Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The Second C: Collaboration. Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral.

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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. Kids frequently suffer from tokenism.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. The host venue was a living, breathing example of how museums can serve as community catalysts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Last night I had the pleasure of joining a conversation with WOW2 over at edtech. We talked about Cambodia and one of the questions was (an excellent one), what do teachers need to think about if they are doing an over the web collaborative project with a classroom in the developing world.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. To me, this is an example of how the aggregation of participatory practices fundamentally changes the role that an organization has in its community.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? For example, here is a storify of the tweets from our track.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

For example, when we held community meetings about the development of a new creative town square next to our museum, a group of middle/upper-class moms talked about not feeling safe downtown. Bridged groups are useful if you want people to collaborate on a more inclusive vision of the future. to get the conversation started.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. It reveals unconscious associations, for example, between skin color and criminality, or weight and intelligence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

today, I took a break from working on something else and decided to summarize a bunch of conversation threads on social media, social media burn out, listening, second wave adoption, and participatory nonprofits that are flying around me so I could begin to make sense. m doing at the moment (hardly a cutting edge example).

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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. But every time a museum social account responded to another museum we saw this form of collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. The type of conversation you have with your peers about your work that you can only have face-to-face. A definition of screencasting, with real examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. In this approach, the Brainerd Foundation would focus on fostering sharing and innovation by thinking differently, funding differently, collaborating with other funders differently, and sharing differently—all starting tomorrow.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

It opens up new conversations about the work of art in our communities. For example, right now, Temple Contemporary's offices are packed floor to ceiling with broken musical instruments from classrooms across the city of Philadelphia. Leave the process to the collaborators and give the product to the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Guide your students to conversations and resources.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking. If not, it says “let’s get started.”

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. And while I’ve been exploring venues , situations , and apparel that serve as social objects, I’ve found few examples of explicitly designed social objects.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

We started our conversation by David explaining what Spot.us The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. I often say that, "Collaboration is queen."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Interest in the collaborative writing process. Check out the other parts here. What did they do? Why did they do it?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. The NTC brings together the best and brightest nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness with technology. Governance / @usdsoles.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

And so I, you know, want to hear from you because I know that whatever is on your mind, you’re able to add to the conversation. But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning. Everything about my approach is about the wisdom in the room. Where are we not putting our energy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

As I listened to her speak about their experience, I knew this would be a terrific case study to share in Beirut as an example of working in a networked way. Annie was kind enough to give me her notes so I could write this case study and hopefully, I’ve captured it correctly. It is a collaborative way of working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. If I didn't have a guided experience on information island and the benefit of conversations with so many educators engaged in exploring it for learning, I might be blogging naive remarks like this too. way to the future? That enriches the experience.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. That said, our process and goals may be useful examples for others. PARTICIPATORY : Invites diverse community members to make meaningful contributions as co-creators, collaborators, and energized constituents.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. Are you asking your collaborators to solve your problems or to help tease them out in new ways?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2012

This is a tiny example of social bridging--people making connections to others who are not like them, who have different backgrounds, ages, races, professions, etc. It could have been the attitude of the museum that supports participation and conversation. Next time, everyone was talking. I don't know what made it happen.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

The key is to get all the information you need to deploy a multichannel conversion strategy, with a focus on converting online leads into monthly donors over the phone. Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate With Your Community - You can design online engagement to unleash your evangelists. “But what do you actually do?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For causes, this can range from increasing conversion rates by testing simple design tweaks, to nailing rapid response and raising $24M in a weekend. It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” Radical Collaboration. Growth hacking is more of a mindset of experimentation than tactics and techniques. “Old

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Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

In addition to representing Candid, I was there to learn about trends in the European philanthropic sector and explore opportunities for collaboration. The conversation also focused on vaccination, the global collaborative process, and philanthropy’s response. New funding models: spotlight on participatory grantmaking.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

Our primary goal for pop up museums is to bring people together in conversation through stories, art, history, and objects. We choose themes and venues in collaboration with a community partner. When popping up in non-traditional exhibitory spaces, you cannot only prompt unexpected conversation, but also unite location and theme.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments and add your own voice to the debate. The ideal of third places, that attracts we cultural heritage types, is a democratic space where civic life is built collaboratively and at a personal level. Oldenburg says that third places are democratic spaces, but his examples belie it.

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