Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

I happened to pop out of reader today and cruise through Marnie Webb's sidebar links from Ma.gnolia to land on an interesting article from Monday's SF Chronicle called " Social Sites Becoming Too Much of A good Thing." I think a much better strategy is to pursue richer, more authentic relationships with constituents."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Freelancers literally put their story ideas and their pitches up on our site, and they say, "This is the story I want to tackle." On Spot.us, we're trying to bring in a culture of transparency in journalism, where we say, "Invite the public into the reporting from day one. It is traditionally very guarded. success stories?

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Interview Fund Report Community 40

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

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Or suppose you were leading a program to educate young people about violent behavior in dating relationships. So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Don't forget to include a link to your web site or blog (if you have one, but wait a minute.see next step). Step 4: Start Blogging!

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

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. It has been championed as a site of courageous experimentation. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Participatory Museum Arts History 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

When you have a group of people working together in a network-culture and are facile with the tools, it can be unstoppable. Building Relationships. She spent an entire decade building relationships with groups all over the world and building a network of organizations to address the issues in the film. It is about sharing.

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

While it has generated a single click from an email to the web (and many more clicks if you check it out), it has not sent me down the road towards a deeper relationship with the content, the exhibition, or the institution. What do you want from the digital component to your next cultural experience? Contextualize the output socially.

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Personal Museum Pledge San Jose 34

ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Before the internet, nonprofit organizations could only establish supportive relationships with the limited number of individuals and organizations in their region. Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival.

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El Paso Community Phoenix Participatory 87

Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

We invite diverse locals to share their creative and cultural talents with our greater community at the museum. Does community participation work for big cultural destinations too? We have the opportunity to build relationships with community members over time. The same is true for cultural participation.

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Community Museum Local Participatory 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

This blog post includes some reflections about my first visit to Africa, the importance of face-to-face meetings and building relationships, and some thoughts about how some of the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit transcend boundaries. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. I don’t teach that way.

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Kenya Network NGO Nonprofit 97

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. sites have lots of power. Me: "Sort of." The power to set the rules of behavior.

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Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2010

For three years, I've been using a "hierarchy of participation" diagram to talk about the ways that cultural institutions and platforms can scaffold social experiences among users. No stage is better than another, and each has something to offer visitors in the context of a cultural institution. Ideas participatory museum.

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