Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 98

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

Participatory 52

Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language.

Facilitation 50

Facilitation Training Train International 50

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work.

Participatory 51

Participatory Arts Audience Museum 51

Candid

MAY 4, 2022

But in the face of the epidemic, European philanthropy, which does not typically work in humanitarian emergencies, had to step in due to these extraordinary circumstances. . In addition to funding racial justice work, some funders have started to grapple with their own historical links to the slave trade.

Europe 98

Europe Case Study Fund Practice 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Global Voices is the leading participatory media room for voices from developing countries around the globe. I've the honor of being involved with the Global Voices on and off for a couple of years. So, that's why I'm hoping you'll join me and support Global Voices. I'm a donor and let me tell you why.

Voice 50

Voice Global Cambodia Support 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. As Henry Timms says, “ Will the voices of reason be drowned out by extremists of all kinds?

Participatory 116

Participatory Leadership Model Skills 116

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. While there was evidence of plenty of community engagement work across museums and galleries, most of it was funded project by project. didn't mince words.

Museum 20

Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

During a workshop on museum visitor participation, someone spoke up and objected: "this might work in California, but it will never work in Texas." Then in Australia: "this might work in America, but it will never work in Australia." In New Zealand: "this might work in Australia, but it will never work in New Zealand."

Culture 49

Culture Participatory New Zealand Museum 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

It incorporates work by local artists, old and new construction, and is completely gorgeous. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have.

Museum 51

Museum Participatory Model Seattle 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

In 2005, we got a chance to meet face-to-face in London at the Global Voices Blogging Summit after I transitioned from being the Cambodia bridge blogger. He spoke about networked mindsets and how to work across sectors. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend. I’ll share that in my next post!

Philanthropy 75

Philanthropy Cambodia Impact Learning 75

Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

Storytelling 75

Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

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.

Participatory 27

Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. They were doing the work. Here are some of the things that made El Museo Reimaginado so special: It seems that Latin American museums are more vigorously pursuing community-based work than institutions elsewhere in the world. There wasn't one.

Museum 40

Museum America South America Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity.

Teen 24

Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Voices That Inspire: Welcoming AAPI Luminaries to Your Stage When planning your AAPI Heritage Month event, consider inviting influential speakers and community leaders from within the Asian American and Pacific Islander community to participate. It’s a wonderful way to include everyone and still work towards your fundraising goals.

Celebrate 59

Celebrate Education Fundraising Culture 59

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?

Museum 45

Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. Giant collaborative tweetups show we like to work together. This work might have seemed easy, but I assure you, being a museum social person is exhausting.

Museum 21

Museum Work Social Media History 21

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?

Question 49

Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I spent today at day 1 of the TechSoup Global Summit in Mountain View with two hundred and forty people who work in the TechSoup Global Network around the world, plus other stakeholders. Her final point was that working as a network is fun! The started with some big picture frames.

Global 96

Global Network Participatory Netsquared 96

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.

Model 98

Model Activities Active Activism 98

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

As we try to raise support for 2015, we wanted to share the impact of your donation from last year, from the voices of our scholarship recipients. Can you give an example of how you applied what you learned from the 14LCS to your daily work? Who did the scholarships go to, and what was the impact of your donation?

Donation 64

Donation Impact Share NTEN 64

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

When should you turn down the invitation to share your voice? How should you make these decisions in an imperfect world where every host is using you for something, and every voice is in danger of being manipulated, misunderstood, or subverted? There are many ways for voices to get chopped and twisted.

Participatory 20

Participatory Museum Voice Press 20

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Assess and Respond to Community Assets and Needs If you want to activate community engagement in your programs, you first need to work together with your communities to determine their diverse needs, assets and interests. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

Museum 49

Museum Program Participatory Community 49

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. Non-Participation 6.

Design 49

Design Participatory Children Museum 49

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. I feared that the event would feel cliquey and wouldn't represent the creative, inclusive spirit of Ze's work.

Reflection 43

Reflection Community Museum Participatory 43

Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2011

As a researcher and activist for participation, I've sometimes downplayed the value of this charm because it seems like arsenal for professionals who claim participatory projects are frivolous. "Be My goal is to eventually be surrounded by the voices of our visitors--funny, sweet, demanding--so they can inspire me all day long.

Museum 47

Museum Participatory Comment Sound 47

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.

Tunisia 104

Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104

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.

Participatory 20

Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20

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). Chris left work that Friday afternoon having noticed the YouTube viewcount on the video suddenly rising. After all, as naysayers of participatory design often remind me, the museum is not a popularity contest.

Case Study 20

Case Study Participatory Studies Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. Whether on blogs or talk-back walls, people are more conscious about their comments when they know their name will be associated with their work. Be personal.

Participatory 20

Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

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.

Public 36

Public Research Participatory Report 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I first met Mary in 2005 through my connection with the Global Voices community and can say that Mary is among the most knowledgeable and experienced digital activists in the world. I’m honored to be working with her on a training project that I’ll share more about in 2011. I’ve been a fan her work since 2006.

Amazon 116

Amazon Nonprofit Social Media Oregon 116

Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

When I worked briefly with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative to conceptualize a mobile phone-based game to connect visitors to the park to its cultural institutions and history, I knew Ken would be the perfect person to make it happen. Lesson: what myths are working for you in your game or participatory project?

Lesson 49

Lesson Game San Diego Design 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

Leaders need to understand that the rise of networks enables us to work together fluidly across space and time, but it also means that the power of hierarchies has declined and the rise of individuals. As she points out, these three steps work together to help executives use engagement to reach their goals.

Digital 50

Digital Strategy Chapter Advice 50

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.

Social Media 50

Social Media Network Data Media 50

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 ). .” Disaster work. Crisis communication strategy. In which formats?

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Social Media Channel Data Media 100