Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

We have give gratitude and thanks and build ongoing relationships. If you tweeted with the hashtag #IGiveBecause – you received a $20 gift card to donate to the charity of your choice on their site. We can’t treat donors like ATM machines, only asking for money. But let me reflect on how amazing yesterday was.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

The 96Elephants website is a dramatic educational site created by the Wildlife Conservation Society, which runs the zoos and aquaria in NYC. The site provides a powerful statement about the slaughter of elephants in Africa, supported with rich media and educational text. We want our donors to be advocates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. Several participants reflected on how it is easy to fall into that trap and looked at beginning to schedule more time with people to build relationships that give them inspiration and energy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

The goal of VRM is to improve the relationship between Demand and Supply by providing new and better ways for the former to relate to the latter. The idea is appealing - but its actual application still seems quite hazy. starts to point toward the more collaborative environments that are being termed "social media" these days.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. Formerly avoided as a fount for litigation, apologies have now been shown to lead to less litigation and more positive doctor-patient trust relationships.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

Over the next several weeks, I will be dedicating posts to these questions, and most specifically, to some of the HOWs of making museums sites of civic discourse. When I think of the times I have experienced civic discourse in a positive way, it was because of a personal relationship built through a common interest.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. Why does Ebay email you a certificate to celebrate "your first positive feedback" on their site?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

For decades, this has been the reality of their lives, and they strongly believe that the Western world and its citizens have a similarly controlling relationship between individuals and government.” ” It also brings up issues about the r ole of social media and a connected society for delicate diplomacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

There is a lot of text on the site (this should be changing soon ), but this snippet says it best: Net?? is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. This site, and the Net?? What is it?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences. They kept the interface simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

I happened to pop out of reader today and cruise through Marnie Webb's sidebar links from Ma.gnolia to land on an interesting article from Monday's SF Chronicle called " Social Sites Becoming Too Much of A good Thing." I think a much better strategy is to pursue richer, more authentic relationships with constituents."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! learning to enter open, personal relationships with participants. So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution.

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

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. One more note on the wiki: while it was a community site, I felt very in control of the content. of the words on the wiki.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

This week, I'm launching a new site: the Voicemail Museum. To learn more about the relationship between feedback format and quantity/quality of input. Tags: participatory museum usercontent. Call 641.715.3900 ext. 60138, listen to the recorded question, and leave a message with your response.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

And the site I Like Museums lets you find whole institutions of interest based on your preference for trails like "making things," "nice cup of tea," or simply "pigs." The more you use it, the better it gets--and that symbiotic relationship serves customer and vendor alike. But they aren't just fun ways to express yourself.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

Freelancers literally put their story ideas and their pitches up on our site, and they say, "This is the story I want to tackle." The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. If you start with an event, you may grow the relationship from one-off to a deeper connection with the group. Projects participatory museum. as physical analogs to virtual community platforms.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

--Elaine Heumann Gurian, The Importance of "And" Recently, I''ve been embroiled in local and national conversations about the relationship between active participation and quiet contemplation in museums. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. Staffing: We have 2.25

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Or suppose you were leading a program to educate young people about violent behavior in dating relationships. So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Don't forget to include a link to your web site or blog (if you have one, but wait a minute.see next step). Step 4: Start Blogging!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. We wanted goals that are specific to our organization while applicable across it (archives, exhibitions, historic sites, events, fundraising, school tours, online). Excessive bonding can lead to cliques and exclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Building Relationships. She spent an entire decade building relationships with groups all over the world and building a network of organizations to address the issues in the film. She spent an entire decade building relationships with groups all over the world and building a network of organizations to address the issues in the film.

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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. It's been my bible for community and relationship building.

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Library Social Media Louisville Media 94

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Jyri argues that social networks that succeed are based around objects, not relationships. The roles are fluid and can be redefined each time you have an interaction on the site. Gifting is a powerful participatory behavior. sites work this way, and museums are (hopefully) far from it. participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. sites have lots of power. When you go onto a user-generated content site like YouTube, you don't just see a jumble of videos. Me: "Sort of." Every Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

While it has generated a single click from an email to the web (and many more clicks if you check it out), it has not sent me down the road towards a deeper relationship with the content, the exhibition, or the institution. I will not be coming back to it for more in the future. Contextualize the output with more content.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

I whole-heartedly support the goals that motivate the hire--to connect with visitors online and onsite in more meaningful relationships--but I worry about focusing such a broad mandate into the tiny point of a single individual. This is a valid concern, especially on social sites that are not tightly aggregated. This is a problem.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Before the internet, nonprofit organizations could only establish supportive relationships with the limited number of individuals and organizations in their region. Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2016

We have the opportunity to build relationships with community members over time. It's reasonable to focus your marketing and programming on participation onsite at your institution or at sites within your city. LOCAL: If your visitors can come in often, you can build relationships with people over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

This blog post includes some reflections about my first visit to Africa, the importance of face-to-face meetings and building relationships, and some thoughts about how some of the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit transcend boundaries. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. I don’t teach that way.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. sites have lots of power. Me: "Sort of." The power to set the rules of behavior.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2010

By introducing individuals through the content they love, hate, or have a personal connection to, you motivate relationship-building around the objects and stories on display. Consider Flickr, the photo-sharing community site. Ideas participatory museum. What do unfacilitated me-to-we experiences look like?

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