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

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

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. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. Our volunteers and staff--and the participants!--rocked.

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Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

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

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

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? I showed up at the IMA expecting innovation.

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Participatory Museum Web Indianapolis 35

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. Non-Participation 6.

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Design Participatory Children Museum 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site. Here's the description: GreatNonprofits is a place to find, review, and talk about great -- and perhaps also not so great -- nonprofits.

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Reflection Conversation Develop Cambodia 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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Model Activities Active Activism 98

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

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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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

But let me reflect on how amazing yesterday was. 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. We can’t treat donors like ATM machines, only asking for money. We have give gratitude and thanks and build ongoing relationships.

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Philanthropy Global Participatory New York 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

So expect some live blogging, and reflections. It took place in Long Beach, CA (which has the largest number of Cambodian-Americans in the US). I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. I was invited to participate in the first inaugural !deation

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Conference Long Beach Slides Lecture 85

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

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. Reflective time is important, especially when your work is hectic.

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Museum Participatory Reflection Conference 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. Several participants reflected on how it is easy to fall into that trap and looked at beginning to schedule more time with people to build relationships that give them inspiration and energy.

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Causes Change Museum Social 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

They turned Market Street into a playground, a performance hall, and a meeting place. The Market Street Prototyping Festival stirred up a few thoughts related to design in public places, prototyping, and communicating complexity. creative placemaking design participatory museum public space social bridging'

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San Francisco Arts Design Marketing 20

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. The impact was dramatic.

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Audience Washington Museum Intergenerational 49

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

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 Difference Participatory History 29

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

The chapter includes some great reflection questions: What stories can you share to advance your top goals? Participatory engagement invites people to answer a particular question or comment on a post. What stories does your team/company/audience need to hear to develop affinity with your organization?

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Digital Strategy Chapter Advice 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

And most contemporary museums are not only places for information-seeking. In short, it limits museums from being places that are trusted as institutions of public engagement and interaction--the places many museums claim they want to be. You can't be equally committed to both. Be personal.

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Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

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 ).

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Social Media Channel Data Media 100

Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

Our audience has quadrupled in size, and the people walking through our doors increasingly reflect the age, income, and ethnic diversity of our County. 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.

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Public Museum Arts History 27

Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. When asked about how Dd manages to gain trust with local populations, Jacobi cited three principles: Dd works only by invitation, so it doesn't need to forge trust with communities that are wondering why it's even there in the first place.

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Digital Community Haiti Netsquared 36

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Story House Belvédère in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is a magical place. In its short existence (it opened in 2013), the place has made a name for itself as a successful community-driven, innovative cultural initiative. The place surpassed them. Already you can feel Story House Belvédère is a special place.

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Storytelling Story Photography Museum 39

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

It really reflects what we're trying to do here to transform our institution into as relevant, dynamic, and successful an organization as possible. Her goal is nothing less than to remake the MAH as the primary cultural touchstone of the Santa Cruz community, the place that best embodies the unique cultural vibe of Santa Cruz. "We

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Museum History Arts Work 31

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. There was no agenda or angle in setting up the DCM, the idea was simply to create an awesome place for the community to share their stories. The DCM was a place that was part science experiment. I was shocked.and very happy. That usually did it.

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Denver Museum Community Participatory 29

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Third Place: $10,000. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Second Place: $15,000. First Place: $25,000. We have a lot going on in many different places.

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

We talked to visitors and made and placed cards for about half an hour. This was reflected again in a great encounter I had at the Walter's Art Museum later in the weekend, when a silver-haired, well-coiffed lady (the perfect image of a traditional museum goer) told me "I get so annoyed by how quiet museums are. What would you do?

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Experiment Lesson Learning Museum 44

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. The result is a network diagram of cards, a threaded dialogue that takes place across many nodes. What's GOOD about Signtific is that it encourages people to reflect on others' submissions and react to them in a series of intentional ways.

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Game Experiment Participatory Museum 24

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. All of these have gone through a series of movements in the last 30 years reflecting cultural shifts and expectations.

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences. They kept the interface simple.

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Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24