about why I blog in the first place. I''ve never taken a break from blogging before.

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