Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. The organization invited anyone, including these volunteers and its millions of readers, to help develop the plan. ” Paul Connolly.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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Participatory Teen Experiment Museum 24

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Regardless of how museums and libraries portray themselves, it’s clear to users: Wikipedia belongs to them. Dear Museum 2.0-ers,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. Fundraising presentations. For teaching and learning.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Net Tuesdays became a series of national and international face-to-face meetings connecting industry and nonprofit techies. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. The Iraq War was raging. Podcasting.

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Netsquared Wikipedia Social Network Web 52

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? Of course, there’s a less legal question here, one about authority and control.

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