Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

Participatory and interactive. Tags: events event london m4change mobile. An exploration of mobile technology to advance social development and social change goals. Is open to anyone with passion and interest in the topic. Daniel Applequist, Vodafone and Mobile Monday London. Katrin Verclas, MobileActive.org. Participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

They've incorporated an interactive component, called Gallery Tag where visitors select a tag or create their own, go find works in the galleries that match, enter accession numbers and earn points and prizes. (For Tags: location. Location-based social networks also offer opportunities for the performing arts and theatre.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. Are you working on a community-driven project or looking to start one?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. Tags: Engagement smithsonian. My kids, who had been introduced to the Smithsonian through the popular movie “Night at the Smithsonian&# were excited too. We spent most of the day at the Smithsonian. At the Natural History Museum, we visited the David H.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2025

Responsible AI adoption Framework in Philanthropy: An Initial Framework for Grantmakers by the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG). Our special collections offer deep dives on topics like democracy , climate change , participatory grantmaking , and more. You can help strengthen the sectors collective knowledge and impact.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Tags: participatory museum Quick Hits.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist? Tags: events 11ntc conference event nten proposals sessions voting. This session will include a presentation, discussion and small group scenarios.

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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. Museums and traditional institutions are not typically set up to manage participatory projects at such a high level of detail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Technorati Tags: VECoP Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio. Summary and related links from the visit Henry Jenkins made to SL, along. with audio archive of session can be found here.

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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. I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video. And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Several said things like, "I was curious to see how this kind of participatory, collaborative approach would work in practice."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design? Tags: change management. What's out there in the darkness that might catch us off guard? The way to get past fear of uncertainty is to deconstruct it. My colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Everyone was asked to share five words or “hash tags&# on sticky notes and place them on the wall. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Tags: climatechange energy sxsw events. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Low barrier to entry. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. Jon Lebkowsky.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

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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. Tags: Books. 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 24, 2005

Via the 501-C3 Tech Club for Boston list, the Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA) has announced a new. Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 website for listing free and open-source software coding. bounties: [link].

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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? Is it a problem or a great starting point to focus on participatory experiences with teens?

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Anyone who uses the designated tag on Twitter automatically becomes a part of the ongoing global conversation on that topic of interest. We think Watchitoo. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 30, 2007

Expo: Data on Participatory Web: "Tagging has become a mainstream acitivity in blogging, according to Sifry - 230 Million tags over two years, with 37% of blog posts using author tags."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2005

I, Lucy Hooberman, will mentor a minimum of two people in the developing world in the area of my skills base and expertise (media, communications, broadcasting , democratic media building, participatory media, community video). Technorati Tags: nptech , net2 I will do this for free for a minimum of six months (in my free time).

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Participatory. Participatory. Tags: alissa black Collaboration Data dimitry kachaev Leadership noel hidago Open Source Policy sxswi transparency. Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Now let's think about our sector. .

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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, Tags: ROI. Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2009

It lays out some ambitious steps for executive departments and agencies to take over the relatively near-term to be more transparent, participatory, and accountable, such as: Tags: Influence Data & Visualizations. The Obama Administration released the long anticipated Open Government Directive on Tuesday.

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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 Tags: Networked Nonprofit Organizational Culture. I’m often asked for practical advice on how to move past the fear. Opening up [.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. Tags: FLIP. Steve's book is due out in December, 2009, and while it doesn't focus exclusively on nonprofits (or one camera), judging from the sneak peek at the draft - it's a must read. Editing Software. And, all I can say is WOW.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Key is a participatory development process. Institute for Strategic Clarity, March 15 Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, Tags: maps movement building netaction network effectiveness network weaving. A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend). A paper on "Evaluating participatory, deliberative, and co-operative ways of working," put out by the InterAct group in England.

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