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

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.” ” Widad E.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

The New Metrics of Scholarly Authority by Michael Jensen published in the Chronicle in June, 2007 describes how scholarly authority is being influenced by Web 2.0. I learned years ago that technology doesn't drive change as much as our cultural response to technology does. Quality of author's institutional affiliation(s).

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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. It's a two-parter I've been puzzling over for a long time. I love this question.

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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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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

MARCH 18, 2015

A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. At that time, we expanded to Watsonville , where strawberries come from. We have a few shining, beloved exceptions, but that''s not a significant part of our model at this time. They are authors in the space. It thrives.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

author''s desk with brilliant colleagues who inspire me. We recruited folks and designed software that texted them five times a day for thirty days, asking one question, "Rate your mood 1 (low) to 10 (high)." I wholeheartedly believe it has the power to advance science (and art and cultural heritage) through the power of play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

Attending this press briefing will grant you access to a panel discussion and one-on-one time with some of the greatest minds and most influential s in the fields of technology, digital media, education and learning. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Howard Gardner , the John H. and Elisabeth A.

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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

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. It's a two-parter I've been puzzling over for a long time. I love this question.

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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. At work and at conferences, we're often "saved by the bell" of the clock telling us the time is up.

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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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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. This is what Facebook does.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We had incredible success transforming our institution into a vibrant cultural center. As time has gone on, my attention has shifted from the tactic of participation to the outcome of building community. At the same time, “identity” doesn't always mean demographics. They talked about community building.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

How should you focus your efforts to get the most viewership for your time spent? These services will link you directly to real-time conversations happening about your institution, whether via photos uploaded on Flickr or links on Delicious. There is a culture on Web 2.0 marketing participatory museum.

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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?" We do that with staff all the time. But are these potential interactions safe?

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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 world, reading and commenting on blogs, it's time to start blogging. It takes time to visit those sites and find what you want to read!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. I think of 3six5 as a coffee table book that is being written one day at a time. Could your institution make the change?

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

We’re going to save some time at the end for Q&A. Steven: I’ve heard that you know, every time I talk to someone in the Bay Area it’s always foggy. But I don’t know how you make time for webinars, Renee, because you’re doing all these other things. We don’t have the time about 16%.

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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

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. It''s the first report in a long time that I am sharing with my board. They take time, curiosity, respect and the willingness to be changed by the relationship.

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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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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 we tell a story in the book of a video game called Star Citizen and it’s really an allegory for our time.

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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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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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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 think about the commitments I made to myself, to it, and to you--and how those changed over time. I blogged three times a week. I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book.

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

I introduce these notes with three general observations: Some leaders are more radical than I hoped, and these people have a hard time advocating for change when their accountability is to those who have not changed. Of course, there’s a less legal question here, one about authority and control.

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