Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey. Guidestar has a history of doing walking meetings, especially one on ones and at its Williamsburg location. Design must comes first. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up. Walking Meetings and Video Platforms.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

This past Friday, we experimented with a new feedback format at an evening event focused on poetry and book arts. Instead, Stacey thought, why not make the feedback experience an activity unto itself? The event involved over fifty artists throughout the building helping visitors make their own paper, write poems, stitch books, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. I wrote The Participatory Museum in response to this energy--to put together case studies in the context of a design framework so we could talk as a field about what works and why.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It made me think in ways that I haven't before about the relation of art--as expressive culture--to democracy. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.)

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. There are thriving groups of Flickr users who share photos of themselves imitating art.

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