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. Personal engagement: These are one-on-one interactions that happen using internal social networks, social media, or even email.

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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). The comments, which were previously unmoderated, suddenly were overloaded with opportunists who wanted their voice to be heard on the YouTube homepage. But there are some places where it falls short.

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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 ). How long do you need to archive the data? Does the data need to be exportable?

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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. And then there's the value of primary voices for interestingness. Be personal.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. 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.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. While most of my favorites are small (idiosyncrasy is easier to maintain without too many committees), some are quite large--places like the Exploratorium where a singular ethos infuses a massive facility. They are places that people point to with pride and say, "that's our place."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

That something may be a place, an identity, an interest, a worldview. In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. We're a place you can work off your traffic ticket. Let’s start with empowerment.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Anna had been the founding Curator of Education at the National Building Museum, led the Rolling Rainforest project, and was a real innovator in developing in-depth participatory design experiences with community members (though I wouldn't have used those words at the time). The Spy Museum was a dream place for me. Share your ideas.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

When you want visitors to spend a long time reflecting and sharing their thoughts, you need to design spaces for response that are comfortable and minimize distractions. By simplifying and personalizing the design technique used for the institutional voice, visitors felt like they were part of a natural conversation with the institution.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

So if it’s new to you, you are in the right place. And so I’m going to ask you this question at the end of the hour, what is a next step that you could put into place to begin to do some strategic planning? But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Read more of Jim Spadaccini's reflections. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. They ask judges to self-define their art knowledge. Another theme of web2.o Launched in Jan.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Skilled facilitators work towards supporting dissenting voices, ensuring participants understand different viewpoints.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

The resulting (real) exhibits are high-quality experiences that reflect a level of creativity that could not have resulted from our scant in-house exhibit development staff. Finally, as explained in #5, Second Life was the place where people could actually build their ideas, which became the key element in the development of an exhibit.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

the Exploratorium is a place high school/junior high students go on field trips and make snarky videos at their teachers' behest (source: YouTube ). to make recreation decisions, reading blogs to form an impression, watching videos to get my feel for a place--these Web 2.0 sites form my understanding of what the Exploratorium is.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. New voices energizing conversations. Nov 9 - 12. 11/28/2016.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. The things that I tell you will not stick unless you are able to reflect upon your own experience and go, “Ah, yes, I think this is what Julie is talking about. ” That reflection is really important. . How do we do this well?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. It lets you be the only expert with a voice. Single voices represented on single labels is not scalable. and my emphatic response is YES.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. You gave me support as I struggled to lead a museum through a participatory rebirth. By 2009, the blog I'd started as a place to learn out loud had become the engine of my career. Now, I was writing Museum 2.0

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

This requires the global community to center the voices of people directly impacted by poverty in its approach and support solutions that empower children and their families. Furthermore, CRUS’ inclusive range of grantees reflects the organization’s intentional focus on racial and gender equity, youth development, and economic empowerment.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?" Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. It lets you be the only expert with a voice.

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