Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. The E-Mediat Implementation Partners at SF Planning Meeting.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

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. Techies knew about the project first and were most likely to sign up for early dates on the calendar.)

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Participatory Project Museum Journal 34

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. Storytelling Project is an experiment in collecting community feedback.

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Story Data Analysis Measure 124

Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Issue Resource New Mexico Mexico 97

Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. Foot in the Door is a straightforward contributory project. The size constraint makes it easy to show lots of work and reinforces the egalitarian vibe of the project.

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Participatory Museum Arts Artist 46

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. This is very cool. Uck.They still don’t get it.

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Open Source Vlog License PowerPoint 100

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. Evaluating a Culture. Trust-Based Philanthropy Project. Cultural Organizing Needed for Equity: A Framework of Belonging. Here are 6 ways it could go.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This post takes a quick look at the the Voters project as a tagging project to glean some learnings. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard." The next step, of course, is to throw in a little remix and participatory media culture into it!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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Participatory Practice Fundraising Relationship 39

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

.” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. Dearth of resources/cultural practices around curriculum sharing.

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Global Network Change Create 93

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. The Great Sunflower Project: sign up, they send you seeds and you send in data about those feeding off the flowers. Rob Reed - Max Gladwell.

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Social Media Media Social Green 100

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Now, after long last, the book is here!

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Participatory Museum Vietnam Netherlands 30

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). Yes and no.

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Question Participatory Museum Vietnam 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. In the Networked Nonprofit, Kanter and Fine show nonprofits how to harness this flexibility to pursue their mission in partnership with two billion connected citizens.&#. “Start small.

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Participatory Lesson Social Media Chapter 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Note From Beth: Yesterday, I attended a convening called “ Beyond Dynamic Adaptability ” for arts organizations about cultural participation in the arts. With a project like Granito, the film is only the beginning and serves as an invitation for everyone to share their story.

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Guatemala Movie Artist Award 94

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

There are many curator and museum director voices in the article, but not a single quote from a visitor who engaged in one of these community projects. I meet them doing research in the archives, collaborating on cultural festivals, and contributing stories to exhibitions. What is the metaphor for participatory arts? The circus?

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Journal Participatory Museum Community 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 Tags: Networked Nonprofit Organizational Culture. I’m often asked for practical advice on how to move past the fear. Opening up [.].

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Social Media Network Media Social 100

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

The word "quality" is often code for aesthetic quality, as judged by a specific set of cultural expectations and preferences. PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? High participatory quality, low technical quality. Define what quality means for your goals, for your project, for your institution.

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Participatory Museum Arts Culture 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

The workshop topics included trends in digital media consumption, social media, engagement on mobile devices and a variety of community foundation projects funded by the Knight Community Information Challenge. Mobile Organizational Culture social media policy Training Design' Digital Trends.

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Social Media Digital Mobile Trend 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

I've been reading Henry Jenkin's book, Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide" - I ordered after I heard him speak at the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning briefing (Nancy Schwartz recently wrote about it here ) and read his white paper on participatory culture.

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Social Network Network Guide Participatory 50

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? The Machine Project and the Hammer Museum have just released an incredible ebook documenting Machine's year-long residency at the Hammer in 2010. And the projects themselves are brilliant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 105

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). Yes and no.

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Museum Question Participatory Vietnam 45

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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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really. I think that the culture barrier is a really big deal, especially when it comes to dealing with very technical issues. But it needs addressing. {

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Open Source Open Music Software 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet. I remember her community of clocks project -- she facilitated content creation from schools around the world on the theme of clocks. These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media.

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Flickr Professional Participatory New York 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The other three are cultural, and I'm not sure how accurate they are.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Our strategy has relied upon being part of a larger mission, providing meaningful and valuable content, curating information and content for the community, using a legal framework that allows for a participatory culture and lastly, in time, providing a space for the community to assist in the mission by creating content themselves.

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India Skype Strategy Remix 99

NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

5 Macon Money Macon Money is an innovative project that aimed to unite social, racial, cultural, gender, and economic gaps - all while boosting the local economy! On the last day of the year, we posted the results and I'm happy to share with you just why these were our community's favorite games. # Everyone wins!

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Game Impact Libya Social 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

” I create a few pages in the beginning to write about my themes, what makes me happy, what to improve, and major projects for the year. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change.

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Story Data Analysis Structure 74

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We need translators within each cultural context. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. But we do have ''and.'' Staffing: We have 2.25

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53

Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Museums have been grappling with this question for years ( here's a 2007 roundup of such projects ), most aggressively in zoos and natural history museums where staff hope to inspire conservation and in history/concept museums that focus on civic engagement and activism. No small task for a museum exhibition.

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Story Participatory Museum History 47

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. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" but I didn't have numbers to back it up. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Audience Participatory Museum History 47

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. Roger Hart of Cornell ( 1992 paper ).

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Design Participatory Children Museum 49

Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. From day 1, I believed that we needed to focus in our first year on creating new participatory events to engage the community.

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Museum Director Participatory Culture 55