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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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

sites form my understanding of what the Exploratorium is. How does it help the Exploratorium to listen to these environments if they can't be controlled? When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. Is it safer to engage with strangers in this faux-exclusive environment? Or is it the stalkers?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. These third-party applications provide a ready-made environment for comment cards to become more useful and usable to visitors and staff alike. It may be useful if you want to ask "What kind of teen programs should our museum offer?"

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

Teens advocating for all-gender bathrooms. It's reasonable to focus your marketing and programming on participation onsite at your institution or at sites within your city. You can invest in building relationships on your site and theirs. Printmakers leading workshops. Volunteers restoring a historic cemetery. You get the idea.

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