Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” Amy shared an awesome list of mobile resources.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

This is a cultural shift that involves everyone; nonprofit leaders and staff, board members, volunteers, donors, foundation leaders, members of the public and others. According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. Like other museums, Elsewhere is an interpretive space, constructed to secure and invest in cultural meaning, cultural objects, and creative expression.

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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

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Reason #258 I'm glad to live in California: Cultural Connections. Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up a few times a year and host excellent programs on a variety of topics. I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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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. Theres no awareness. The data heavily overrepresent men.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. New audiences may not be aware that there are other people who see dance performances or jazz shows or science exhibits as part of their everyday lives.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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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 a discussion of bike and pop culture and socializing the good with these Interweb tools” 10.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. This focus on constant improvement—whether through collaboration, simplification, awareness, or accessibility—is part of how we try to help our clients move their missions forward.

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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. For example, kids and tools.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2015

Before last summer’s #IceBucketChallenge, awareness for ALS was relatively limited to families and friends of those affected. Instead, focus on creating a culture that embraces millennials and engages with constituents on their terms. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It is made by many.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

At level four, the visitor has some awareness of how other distinct visitors respond to the issue and can access their comments and opinions. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum interactives. At level two, the visitor has some interactive experience (pushing buttons, etc.) with the issue. Why do you oppose flag-burning?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

A female attendee, Courtney Remes, wrote about the experience and the managers of the Geek Girls Guide blog posted her comments along with a comprehensive call to action to encourage people to write to the event organizers and generally raise awareness about the issue.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

With this clarity of purpose, the nonprofit can focus on its culture. This is where participatory practice comes in to play. Once we have built a culture that is connected and engaged, nonprofit leadership is primed to use the insights of this culture to build a strategic plan that everyone is invested in.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 20, 2023

Technical Program Manager, Head of Societal Context Understanding Tools and Solutions (SCOUTS), Google Research AI-related products and technologies are constructed and deployed in a societal context : that is, a dynamic and complex collection of social, cultural, historical, political and economic circumstances. Posted by Donald Martin, Jr.,

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. These innovative tools are meeting the fundraising, grassroots mobilization, volunteer engagement, and issue awareness needs of many organizations." TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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