Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

(not that this necessarily applies to Oxfam) but its super low budget by using existing infrastructure and orgs of any size could really raise their profile and provide an intense interactive opportunity for supporters this way. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. We did three things to supplement Belle''s paintings (installation shots here , peopled shots here ): We issued a call to locals who are immigrants, or whose family immigrated, to share an artifact and story with us.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. We had some money.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. and sharing opinions (“better in their natural form," “my joyful youth circa 1963”). Or, you could argue that this kind of active engagement should be secondary to sharing information, which can be more efficiently communicated by a label.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. Koch Hall of Human Origins , an immersive, interactive journey through the origins of human beings and the dramatic stories of survival and extinction in the midst of earth’s history of climate change. We spent most of the day at the Smithsonian.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

deation Conference is intentionally formatted to create a rich learning and sharing experience. This workshop was an experiment in the interactive lecture and lots of small groups. Mark Horvath shared how he searches on Twitter for the words "homeless" and either educates or empowers. The description: The !deation

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

When I design and facilitate meeting for clients, board meetings, or as part of a workshop, webinar or other training, I’m always looking for new ideas for facilitation and interactive processes. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’ll be sharing insights on my blog as the project unfolds — it is going to be a rich opportunity for learning because it is a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. Everyone was asked to share five words or “hash tags&# on sticky notes and place them on the wall.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. Examples: WorldChanging: knowledge prodution and sharing. World Data Center for Climate: shared computational cycles. Low barrier to entry. Many channels, both personal and professional. Jon Lebkowsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

Instead, we are sharing them as slides ( original and annotated ) that not only conveys what we’ve found but also serves as a tool for sharing and discussing the conclusions with others. The traditional form for these type of findings would be a whitepaper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” 2: Mobile Usage. #3: 3: Social Networking.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. The more they realize their world is changing, the more they will be energized and hopeful about what is truly possible.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. The more they realize their world is changing, the more they will be energized and hopeful about what is truly possible.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

On June 7th TechSoup representatives Elliot Harmon, Susan Tenby, and Evonne Heyning will present in a unique Interactive Strategy event at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in New Orleans, LA ( NCVS ). Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Connect with us at NCVS or online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Do you have subject matter expertise and do you want to share it during the session? These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Do you have a preferred method?

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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. And yet we’ve learned somethings about human interaction in the last few decades. “ “With social software, there are no foolproof recipes for success.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 19, 2023

We focus on participatory, culturally-inclusive, and intersectional equity-oriented research that brings to the foreground impacted communities. Below, we share examples of our approach to Responsible AI and where we are headed in 2023. Acknowledgements We would like to thank everyone on the team that contributed to this blog post.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In different countries, I''ve noticed broad trends in how people feel most comfortable sharing their voice. For example: American museum visitors often feel comfortable sharing their own opinions/stories/creative expression. Are we ok with that?

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

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. # The most surprising group to create, share and promote original content is middle and high school students. We received some excellent nominations and the voting process was exciting to watch.

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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, primarily focus on using social media tools to create and share compelling multimedia Content.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Furthermore, how can museums and communities work together to share strengths in the community? Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Inviting participation, letting go of control, holding expertise, and sharing power is critical to inclusive practice. The power to define available interactions. On YouTube, you can share videos. With no further ado, enjoy this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. There are stories that people want to share and stories that people want to hear. Gladwell Got It Wrong About Strong and Weak Ties.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Their space is designed for local nonprofits to connect, share ideas and develop solutions together. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

So it seems fitting to share my TEDx talk this week, one that was filmed here in Santa Cruz and which I have since taken around the world. We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today. But they're not there yet.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act. Visitors can share what inspired them in the exhibition and what they plan to do after leaving the museum (similar to the Holocaust Museum's interactive about confronting genocide today ). Supporting a thousand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

While I delivered some content sessions on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn strategy, I also facilitated interactive sessions. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. Here is what they shared: 1.)

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We utilize datamaking as part of shared meaning making. It can contribute to exchanges and interactions that are at the heart of nonprofit network building. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We have seven participatory elements in our current exhibitions on three floors, ranging from voting to talkback walls to an in-depth "make a memory jar" craft activity. and I hope you share them in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

Three things to keep in mind and share with other women who couldn't attend a panel or the conference. The session and moderator guidelines are designed to make the next a very interactive and participatory conference. Some guidelines on how to handle bad participants were shared, but there a lot of positive energy.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

What's the best way to share information about your experiments--what worked and what didn't? I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend).

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

It’s going to be an incredible event, and we’re more than excited to share the agenda with you: How to Get Your First Yes. Brands are participatory, so you create your own brand story at launch, but others define it as you grow. Jess Lee (Sequoia). Once the first domino falls, the rest inevitably follow. Wedge to TAM.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. The sheet gave people a lightweight tool to use in social interaction, to trade and share stamps.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They give high-energy, interactive tours of the Metropolitan Museum and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH). We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. A new company in New York, Museum Hack , is reinventing the museum tour from the outside in.

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