Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. A website can fail softly, however there's no avoiding the awkwardness if we open a gallery and have nothing on the walls for several months. We can change the way the website functions or add elements as we need them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Patient advocates play a critical role in setting research priorities, designing clinical trials and structuring appropriate clinical engagement with industry. I learned a new word: “ Cybercondria ” or the unfounded anxiety concerning the state of one’s health brought on by visiting health and medical websites.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video. The website for the stories is beautiful. So what did you do next?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The most popular and relevant resolutions were grouped into four areas-- empowering supporters, using social media networks, focusing on the needs of supporters and making websites user-friendly. Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

While the talk may encompass serious topics, the attitude is light and the conversation is not structured or overly guided. In contrast, cultural institutions often implicitly discourage conversation, particularly loud and boisterous talk, and when conversation is encouraged it is often highly structured around a particular topic or program.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The most popular and relevant resolutions were grouped into four areas-- empowering supporters, using social media networks, focusing on the needs of supporters and making websites user-friendly. Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible. The project's implementation keeps changing, and I can't decide whether it is getting better or just different.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video. The website for the stories is beautiful. So what did you do next?

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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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. I think there are three reasons for this.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. The reward for participants of having your contribution displayed is fairly and clearly structured.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Attract more attendees with a sweet Best Conference badge for your website - just email us! Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Did your event make the list?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Blogs are just websites that are easy to update. Photo sharing websites have been around for over a decade, but Flickr was one of the first photo sharing services to use keyword tags to encourage connections between photos and users. In most cases simple syntax structure is used. Step 4: Start Blogging! s new - diary metaphor.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

While we had a decade to adjust to websites being important, we’ve had a lot less time to figure out social media, and even less time to adopt a mobile first world. It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” Growth hacking is more of a mindset of experimentation than tactics and techniques.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

I first learned about this technique from Sam Kaner''s excellent book, Facilitator''s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. To me, this is analogous to the benefits of having multiple staff members engaged with community partners on participatory projects. In 2014, it was a rapid-fire research project, documented on a website.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So if that is of interest to you, maybe you’re thinking of switching software or you’re just kind of curious about us, check out our website, all kinds of videos and stuff you can watch and, you know, we’d love for you to learn more. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Websites are popping up that provide forums for anonymous employee accounts of what is really going on inside businesses and how leaders are perceived. Once gained, it is jealously guarded, and the powerful have a substantial store of it to spend. It downloads, and it captures.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

I was struck by how this is partly interactive, but within a structured, linear narrative. How did you make decisions about how to structure the story? No website can deliver that kind of sustained attention. The Innocence Project is a tremendously participatory project, with hundreds of volunteers around the country.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The artist, Sue Lawty, maintains a blog with her reflections on the project and occasionally celebrates particular contributions, but this blog is fairly contained within the project website and is not a major source of web links. Visitors to the website can't even comment on the photos or mark them as favorites. The ask is clear.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Much to my mom's relief, I stayed in school but remained deeply suspicious of the artificial structure of grades and gold stars. When I first explored the ILI website, I assumed that free-choice learning was the backbone of all museums. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design.

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