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, Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative. Think of how Wikipedia works.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

No museum is as flexible or participatory as the Web has become. Or, check out the wikipedia article , which is more readable. The Web showed that one way to keep a content delivery platform current is to involve its users as meaningful participants rather than passive recipients of that content. Should they be?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

side, consider these different major venues: A little explanation: Wikipedia is mostly about content. The value of that content is strongly impacted by the number of active users (social benefit), and there is some collective action around the development of wikipedia articles. Ideas design participatory museum interactives.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Regardless of how museums and libraries portray themselves, it’s clear to users: Wikipedia belongs to them. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion. While museums and libraries may be trusted sources of information, people increasingly prefer sources that are immediately and widely accessible for use and reuse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. Maybe it is more like moment capture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. the work of copyright holders.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The most upsetting moment of the meeting for me was when some participants expressed a willful disregard and derision for participatory scholarship on sites like Wikipedia. Of course, there’s a less legal question here, one about authority and control.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2009

It’s common to have low expectations with regard to the number of people who will create content in participatory platforms (online media-sharing sites, contributory projects, story-sharing exhibits). And yet ironically, we spend most of our time with participatory projects accentuating how open they are. 1% is a pretty exclusive club.

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