Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. VALUE: There are just a few small publishers who serve museum professionals. The second part of the open structure is the Creative Commons license.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. Birds flew through the proceedings. I heard fresh ideas, stories, and challenges in each room.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

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. Studying (and implementing) community-based participatory research methods. __. Sharing responsibility for building the relationship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I believe that social networking can do better by thinking about network structures, understanding roles of people, making organizations more sociable and blending social media. . “ The “good or evil” discussion, limited as it is, is partly because we’d prefer to blame technology than ourselves.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

with cultural professionals, I like to use Tim O'Reilly's simple definition: software that gets better the more people use it. There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. When I talk about Web 2.0 nothing happens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. One area we cover is social awareness, the ability to recognize and understand the moods of other individuals and teams that we collaborate with professionally. Ask Good Questions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This internship is for the truly self-motivated person out there with a brilliant idea for making museums more participatory, welcoming, community spaces who just lacks an institution at which to try it out. Our internships have generally gotten more structured.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Last week, I had the honor of participating on a keynote panel at Celgene Corporation’s Patient Partners annual meeting ahead of the ASCO Conference (ASCO is a professional oncology society committed to conquering cancer through research, education, prevention and delivery of high-quality patient care). Click for Twitter Transcript.

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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 28, 2009

Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. Valeria Maltoni wrote a great post with the same title featuring ten tips on creating movements just two days ago. Ironically, if we have time, the last matter is the least difficult.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

We're seeking great folks for public programs, participatory exhibit design, online marketing, 3D design, and whatever else you might have to offer. The topic of the lunch was internships, and the tables paired students with established professionals to talk about opportunities, issues, and possibilities. We might never get there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 Point out each area of disagreement and why in a brief, non-rantish, professional manner. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work. which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand." Get the low down on social media platforms and what social and participatory media entails. Convio just released a helpful guide for nonprofits appropriately titled, " Nonprofit Resolutions That Make the Difference in 2009 ".

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. I gave an hour-long talk about participatory design practices ( video here ), and Jim gave a small tour of an exhibition he had organized nearby. Facilitator bits.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. While the talk may encompass serious topics, the attitude is light and the conversation is not structured or overly guided.

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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. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand." Get the low down on social media platforms and what social and participatory media entails. Convio just released a helpful guide for nonprofits appropriately titled, " Nonprofit Resolutions That Make the Difference in 2009 ".

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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! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. A series of dinner parties would create space to bridge the personal and professional, build new relationships, and have conversations that we can’t have in other settings. Making: Ideation and Rapid Prototyping.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. Tags: professional development.

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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. Recently, I've been wrestling a lot with the relationship between innovation and impact. My model is the shining star. His is the virus. Which has more impact on your actual daily practice?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Peer-to-Peer Professional Forum / Orlando, FL / $945. Annual Conference for Media Relations Professionals. Accounting.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

We'll also talk about how you can get sizeable online grants and free/discounted help from key professionals.” Let them show you how to create an organic net-roots movement that upends traditional power structures and galvanizes your community.".

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. I still talk to lots of folks, mostly young staff members, who are struggling to find ways to feature visitors' voices and break down standard authoritarian design structures. Tags: professional development. There is funding.

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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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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

Last week, I wrote about MuseumCamp , the annual professional development event we hold in Santa Cruz. MuseumCamp is a playful, intense, spirited 3-day adventure in which small teams of diverse professionals do a rapid-fire project together on a theme. Build structures to support meeting each other. Tag Team the Facilitation.

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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. I am glad this conversation is happening and that both museum professionals and local Santa Cruzans are engaged. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory.

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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. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. Content review (solicited).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. way to the future?

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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. Gladwell argues that real social change occurs when strong, rather than weak-tie networks, organize hierarchically, rather than in a de-centralized network structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. Maybe it is more like moment capture. Act 1: The Problem. 2) Bookmarks can???t 3) Links can get lost in email. (4)

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

You can spot BerkShares in circulation at area farmers’ markets, Main Street storefronts, auto repair shops, and professional offices. a democratically structured non-profit which issues the local currency; the Schumacher Center (which retains its affiliation with BerkShares, Inc.);

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory? The arts were sacralized and professionalized in their funding and presentation.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

And while I'll visit museums out of professional (and occasionally personal) interest, I don't do it because of a deep emotional connection. Much to my mom's relief, I stayed in school but remained deeply suspicious of the artificial structure of grades and gold stars. When I visit a new city, I don't clamor to visit museums.

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