Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This is a fun meme for user=generated content -- Take a photo of yourself with sign or message related to our campaign or cause. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are! This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared. Not sure if this includes a cash prize.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

Photo by Geoff Livingston. There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. It was a photo booth that took your photo and transformed you in an early human. I’m on vacation this week and next! We spent most of the day at the Smithsonian. There was one exhibit that the kids just loved.

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Candid

JANUARY 22, 2025

Photo credit: Feedback Labs The post Amplify your impact with high-quality listening and feedback: New core principles appeared first on Candid insights. Want to learn more about high-quality listening and feedback? Getting started with the Core Principles of High-Quality Listening and Feedback is easy. Register for the webinar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. Photo by Glenn Hirsch. Photo by Glenn Hirsch. Her final point was that working as a network is fun!

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

full description here , photos from the event here ). We gave people chalk and the choice of four simple prompts: At 3rd Friday I made At 3rd Friday I loved At 3rd Friday I met At 3rd Friday I learned After making a board and taking a photo, each participant had the option to have their photo shared on Flickr or remain private (90% said yes).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

One of the things you have to do with user-generated content -- participatory media projects is show the work to encourage others to jump in. Lacking any programming skills to speak of, I've been looking at widgets and tools that put an easy interface to flickr that let you display photos. I can't figure it out.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The best participatory projects are useful. The participatory activity in question is part of the new Unfinished Business gallery, a room in which the museum engages with a contemporary issue related to the passion and work of Jane Addams and the historic Hull-House activist residents.

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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. In the Networked Nonprofit, Kanter and Fine show nonprofits how to harness this flexibility to pursue their mission in partnership with two billion connected citizens.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns. Looks like the last sentence got left out and wanted to make sure folks were pointed over the excellent article by Colin Delaney on Idealware on Participatory Media Tools which goes in much more detail about more tools and questions for nonprofit to consider.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. For instance, you can change the photo that goes with your article. This list should be with you when you are planning out your content and engagement for your social media channels. Avoid giving it all away in the headlines. Be visual. “If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. Your numerical data can tell stories , but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Each of the speakers had their photo on black and white silk screen in the area outside the main room and participants could leave you notes and comments. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. It was the first time I ever gave a talk on a cat walk stage.

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Candid

AUGUST 20, 2024

There have been innovations with respect to the grantmaking process and decision making, like participatory grantmaking and trust-based philanthropy. Photo credit: Florida Student Power Network The post Building trust-based capital through nonprofit endowments appeared first on Candid insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In Asia, I''ve noticed museum visitors are willing--enthusiastic, even--to take photos with strangers. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere. cultural competency design inclusion participatory museum'

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Another effort, PIVOT, is a partnership between leading organizers and funders to fuel innovations in voter organizing; funders work alongside organizers to shift the power dynamic and make funding decisions through participatory grantmaking. Power building is a marathon, not a sprint Power building doesn’t happen overnight.

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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, Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

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). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Flickr Photo by Geoffrey and used with permission. He made this point: But, participatory culture is changing the nature and topology of ours. I had to go the extra step to email Geoffrey and request permission to republish the photo with attribution. Geoffrey has an excellent collection of photos from the conference here

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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. my photos, my articles, my videos have traveled around the world literally. So, we searched for creative commons licensed photos. " That means I've made it easy to share my work with you and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. The goals need to be front and center through the entire process, particularly when the measurement approach is more new or participatory and is designed to evolve over time. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2008

Photo by Laura Whitehead. Alexandra's slides will be posted on slideshare - but all accounts it was great participatory experience. One of the key benefits of social media is that you can actually be in two places at the same time. I wanted to attend the session by Alexandra Samuel from Social Signal about community building.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Participatory. Participatory. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Are those words you usually associate with your government? We would all likely agree that it's a shame: our government should be transparent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. I was really excited to find her photo contributed to one of my flickr groups! I wonder what lessons or techniques can be learned from her practice that can be applied with the next generation of tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Photo by Mansikka. And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy. What is a #HashTag? A hashtag is this symbol: #. It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter.

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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.” ” Lots of comments pros and cons. . #1:

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. 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.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

To successfully complete their goals, players are asked to use their creativity to solve problems and more importantly, to share their work with others online through blogs, photos and YouTube clips. 3 People Power People Power puts you in the role of a movement leader trying to fight oppression through non-violent revolution.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2011

Last month, I learned about a fabulous, simple participatory experiment called “Case by Case” at the San Diego Museum of Natural History that uses visitor feedback to develop more effective object labels. To date, the solution has been to put photos on the walls, pray for funding, and ignore the front-end evaluation bit.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Photo by CLoé Zarifian, MAH Photo Intern We're working with a guest curator, Wes Modes , on an upcoming experimental project at our museum. This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. This open call project may sound like one that is uniquely suited for participatory input.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Global Voices is the leading participatory media room for voices from developing countries around the globe. I did some volunteer outreach work for global voices to connect with Cambodia bloggers and was an editor for the Cambodia section for a short time before Tharum (in the above photo) took over the job. at Harvard University.

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