Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation. In the first case, you are making the design process participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

It encourages process-driven performances and art projects. Temple Contemporary’s mission is to creatively re-imagine the social function of art through questions of local relevance and international significance. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). It helps people process complex thoughts. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development. Any many more.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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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. How much of that social change are we going to grasp?&# (That is a question that the Networked Nonprofit asks.). The question is what we’ll do with those opportunities.

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Participatory Lesson Social Media Review 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Ask Good Questions. As you can see from the above list, leaders that have solid listening skills know how to ask good questions that inspire people to think in new ways, expand their vision, and enable them to contribute more to a team or project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Here’s a blog post by Rachel Dearborn describing the process. Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.”

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

The ability to maintain a certain process or state. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. A heroic ideal: our social and environmental problems are solvable; social entrepreneurship; information technology.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? This isn't just a rhetorical question. The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. This table from the report shows how the different models correlate with participation in different steps of the process.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The process can’t be the tail that wags the dog. If you have such a complicated procedure that no one can send an email or a mailing or post to social media in an emergency or when time is short, you have a problem. Having a process that is so well documented that almost anyone can do it is not a luxury; it’s essential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”.

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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. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Sixteen arts administrators, journalists, and researchers weighed in on the question over a series of posts. Several decried the oversimplification of the question, arguing that it's not an issue of "lead vs. follow" but a spectrum of forms of participant engagement. How do you respond to this question?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! being as transparent as possible about the selection and production process. This is a question I'm really interested in. Neither Click!

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Ask questions, introduce yourself, if you haven’t already. My firm guides leaders and organizations in strategic plans and governance processes that deepens social change, racial justice, stakeholder engagement and community strength. Steven: Want to give it a few more seconds and I’ll go to the next question?

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 121

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. It was like getting paid to process the day in a lovely setting. I had a healthy second life as a slam poet, and I loved the world of artists and performance. Share your ideas. I used to say that the Museum 2.0

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So if you have to leave early, no worries, if you get interrupted, maybe a kid barges into your room while you’re working from home, no problem, maybe your boss bothers you, don’t worry, we’re going to get all that good stuff in your hands. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods.

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Community Video Slides Survey 77

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? The 182-page book includes detailed descriptions of projects, budgets, and decision-making processes, along with extensive interviews with artists, curators, and museum staff of all stripes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. That's part of the problem - it is still a fairly steep learning curve to master SL and to really understand the potential you have to experience it. Why did these and others fail and why is Second Life really pointing the. way to the future?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Ghosts of a Chance is a great example of the museum leveraging a niche community (ARG-ers) to energize and provide seed content for participants who are new to participatory gaming. questions as in "What if we wanted to accession these artifacts?" are frigging cool indeed. The whole game as a package is going to be considered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. This is a profound problem and more, not less, social media is almost certainly a key element of any solution. I will make two main points in this post.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This focus on process also bore out in lots of the conversations I had and overheard with artists. For me, the most interesting internal and interpersonal dialogue at Artprize was about these questions, which pushed me to more deeply consider how I make aesthetic judgements and experience art. A giant penny made out of pennies.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

This conference will examine our role from multiple perspectives, focusing not only on the skills we bring to the fundraising process, but also the importance of the internal relationships that make certain those skills are used, and valued. This event focuses on streamlining processes and operations for nonprofits in New York.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Customers' judgments made for more confident, streamlined strategy discussions: Before this, customers' ideas had fallen like snowflakes, enveloping the development process in an undifferentiated blanket of suggestions. This same process can also be applied to visitor-generated content. Look at your standard program evaluation.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

As I process the many sessions I attended and the new connections that were made, three key trends stick out: interconnectedness, evidence driven hope, and new funding models. The conversation also focused on vaccination, the global collaborative process, and philanthropy’s response. Interconnectedness. Evidence driven hope.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2015

ASK is a mobile app which allows our visitors to ask questions about the works they see on view and get answers — from our staff — during their visit. For example, staff responses like: “Actually, I’m not really sure, but we do know this about the object” or encouraging people with “That’s a great question” has helped make the app feel human.

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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. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

Platforms such as Decidim , Citizen Lab , and Your Priorities can effectively engage communities throughout the process of making budget, policy, and funding decisions. We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s s in-box.).

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Nonprofits can post open-call questions on a discussion board and gain insight and assets from countless members of the global community; proximity never even enters the equation. Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I've written before about the difference between participatory processes and products , but this question of frameworks and sensibility is more broadly applicable to community engagement strategies. We're both driven to make museums more exciting and relevant to visitors; we were just tackling the problem in different ways.

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Voice Los Angeles Denver Museum 42

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. The problem arises when expertise creates a feeling of entitlement to control the entire visitor experience. Power is attractive.

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