Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Our Museum started with a clear-eyed assessment of community engagement funding and practices across the UK. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Dr. Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway? didn't mince words.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work.

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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. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next? There are usually two aspects of this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Reflective Practice. Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). The book is an extremely practical resource whether you are working on improving your skills or teaching others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Ask Good Questions.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. What is the heart of the matter for grantors and grantees?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

This is a session where you’ll be an active participant in your learning and will leave ready to apply lots of practical tips and techniques that will give your trainings more impact. Reflection from #NTC2014 on Instructional Design. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. Instructional Design. Interactive Exercises. Design Labs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. One of the reflections. Robert Scoble calls this taking a twitter break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. It was followed by this: 4.

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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. Internet connectivity in this very rural area was a challenge – which is why the last few days of the training sessions were held in Kigali so participants could get some hands-on practice. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Attendees brought up questions about how they can get more involved with financial discussions in their institutions, how we can change the ways we approach fundraising, how we can think about earned income differently. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday.

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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. But I left uneasy, grappling with questions that plagued me throughout the conference. How does their work relate to their physical institutions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. We allowed people to move from group to group once they go their questions answered. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We talked about Cambodia and one of the questions was (an excellent one), what do teachers need to think about if they are doing an over the web collaborative project with a classroom in the developing world. The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer. How do you know if a charity is legit?

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. In this post, I hope to bring out some of the complexities of the idea of restoration as it occurs within an experimental museum supporting both a collection and the practices of emerging artists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. What opportunities for reciprocity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

The book offers best practices, examples, and frameworks for leaders who want to nurture and develop a deeper connection with their stakeholders. And, finally, with the rise of data and automated generation, leaders need to ask and answer questions with data, and faster. It is about listening to support your goals.

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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." Facilitator bits. Always start and end with something creative.

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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. Reflective time is important, especially when your work is hectic. It is this community--you--that I want to reflect a bit more on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

"I have been thinking about six practices around tool adoption. This has been bubbling in the back of my mind, but looking at nonprofits and adoption of social media tools or what I started to call the participatory nonprofit. It is when the organization really embraces the technology and integrates it into its practice.

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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 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

And more practically, is being a trusted source of information a key value proposition? Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. And here's the bigger problem. But is that really our mission?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. The answer to that question depends on your values. I realize, however, that this perspective reflects my own value judgment that local community engagement is a more important part of museum missions than providing digital access to content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork. That means we are looking at theories and principles in light of their application in practice. I designed the course to reflect lessons learned from my doctoral research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

" His post sparked some comments about social media burnout and reflections from the US perspective. Steve's original post over at his blog offers us some wonderful tactical and practical suggestions for what a "buzz director" (I don't like that word. This leaves me some questions. sorry Steve) and skill sets.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

When people ask about blogging, the question of comments comes up more frequently than any other. Why not ask more typical website questions, "why don't more people visit my blog?" They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. It's a bit strange. it gets me excited. It's awesome.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

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 unapologetic about connecting people with history and with art in new ways, even if those ways are sometimes in conflict with more typical museum practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. His reflection " When do online/computer simulations add the most value ?

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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). If you have any questions, I'm happy to share more.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Recently, I've been doing a lot of workshops with cultural professionals around the question of developing authentic relationships between institutions and visitors. And for most institutions there's no practical solution to the problem. This is terrible, both for the visitor and for the museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I had heard some influential museum leaders raise the question of what a wiki museum might look like, and I wanted to explore that and related concepts. But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. I started the Museum 2.0 static content delivery machines) to 2.0

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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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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. Introduce yourself if you haven’t, say hi, but ask questions, you know, leave comments. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. So I have a question for you, and feel free to put this in the chat box.

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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. Nonprofit Best Practices / Chicago, IL / Less than $700.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. Frequently, we get stuck on developing participatory projects or events that serve as many people as possible.

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