Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Here’s what he said about the Networked Nonprofit: “The Internet means never having to ask permission before trying something new. Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. “Start small.

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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. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet. ” Widad E.

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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. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool.

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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 Here’s one from the early 1990’s when nonprofits were first adopting email and other Internet tools.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

While it would not be as "raw" as initially envisioned, urging as many agencies as possible to produce actual queryable APIs with the data would have made more possibilities for truly creative visualizations and allowed new participatory applications to be built. Demonstration Projects. Open Standards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We talked about Cambodia and one of the questions was (an excellent one), what do teachers need to think about if they are doing an over the web collaborative project with a classroom in the developing world. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

The center of the VRM hub-bub seems to be Project VRM at Harvards' Berkman Center for Internet and Society. The idea is appealing - but its actual application still seems quite hazy. Their wiki states that CRM systems until now have borne the full burden of relating with customers. We are all both customers and vendors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

Save the Internet | Rock the Vote. The project wiki is here and he has a del.icio.us I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox. Additional Resources: Save the Internet. Article in TechSoup by Henry Kumagai " What Will Tiered Internet Access Mean for NPOs.

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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. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The call was from Mercedes Martinez and Zachary Kent, the people behind an internet radio show called Dial-A-Stranger. I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. What would you do with this kind of project?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. I started in the Cornell University Center for Theatre Arts , where I founded and directed two programs: Cornell Theatre Outreach and the Community-Based Arts Project.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC. We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

The paper "remembers" the location of pen marks on the pledge section, so visitors' handwritten promises are quickly and magically projected on a digital projection wall in front of the pledge kiosks. The handwritten pledge is an intelligent starting point for creating merged digital/analog participatory experiences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

is a nonprofit project pioneering “community funded reporting.” The big advent of freelancing, since the Internet, is that instead of snail-mailing my story ideas to editors, I would email them. And that's like the great thing that the Internet brought me was email! --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us Yes, definitely.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. Take a look at the Horizon project for some excellent examples of this. Here's an example from a class project the New School. Hiring people. The power of Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

s a graphical layer that has the potential to link together many of the 2D media that we currently access via the Internet. broadcaster VRML world projects in 96 called the Mirror (BT, BBC and others). principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. I think to say that things will stay this way is far.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

But the eyes were just the beginning of a major theatrical and experimental project called Ghosts of a Chance. But comments on the gamers' forum like: An internet collaborative [sic] art display in a national museum? Projects usercontent game. To experiment with the web as a medium for extension of onsite experiences.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

" The internet: is it changing the way we think? Technology | The Observer – "American writer Nicholas Carr's claim that the internet is not only shaping our lives but physically altering our brains has sparked a lively and ongoing debate, says John Naughton. ." That’s how you learn organizing."

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy that aims “to expand people’s power to make government decisions.” It’s time for nonprofits and foundations to upgrade our digital decision-making tools.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

Oh, and they wanted it to be participatory. I talked with Sarah Rich , one of the project’s instigators and staff members, to learn more about 48 Hour Magazine and its implications for other participatory media projects. You had a huge response to this project. The Internet is obviously a key tool for organizing.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 18, 2019

According to Crowd 101 , once a crowdfunding campaign reaches about 40% of its target goal, people are 31% more likely to show additional interest in the project and 22% more likely to donate more to your cause. When it comes to crowdfunding campaigns, development teams are often unaware of the big picture involved in their projects.

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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. Enter the internet. While IdeaScale could be used as a standalone kiosk or a link from the website, but probably is better for specific, targeted projects than as an entire comment card solution.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Thankfully, the age of internet has come to our rescue through “crowdsourcing,” helping nonprofit organizations get by with a little help from their friends. Before the internet, nonprofit organizations could only establish supportive relationships with the limited number of individuals and organizations in their region.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2009

I used to believe this, but recently, I've started to wonder if the message that these projects are "for everyone" undercuts our ability to serve the relatively few people who will actually contribute. And yet ironically, we spend most of our time with participatory projects accentuating how open they are. Let me explain.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

Thanks to Kate and the team at Minnesota Historical Society for the fabulous photos from the project, which are sprinkled liberally through this interview. How did this project get started? We didn’t go beyond the internet to do our checks. Thank you to Kate and all the courageous Minnesotans who took on this project!

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