Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The youtube video is from Star Bucks Campaign. Tim Fullerton from Oxfam America - who organized the campaign and will be speaking about at NTC - shared the URL of the YouTube video. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. In this short video , one participant even talks about her therapist. I don't know.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. This year, the MIA also accepted audio/video submissions of up to 80 seconds, which are displayed on a Vimeo site. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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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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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Using newsletters, e-mails , videos, podcasts, websites, non-ask events , etc. Get them moving on behalf of your charity with participatory fundraising. are great ways to communicate with and steward your donors. Ask your donors to volunteer, to serve on committees, to join your board. Get them involved.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

It can be as simple as setting boundaries on the number of video meetings a staff member should be in each day to taking actionable steps to be more transparent with grantees on timelines. There are several benefits to adding participatory grantmaking to your funding programs. Participatory grantmaking does require a mindset shift.

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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

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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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Articles, reports, podcasts, and videos: The Problems With Philanthropy, and What We Can Do to Fix Them. Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Empowering Communities: Participatory Grantmakers Say We Must Go beyond Feedback. Equity in the Center: Video Case Studies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

In a few weeks, there will be a video blogging geekout session at NTC. I'm the session designer and I got a couple of rock stars from the video blogging community with us - Jay Dedman , Ryan Hodson , Jonny Goldstein , Andy Carvin , and Robyn Tippins to lead the session. How did you incorporate the use of video in your campaign?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The facilitation methods are participatory. Check out their online platform, Luma Workplace , where you can read articles, download templates, and watch instructional videos. Liberating Structures: My colleagues Nancy White and Kyla Shawyer introduced me to this participatory approach to facilitation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Advertising fundraising events, posting educational videos, or creating engagement posts are all positive forms of communication that stakeholders can get involved with, opening the door for collaboration. Collaborate through field work and participatory practice. Use social media for positive engagement.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. So I put all the forms together first.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool.

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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

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

They also had a talented filmmaker capture the winners’ stories in brief videos. If you want to see storytelling at its finest, coupled with breathtaking social impact, watch the videos. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide. It refers to the part of a participatory process where you know the problem or consensus won’t come easily. It would be a video, instructional role play, or case study, where a network leader would share their story of events leading up to the groan zone and getting past it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

I've been away from making media for a little bit and so it is nice to come back to it with a little perspective on how cameras and video editing have gotten so much easier. It automatically uploads to Youtube or other service or emails the video. . Flip Video Camera : These are easy to use, inexpensive cameras with a built-USB port.

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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? The first part of the video is the actual ride through the scare house which lasted all of two minutes. The way to get past fear of uncertainty is to deconstruct it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. WEF encouraged people to create a selfie video for 20 seconds asking a question that a world leader would answer. Here’s how they combined the videos.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I'm thinking about the use of video or vlog posts coupled with fundraising widgets as well as some other possible ways (ad revenue from web videos?) I did a campaign video. Coupling a video with group fundraising on the web has been evolving in the last two or three months. I don't know what I mean yet. I contributed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Here's an article from Moving Targets that explains why YouTube isn't the best place for political and advocacy web video. There are other reasons why YouTube can be problem too - the little issue of content ownership, particularly if you want your work to get out there and be remixed as in participatory media. It's all about context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

We do this not only to stay in the spirit of the participatory engagement styles that are now emerging, but also because the findings represent only the present moment in a story that is far from concluding. Nothing is settled about how even the most relevant and impactful advocacy organizations engage constituencies or attracts resources.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When Clubhouse was launched in its alpha form last year, it was discussed as being a new form of participatory media “that would change everything,” d’Sa said, and he wanted something like that for his work colleagues. “So much about becoming friends at work underpins how you ultimately collaborate.”. That’s how LiveKit was born.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Even if your organization isn’t ready for a full participatory approach to your grantmaking, for example, understand the core tenets so you can address questions and get feedback from grantees. Monitor changes in both philanthropy and technology so you can determine what makes the most sense for your organization and grantees.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

Watch the video at the top of this post, and you''ll see the requisite happy people of diverse backgrounds with power tools and post-its. A strong participatory process is not a loosey-goosey, open the doors and do whatever strategy. design inclusion institutional change participatory museum' It''s serious.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Kate was selected from over 1500 applicants based on a one-minute video, an essay, and an application form. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off.

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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. Or if YouTube allowed people to upload videos but gave them no information about when those videos would be available for viewing. nothing happens.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2008

I had to finish my video blogging assignments. 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. Connect like-minded participants. Connect complimentary threads.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

If you're into video, check out this 25 minute talk I gave on the conference theme "from place to presence." I just discovered that my keynote at the 2o10 NODEM conference on digital media and heritage is available online.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2018

Here's the link if you can't see the video embedded below. I realized I was feeling the same fear and excitement that comes with any truly participatory project. For years, I've believed that the most powerful question you can ask to shift to a participatory mindset is: how can participants help make this project better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Two powerful catalysts for change in the world of documentaries are Good Pitch —a collaboration of Channel 4 Britdoc Foundation and the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Film Program—and the Producers Institute for New Media Technologies at the Bay Area Video Coalition.

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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 Blog did for me recently in the video above. In short, deconstruct it and face it head on.

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