Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century."

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." which heralded a new, participatory web culture. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 Most of the content was (and is) user generated.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. While we may grudgingly acknowledge the fact that visitors create their own versions of the message around subsets of the content, we don't consciously empower visitors to redistribute their own substandard, non-authoritative messages. Content expertise matters.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

Visitors may make inappropriate gestures in photos with museum content, thus distorting institutional values and intent. To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. Content expertise matters. Content control shouldn't. But if our expertise is real, then we don't need to rule content messages with an iron fist. Power is attractive.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning.

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