Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

Henry Jenkins , Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and author of Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide and Fans, Bloggers and Gamers: Exploring Participatory Culture. Howard Gardner , the John H. and Elisabeth A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Here’s what I learned from looking over my 2017 professional journal: The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: In 2016, I published “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout ,” with co-author Aliza Sherman. Well Being is about self, others, and organizational culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The post initially caught my eye because there was a quote from Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, co-authors of The Dragonfly Effect (I’m giving away a copy ). I posted a link on FB page and it prompted quite a discussion from nonprofit folks. We’re only four years into the Twitter era, after all.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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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. open to anyone (minimize cultural bias). Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

I will do what I can to ensure the blog continues to present well-written, diverse projects and ideas, both from me and guest authors. The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. But I will not be going to zero. I promise.

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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 this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. In the first edition of this partnership, I interviewed Erin O'Connor Jones , the Director of Candidate Services and Managing Associate at Nonprofit Professionals Advisory Group. Early registration deadline is Nov. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 18, 2023

Most recently, we presented our work on Data Cards at ACM FAccT’22 and open-sourced the Data Cards Playbook , a joint effort with the Technology, AI, Society, and Culture team (TASC). Based on this study, PAIR’s researchers built PromptInfuser , a design tool plugin for authoring LLM-infused mock-ups.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 30, 2014

Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily supported by the James Irvine Foundation. The authors name the reality that one-off programs, exhibits, or shows for specific groups do little to change the mix of participants longterm.

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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. instead of what is?)

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." When the music video was focused on Mexican culture, the researchers found that the white and Asian participants demonstrated a decrease in prejudice against Latinos, both immediately after the activity and six months later.

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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. I know that many people are uncomfortable with the growing culture of self-documentation, but no one should let their own aesthetic preferences dictate others' behavior without good reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Since the theme this year was “Change Making,” I taught a workshop on self-care for change makers based on my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , co-authored with Aliza Sherman. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

government and encouraging participatory democracy. Through their work on the transmedia Half the Sky series, Pulitzer Prize-winning authors Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn have made millions aware of human rights issues in the U.S. E-Line Media plans to continue developing “world games” about other cultures.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Particularly in an age of cultural and political division, Bedoya argues that leaders in the arts need to responsibly and boldly intermediate among many voices, using a combination of ethics and aesthetics to make policy and artistic decisions. If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

author''s desk with brilliant colleagues who inspire me. I wholeheartedly believe it has the power to advance science (and art and cultural heritage) through the power of play. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Nine years ago, I wrote a post called The Future of Authority: Platform Power. This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum. Traditionally, museums and cultural organizations offer programs. This is the participatory platform model. Museums could make the platforms for those experiences.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans. Where are we not putting our energy? Seven: Yeah.

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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. We aren't culturally comfortable giving gifts directly to perfect strangers. Ideas participatory museum.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. It's a discussion of bike and pop culture and socializing the good with these Interweb tools” 10. Across the country, geeks inside and outside of government are developing a new model for a participatory and transparent Federal, State and Municipal governments. But it wasn't here to enterain, no.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. These activities are not always grounds for participatory encounters.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Do you think there is also a cultural/ethnic aspect to the kind of access and design you use? I feel very careful talking about the ways that the particular populations who we choose to work with for social justice reasons are also the people who make our work possible because of cultural expectations. They are authors in the space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Step 8: Understand The Power Remix Culture and User-Generated Content. Create collaborative, student-authored resources.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

If you use Technorati, you can see the authority of each related source, which gives you some idea of how embedded that source is in the larger web community (authority is based on how many other sites link to you). There is a culture on Web 2.0 marketing participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

Instead, Parker encourages all event hosts to adopt a stance of "generous authority." Creating event-specific rules can level the playing field, make the implicit explicit, and create a specific culture for the event. The Art of Gathering expanded my understanding of what it means to build a powerful culture of participation.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

By the standard set by a culture that judges MySpace as dangerous, perhaps these in-person interactions are even MORE dangerous. Use the authority of the museum to facilitate exchange of phone numbers between strangers?" Tags: participatory museum visitors. But are these potential interactions safe?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

I was struck recently by the description of players in an alternate reality game, SF0 , in which people go on cultural “missions” around the Bay Area. Tags: programs participatory museum comfort. When you pursue an unusual goal, you may need to take on an atypical persona. This doesn’t have to mean elf or spy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. We focus on people who are culturally curious, actively creative… but may not see a traditional arts institution as a place for them. culturally curious but maybe not inclined to walk into a museum. They talked about community building.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Jeremy Heimans, co-author with Henry Timms of the best-selling book “New Power,” recently spoke with Blackbaud’s Rachel Hutchisson at bbcon 2018 for a recording of The sgENGAGE Podcast. And if there is now “new power,” then what is “old power” and how do the two differ (and can they work together)?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" welcoming people with more diverse perspectives and backgrounds to participate meaningfully).

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

According to Daren Brabham, crowdsourcing consultant and author of Crowdsourcing: A Model for Leveraging Online Communities , crowdsourcing is the organization of online communities to utilize their combined resources. But participatory cultures on the Internet take on a new quality, a new scale, and new capabilities.”.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

They heavily overrepresent cultural artifacts produced in the Global North. They heavily overrepresent cultural artifacts produced by the wealthy and people who had access early on to digital technologies and the bandwidth to digitize their activities online. The data heavily overrepresent men.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

For funders, nonprofits, and institutions across industries to effectively participate in the global movement to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty, they must first transform internal organizational culture and capacity to advance access, equity, and justice. About the Authors. Disrupt Power Imbalances.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory? But what if the "traditional" arts experiences is a myth?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Dear friends, This is my last post as the author of Museum 2.0. I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. You gave me support as I struggled to lead a museum through a participatory rebirth. Woman reading a book on a beached rowboat, 1925. Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

There was strong interest in the NAS report addressing the specific value and use of museums and libraries as part of the cultural, educational, and civic landscape of the U.S. Retraining staff to be translators and hosts instead of experts and authorities is both technologically and philosophically tricky (and necessary).

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