Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2006

This is an excellent analysis of the issue of corporate control and ownership of your participatory media. While paying lip service to the democratic, free sharing of information, then, services like YouTube. any media formats and through any media channels. Likewise, sites such as MySpace gather information on their users.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

David Wilcox and I are getting ready for iterations on Social by Social - the first two being applications of the lessons learned and strategies for using social media shared in Social by Social ( read online or download the PDF for free, or buy your hardcopy ) in local communities and the same for local government. of other projects.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

Free Resource Tips for Stewarding Responsively 3 Ways to Redefine Risk and Build Stronger Relationships with Your Grantees Download Now 3. There are several benefits to adding participatory grantmaking to your funding programs. Participatory grantmaking does require a mindset shift.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship. These interns work with our curatorial team to develop interactive and participatory components for upcoming exhibitions. Exciting, right?

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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. Tags: participatory museum Quick Hits.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

Our special collections offer deep dives on topics like democracy , climate change , participatory grantmaking , and more. To add a report, case study, survey, or toolkit to Issue Lab, check our collection policy and sign up for a free account. You can help strengthen the sectors collective knowledge and impact.

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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. There was one wiki content reviewer who wrote back surprised that she wasn't getting a free book, and I sent one to her.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Organizations like Quill.org use AI-powered tools to provide personalized, free writing instruction for K-12 students, which is particularly beneficial for schools with high student-teacher ratios. Why AI adoption matters for equity AI has the potential to act as an equalizer for underserved and under-resourced communities.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. available for free at your library and on the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Just got this from David Bacon, founder of Carpets for Communities Hi Everyone, Help us free children in Cambodia from exploitation by taking 2 minutes to vote. The $5,000 prize money (and more importantly world-wide exposure) will all go towards freeing children from exploitation and getting them back to school in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. Incorporating the use of a location-based social networks seems a natural for museums, given the move towards more participatory institutions and how museums have embraced mobile.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. Both of these things have lead me to think a lot about this topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

I spoke about free agent fundraisers and the networked nonprofit. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. Many passionate people and stories. . The main room had a cat walk because of a fashion show from Jedidiah USA later in the evening. My slides are here.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. There also needs to be a free flow of ideas in safe, nonjudgmental environments. There is no benefit to discounting any individual or group from participating in the planning process. Focused but not constrained.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The Wikimedia Foundation ambitiously envisions a “world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” Gardner admitted that at certain points the non-linear and emergent collaborative planning process was ambiguous and frustrating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2005

Via the 501-C3 Tech Club for Boston list, the Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA) has announced a new. website for listing free and open-source software coding. bounties: [link].

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! 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).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

You can now read all the chapters in The Art of Relevance for free online. Why make the book available for free under a Creative Commons license? When I wrote my first book, The Participatory Museum , I released it concurrently as a paperback and free online. Free previews are powerful. Free previews are powerful.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. WebEx and GoToMeeting , available through TechSoup, offer free iPad apps and easy availability on mobile devices. Skype — Offering an easy way to talk to anyone with an Internet connection for free, Skype.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2005

I, Lucy Hooberman, will mentor a minimum of two people in the developing world in the area of my skills base and expertise (media, communications, broadcasting , democratic media building, participatory media, community video). I will do this for free for a minimum of six months (in my free time).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The book is available on Amazon or as a free download. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. I first met Mary in 2005 through my connection with the Global Voices community and can say that Mary is among the most knowledgeable and experienced digital activists in the world. You can pick up a copy here.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Participatory. Participatory. Will it be problem free? Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Are those words you usually associate with your government? Now let's think about our sector. . Transparent. Collaborative.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Design to Invite Active Participation Participatory design can be one of the most effective vehicles for developing relationships, building social capital and engaging with community members in museum programs. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Over 20,000 copies have been sold around the world.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When Clubhouse was launched in its alpha form last year, it was discussed as being a new form of participatory media “that would change everything,” d’Sa said, and he wanted something like that for his work colleagues. “So much about becoming friends at work underpins how you ultimately collaborate.”. That’s how LiveKit was born.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! 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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

I am the director of a non-profit that promotes open museum practices, and we are in midst of launching a free service for arts organizations: a web site that permits any museum to create a participatory exhibit space and social network centered on the museum's collections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. As an activist and evangelist for creative commons ' values and tools, I want to play a major role in helping to ensure that our culture remains as free and accessible as possible.

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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, Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. The First C: Content.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

A museum holds a free program in a semi-public space. We held a free yoga class in the plaza outside the museum and invited artists to come and draw/paint the yoga-doers in motion. For me, Downward Draw provided an unusual opportunity to examine the more casual end of the participatory spectrum. Ready for a math problem?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

" But even more impressive was Lucy Hooberman's pledge: "I will mentor a minimum of two people in the developing world in the area of my skills base and expertise (media, communications, broadcasting , democratic media building, participatory media, community video).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The app will become available for free download on iOS and Android. As before, it remains free to accept and reuse BerkShares, encouraging local circulation of currency. The user experience of the BerkShares app will resemble those of mobile payment services such as Venmo.

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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. Non-Participation 6.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

This frees up your to-do list—and brain space—to focus on important tasks that improve your grantee experience. Free Resource 3 Ways Dashboards Help Grantmakers Make Sense of Their Data Download Now 4. Are you looking at incorporating more participatory grantmaking principles?

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2014

We’ll also be auctioning off a free On Demand Tactical Tech Planning training course from Idealware (a $475 value). Our lounge at NTC will be free and open to everyone during all three days. We’ll be at Booth #625 during the Science Fair. Hear Our CEO Speak on Technology and Big Ideas for Change.

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