Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. Koch Hall of Human Origins , an immersive, interactive journey through the origins of human beings and the dramatic stories of survival and extinction in the midst of earth’s history of climate change. Tags: Engagement smithsonian.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different 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. Like all good stories, they story of Ushahidi holds several different lessons: People want to do somethiung to make the world a better place. Tags: Books.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

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. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. nothing happens.

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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 Present their stories. Also, it is useful to share some of the wild success stories. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Organizational Culture.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 15, 2010

My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. I wrote the book with thoughts, case studies, and stories contributed by many of you. I wrote the book with thoughts, case studies, and stories contributed by many of you. Thanks in advance.

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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? They are frequently about real people's stories. Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). After all, as naysayers of participatory design often remind me, the museum is not a popularity contest. Tags: exhibition marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

In this guest post, Stefania Van Dyke, Master Teacher for Textile Art and Special Projects, tells the story of how the co-creative development and visitor participation in the “Thread Studio” that accompanied their 2013 summer exhibition, Spun, changed her perspective on her own work. They’re tagging with yarn.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Stories stick in our minds, get us energized and poised to take action, and provide a memorable framework that help us transfer messages to others. The best part: stories are so easy to come by, but so infrequently leveraged. I'm also guessing that you probably haven't put those stories to work for your larger donor audience.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Stories stick in our minds, get us energized and poised to take action, and provide a memorable framework that help us transfer messages to others. The best part: stories are so easy to come by, but so infrequently leveraged. I'm also guessing that you probably haven't put those stories to work for your larger donor audience.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Your friend who tells fascinating, colorful stories may not be the person you turn to for the straight dope. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. You may remember the NPR stories in 2007 about changes in the way that doctors acknowledge mistakes and offer apologies.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

The National Vending Machine is a travelling exposition that tells the historical and personal story behind everyday objects. All these objects and stories together we call our ‘community of objects’. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

See 3 Video Guide: This step-by-by video guide goes from the picture to the techniques of story telling and into editing and marketing. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. Tags: FLIP. Video Guides for Nonprofits. It's one of the better guides out there for nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

There was no agenda or angle in setting up the DCM, the idea was simply to create an awesome place for the community to share their stories. Whether it was a homemade object, written story, audio clip or drawing, everything was accepted - unless it was was horribly offensive (which never occurred). I was shocked.and very happy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

One of the things you have to do with user-generated content -- participatory media projects is show the work to encourage others to jump in. Unfortunately, it didn't have an option for "groups" - you can only pull photos based on tags or a user. So, I went to the pool and added a unique tag to the 17 photos.

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Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

This point was addressed by one of the panelists, Dr. Alan Rosenblatt from the Center for American Progress, who referenced a Wall Street Journal story indicating that worldwide more internet users communicate via social media channels than email. Tags: Influence Events Government. cannot be ignored by the government and military.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. It is my hope, my prayer that I can use these god given communication skills, our not so new world of participatory media, and make green something so compelling that it cannot help but become an all powerful movement.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. What kind of dialogue are you looking to spark?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Over time the movement and arrangement of things trails a layered aesthetic that convey histories and narratives of changing communities passing through this unfolding three-story artwork. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. How can we improve on these models to becomes sites for participatory giving?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

feed where he is tagging resources here. I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox. t want to make it a big story. on YouTube, Google Video, Podzinger and delicious. The project wiki is here and he has a del.icio.us

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

Side Trip is an immersive environment full of interactive experiences that let visitors share their own stories of the 1960s, make their own rock posters, and explore the music and vibe of the time. I spent a long time reading the stories of first concerts and ogling the posters made by visitors, and I saw lots of other people doing the same.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. Tags: amy sample ward mobile devices netsquared Newsletter NPTech NTEN. To learn more about NetSquared or get involved, visit [link].

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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

As we flipped through the photos of the people we'd talked to, we saw hints of the curious stories that connected face to painting. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. A recommendation is a gift, and it is best packaged in some positive or intriguing sentiment. That packaging was in the photos, not the cards.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It's a worthwhile 30 minutes of discussion about the use of sound to provide an emotional context for stories--specifically, stories about science. And that makes it feel much more participatory. They discuss, on air, their feelings about how stories should be represented, discussed, and spiced up.

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Audio Storytelling Tutorial Participatory 20

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. First, every time a photo is shared, it extends the reach of your objects and exhibit stories. Tags: marketing usercontent visitors. There are two parts to this.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. But that's only part of the story. Tags: children's museums design business models. I've only visited about 0.01% of the institutions out there and I suspect that the other 99.99% includes some real gems. It's not their size or type or subject matter.

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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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Reflection Museum Podcast Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. The only thing I really wish existed were more personal stories from the artists--I would have loved to see statements and photos of them alongside their works.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning. Tags: children's museums.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

If I made up stories to go with the art, wouldn't I think just as hard about what it might mean, what inner jokes or profundity I might spin into my creation? We make up stories about strange objects all the time--the makeup torture devices in our aunt's bathroom, the weird old statue in the outhouse (yes, I have one).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

In the case of Slavery in New York , the end of the exhibition featured a story-capture station at which visitors could record video responses to a series of four questions about their reactions to the exhibition. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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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. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. Check out the other parts here. What did they do?

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