Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 1, 2009

Creating a sustainable engagement platform within your existing structure takes time, creativity and dedication. In the two frameworks I've been co-creating, Transmedia Activism Modeling Global Change, we've based the frameworks on the core value of putting the social change issue first.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 8, 2013

They invested massive amounts of time and money into the rebrand, hiring the very best designers and brand managers to help them redesign their image. Tropicana launched the newly designed carton and logo, and sat back to watch the results of their hard work. Met the artist? We all do it. We buy from the brands we trust.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

You can even have fun engaging your supporters and board members when coming up with these designs. Design them free on Canva. Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. Swag or merch: pick and design swag that directly relates to your charity.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. Then we started working with our local design and technology firms— Ziba Design and Fashionbuddha —and in the prototyping, it became clear we had to go another way.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. Most hackerspaces have very transparent legal structures and operate on a consensus model. This isn't just a geek thing.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I was the project manager/curator for the exhibition, leading both the Second Life-based community exhibit design process and the real world translation of virtual exhibits. We shrunk the exhibit design process (concept to floor) from 2 years to five months. One exhibit designer told me, "we never seem to lack for good ideas.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 4, 2007

There's a game design source I used extensively at the beginning of development for Operation Spy: Gamasutra. If anyone out there is considering creating an industry catch-all site for museum-related content, I highly recommend Gamasutra as a model. I want a little kid's designation: this is a bunch of art you can touch.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The mission of World of Good, as a company, is to create the largest distribution system for fair trade, handmade items from artists' and women's cooperatives around the world. The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. Next Step Design is an experiment in “Crowdsourcing Public Participation in Transit Planning.”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2009

Recently, I've become obsessed with the work of Tim Hunkin , an eccentric British inventor/exhibit designer/wacky science art guy who runs a "mad arcade" of coin-operated installations in Suffolk. lowers the number of users who just bang on the things, thus reducing maintenance costs and enabling more risky interactive design.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2007

Elaine points out that children's museums and children's areas in particular are often designed to encourage seemingly unsupervised play opportunities for kids while also providing seating for adults to engage socially while watching the action. Is it okay for people to express themselves artistically or musically in the galleries?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

I think also it's really exciting to be involved in a space like this because since you are designing it from the beginning, you get a chance to bring your values into it and for me, the sustainability part of it is really important. IS: I can add to that. I strongly believe in the triple bottom line -- which is people, planet, and profit.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

Many people mentioned the intelligent design/evolution debate, raising examples of angry homeschoolers and religious groups. Failure of NIH drug testing design An exhibit only in a language other than English Santa Claus – Real or Not? Tags: exhibition design professional development. What's in your comfort zone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail Note from Beth: In 1993, I worked as the "network weaver" for an online network for individual artists called "Arts Wire" where I facilitated online conversations, provided technology support and training. The envisioned twenty-first-century model, however, is more level. Museums are changing.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The World Beach Project is managed by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London with artist-in-residence Sue Lawty. And yet this reward, mixed with an intelligent project design, are enough to make this project attractive to people all over the world. The World Beach Project does not exist in the V&A Museum. It's not marketing hype.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Because of their designation as independent contractors—that is, because they are not defined as full-time employees of a company—platform workers typically receive very low wages, and have few worker protections or benefits. First, they can become a model for creating a true solidarity economy. 9</sup).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

User participation is a design and program strategy, and it should be used to make institutions better overall. When asked why these artistic directors were pursuing co-creative processes, "to make great art!" For Louise, the focus on "making great art" doesn't just demonstrate these artists' commitment to the co-creative process.

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