Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. This way of working requires a different, more participatory leadership model and mindset that Allison Fine and I first wrote about in The Networked Nonprofit and others have written about called “networked leadership.” It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven.

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Achieve

JULY 27, 2017

Beyond broad responses such as “We connect people to the skills they need” or “We strengthen parents’ engagement in their children’s education,” think more specifically about the effect your programs are having on individuals. Include participatory, “you”-centric language (e.g., “Are How does your organization help people? .

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

There are many amazing community representatives from business, arts, education, and social services who connect us to powerful ideas and partners. We had about thirty participants ranging from MAH trustees to artists, educators to architects, moms to grandfathers. It was an evening meeting with beer and chips.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Or maybe education staff are not willing to engage real-time visitors in dialogue around controversial issues. There is a preponderance of reports about the value of new media literacies towards educating productive citizens of the 21st century. There are some ideas that will never fly where you work. That’s fine.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

In DC, I worked half-time for NASA as an electrical engineer and half-time for the Capital Children's Museum (now defunct) as a science educator. Now, as a freelancer, my work combines long-term, creatively challenging participatory exhibit projects with lots of little workshops and brainstorming sessions with institutions around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

I don't think she is saying SL is a fad that will go away as other people without her depth of knowledge have articulated. These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. Now that Clay???s

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