Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. How well does the tool support the organic growth of the community? Still, I got a lot of great feedback for the next remix of this game. Open Source Feminism - Click to Play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. We had some rich learnings in the reflection of what happened in the group. Self-organizing is difficult without communication.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

For those organizations/networks looking to select tools to support their work, there needs to be some exploratory, hands-on experience. We created a network of fans who are remixing our context and spreading our message, how do we guide them effectively without controlling them? How can we activate the activsts in the real world? (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. The papers points out the benefits of these forms of participatory culture, including peer-to-peer learning, changed attitude toward intellectual property, skills valued in the modern workplace, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

is an attitude , not a download. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun. We need to support the organizations that are writing it in figuring out how to cover their costs.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change. From my perspective the line wasn’t between libraries and museums but public-facing and private/researcher-facing organizations. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t think about the future.

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