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.

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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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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Participatory. Participatory. In San Francisco, datasf.org aggregates raw data from over 140 city departments, making it available to any member of the public, for any reason. Collaborative. Are those words you usually associate with your government? Transparent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

" They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics. They are encouraging people to tag into del.icio.us, flickr, YouTube, etc. and then aggregating tagged content on their site. The content aggregation is not moderated. There are 198 photos in the flickr stream. (My

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Photo by Mansikka. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. For example, the #givelist tag aggregated all the suggestions from Twitter and then created this site. What is a #HashTag?

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. There are implications of Click that represent more than just photo arrangement. What is Click? They kept the interface simple.

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