Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. One colleague suggests that users should be able to contribute original work.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Question Participatory Museum Vietnam 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. However, it is harder to make pivots when you have a team that has not worked together before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The session included an update of Celgene’s work in patient advocacy and an announcement of their Innovation Impact Awards Program , focused on incorporating the patient voice into pharmaceutical and biotech research and development. ” They redirected all staff from current work to staff the effort. This “Dr.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. The express bus I take most days to get to work feels like a big, slightly uncomfortable family. People talk.

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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. In the co-creation model, visitors and the institution work together from the beginning to define the project's goals and to generate the program or exhibit based on community interests.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

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? I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month.

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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! Some of the key lessons we discussed were: providing crystal-clear criteria and constraints to help participants focus their work.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Digital Marketing for Non-Profits panel Saturday, March 13 at 03:30 PM – “How to work with limited marketing budgets and a failing economy to build an online brand, raise awareness of a cause and fundraise effectively. It's more than a desire to wear t-shirts and jeans to work; it's a new mindset. Data will be shared!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

Overnight, educational opportunities disappeared — as did the right to play sports, work, and hold office. Since 2020, the fund has supported 60 groups and individuals with over $500,000, funding feminist hyper-local solutions that challenge inequalities in sports systems and structures at all levels, from local to international.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. Right now, we're working hard to empower Latino residents to see themselves in our museum. We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well.

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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. There is funding. There is interest.

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Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

By simplifying and personalizing the design technique used for the institutional voice, visitors felt like they were part of a natural conversation with the institution. What have you seen work well, and what have you seen fail? Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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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. My big challenge during this stage was feeling comfortable putting my roughest work out for people to read.

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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. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53

sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a bad experience working with a group of people to make a decision. Maybe it was a work task force, a school committee, or family members. It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Most of us have.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

If good ideas are easy to come by, why not let other people contribute them and focus our time on the hard work of execution? Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. We'd talk about the work itself. Level the playing field or tip it in their favor.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Your great work will be validated, and you will be energized to move beyond current paradigms and find innovative ways to increase your impact. Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. General / #WHATIFConference / @ImpactFoundary. Marketing & Communications. 10/24/2016.

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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. They cheered me on conceptually as I worked late into the night.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

What worked a few years ago, may not today. Old power works like a currency. It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” They view growing the chorus to be an important part of their work. How we advance causes, how we share our voices, how we connect. Technology. How we live our lives.

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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 81

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Why do you care about and or work in museums? I don't work in museums because I love them. I don't work in museums because I love them. I work in museums because I hate schools and see museums as a viable alternative. When I started working in museums, I didn't realize that free-choice learning was a radical proposition.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

"How often do we hear colleagues from museums and galleries stating as their fundamental reason for working co-creatively with audiences that they want to make a great piece of museum work, rather than primarily for reasons of social inclusion or democracy?" was the most overwhelming answer.

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