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Put Down the Clipboard:Visitor Feedback as Participatory Activity

Museum 2.0

The events are informal, personal, and fun, but our feedback mechanism--onsite and post-event surveys--not so much. About fifty people participated in the booth out of a crowd of 320--a pretty good sample size. Our typical onsite and post-event survey would attract about 20 people to opt in. We got more feedback.

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Does the Internet Inspire Youth Activism or Slacktivism?

Care2

. “We found that being part of online participatory communities tied to youth interests, political or not, exposes youth to a greater degree of diverse viewpoints and issues and is related to higher levels of civic engagement,&# said Joseph Kahne, one of the contributors to the study.

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Feelings and Participation

Museum 2.0

In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. As you add more interactive or participatory elements to your space, I invite you to balance a variety of feelings.

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Notes About Mobile, Digital Trends, and Social Media Leadership from Knight Digital Media Center Workshop

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” Sample survey.

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Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

Museum 2.0

Survey your collaborators extensively to find out: ways to improve for next time, what they appreciated, how or if they benefited from the collaboration, and what changes they’d like to see made. Here's a sample collaborator survey from our recent Poetry and Book Arts event.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. We had surveyed an alternative high school and half the kids had said, “There’s no adult that I can talk to but I need to talk to somebody.” In the survey and interviews process, that is the primary way to reach everyone.

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Great reads from around the web on August 16th

Amy Sample Ward

" Emergency Social Data Survey Results – americanredcross's posterous – Check out the slides and data from the American Red Cross's survey on Emergency Social Data! It is participatory because many project stakeholders are involved both in deciding the sorts of change to be recorded and in analysing the data.

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