Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

That’s right, the session selection process is open for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference ! This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist? Tags: events 11ntc conference event nten proposals sessions voting. Vote today!

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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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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. I bring this up in part because the Smithsonian is currently undergoing a massive strategic planning process across many sectors of the institution.

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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. Tags: climatechange energy sxsw events. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky. Low barrier to entry.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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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. The key question for any society undergoing such a shift is how to get the most of that process.&#. Tags: Books. The question is what we’ll do with those opportunities.

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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 ). They also tag and analyze responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 Identify people in your organization who are open to social media and have influence. Think of social media adoption as an internal social change process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Key is a participatory development process. An evaluation a year later showed that the process was transformational from two perspectives: people had significantly changed their relationships (who they were working with), and they had significantly changed how they understood their work vis-à-vis others’. .

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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 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum. Dear Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2010

Hosting a session on Monday at 2pm on Design for Participation with participatory design gurus Kathleen McLean and Dan Spock, along with research extraordinaire Kris Morrissey and participatory art rockstar Mark Allen. Tags: Quick Hits professional development. Signing books on Monday from 4-5 in the AAM bookstore.

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Los Angeles Participatory Museum Arts 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

There was a wonderful quiet exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts of photographs of Taiwanese people taken in the 1910s and 20s using a Japanese studio process. Read about the Human Library in chapter 3 of The Participatory Museum by searching that term here.) Tags: design participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. I'd argue that the hierarchy is different because it's about process steps, not user types. In the same way, we shouldn't think of participatory experiences as being "just for creators."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Interest in the collaborative writing process. Check out the other parts here. What did they do? Why did they do it?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

While it would not be as "raw" as initially envisioned, urging as many agencies as possible to produce actual queryable APIs with the data would have made more possibilities for truly creative visualizations and allowed new participatory applications to be built. Tags: Government Transparency. Open Standards.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This open process may have overwhelmed some, but many, many more found it liberating. Each participant wrote their own text describing the process, meaning or anything else they liked. set up any participatory elements and organize the opening, which occurred the following Friday or Saturday. I was shocked.and very happy.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Also, I would like to try to turn the process around: starting with the personal stories and turning the conversation towards objects. Projects guestpost Book: The Participatory Museum.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. The Process. Learn more about the Net2 Challenge Process here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. I am still in the process of convincing our board and the managers that we need to be more responsive, but this requires much more than technology. Tell me about your experience with tagging. What results?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. Artists could choose to remain anonymous throughout the whole process or to have their names revealed in the final exhibition.

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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 was particularly true for Click!, Neither Click!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

By calling ourselves a museum, we respond to those cultural institutions that have separated practice from production, exhibition from process, and work from play. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. Content is also being added to the site through streams of aggregated content through the net2 tag. This site, and the Net?? The community is facilitated or sparkplugged by Chris Locke.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. But instead of instructors being sidelined by automation, this process places them in the roles of creators, or remixers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. Julie got about 25 of us incredibly excited about their innovative three-dimensional brainstorming process. The further I go on my own personal design process, the less I care about this issue.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Sullivan suspects that it was because some people didn’t really know how to use the system; whereas an IVR system might be intuitive to some, many Radio Maria and Volta Star listeners are not as accustomed to the technology or the process. Tags: Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Photo: Bart Sullivan . What worked well (and why).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Being on the C2 planning team has stretched my brain to consciously think about the processes and conditions for creativity and collaboration. We've created an alternative website to provide a more participatory version of the standard pre-conference informational site. Tags: Quick Hits professional development.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Now, onto the links: If you have a great idea for a participatory learning project that uses digital tools, the MacArthur Foundation wants to give you money. The requirements for application are fairly broad and the application process doesn't look too onerous. Tags: Quick Hits.

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Fund Teen Museum Game 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. This week, we'll look at the overview of the process of the creation of the book and some overall statistics for user participation. Part 3 will focus on my experience, and part 4 will discuss the self-publishing process.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

We heard loud and clear that these members really want to know more about the curatorial process and how the museum operates. So we offer them an exclusive discussion with curatorial staff to gain insights on the curatorial process. Seeing the installation process was a big one. Tags: marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

sessions and I'm in the process of organizing a third, an affinity group meeting! We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more. There is just no replacement for face-to-face connections. I've volunteered to be a session designer for two (yikes!)

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. Tags: marketing usercontent visitors. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. Tags: web2.0

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Both resulting exhibitions featured visitor-submitted content, but each institution did so in a way that felt comfortable to their work processes and abilities. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0 The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice.

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