Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 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. Consider a mural.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. However, when I have participants that also include physically disabled people who are wheel-chair users, have limited mobility, or blind, I make accommodations to be inclusive and, especially avoid being ableist.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. note: originally, this said "we're writing a label" but with that phrasing, lots of people wrote creative titles for the surfboards (like the title for a work of art) instead of talking about content of interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals are routine and intentional activities that carry meaning. I’ve taken up many new self-care activities during 2020 to cope with the pandemic stress. It isn’t just about the tools, but about how people need to work and think differently. Keeping Resilient in 2021.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

When you teach internationally, it is important to localize your content and Tharum was able to provide many local and regional examples and tips. We also had an opportunity to make a recording to deliver some of the content from our workshop that the IFC will make available to small NGOs in other parts of the world.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The new building was designed to meet neighborhood needs--not just in the content covered, but in the inclusion of spaces made for particular kinds of activities sought by locals (i.e. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. She was political.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. "There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go. the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content.

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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. Consider a mural.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. I wanted to know more.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

I would guess that most people have no idea that this work is happening at zoos. I had a vague sense of how conservation fit into their educational missions, but I didn''t realize the extent of the direct advocacy and activism happening every day. We give people content and then we say, "you decide." I certainly didn''t.

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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. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes peer learning. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

I am fascinated by the incredible differences in what people contribute based on format and phrasing of the invitation to participate. Our current exhibition is about why people collect things. that we selected during prototyping. The prompt "Things we forget" tends to invite more communal or broad responses, i.e.

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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? The first of these reasons is practical.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. 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. What did you end up with and how did you get there?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

I personally really like any activism that includes individual expression like this (like www.sorryeverybody.com ) If someone gets out the crayons and makes a sign, they are definitely engaged in your cause. Just last week, Lee Romeo, posted something over a Netsquared about a similar use of flickr - people holding signs.

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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. You have to remind people, keep reaching out.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. But people have participated in completely different ways. People like participating, we take them seriously, and they take us seriously. The participation is almost 100% on-topic and appropriate.

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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. The people at Museums and the Web are on the forefront of web-based innovative museum practice. You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk. A strong participatory process is not a loosey-goosey, open the doors and do whatever strategy. What do you do?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. If all museums get better, we have more people who like going to museums, which increases museum revenues, and makes the field more stable. We often use them to add in extra content we couldn’t get into the label or assess people’s learning.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to help support the NTEN Community Challenge , which helped to enhance NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We just started to try to live up to that vision, partnership by partnership, activity by activity. We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county. I can't believe it when I hear words from the strategic plan come out of people's mouths.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

It brought together a rich mix of people working in humanitarian causes, using social media, and creatives. Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. The format, the physical space, and network weaving activities were extraordinary. My slides are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. When you have four facilitators, you want to make sure that you choreograph each activity. Defining Roles. I like to use a rock band metaphor.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Consider whether you want a bonded group (people who are like each other) or a bridged group (people who are different from each other). Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. If you are building something new and want people's ideas, go for bridging.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

with cultural professionals, I like to use Tim O'Reilly's simple definition: software that gets better the more people use it. 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. Consider the activity of rating videos on YouTube.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

In the last week: 10,000ish people saw the blog post on the web or as an email. 3,125 people viewed the game. 610 people played the game. 20 people commented on it. The vast majority of folks consume most content online passively. Some people actively play, share, collect, or gather online content.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Dustin: About a year ago I met a couple of people from Museum Hack at a conference. We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. Can you give an example of the kind of Museum Hack activity that makes this different from other museum tours?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out. Design must comes first. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey. Next, as a group we do a theme analysis. It is between the two methods.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Imagine you want to invite people to meaningfully engage with a serious topic in an exhibition. What forms of content delivery or participation might induce someone not just to read/look/listen but to care--and hopefully, to act? When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The early participatory projects are terrific. In contrast, the activities undertaken to promote and launch the museum are truly inspiring. How would you navigate the political minefields of such an endeavor?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? They are frequently about real people's stories. Balancing multi-vocal content with a comprehensive narrative can be tricky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. Curated Content. Also to inform people about our books through book trailers.

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