Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." vlogging, and podcasting).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Last night I had the pleasure of joining a conversation with WOW2 over at edtech. I've been a fan of Vicki Davis's blog ( CoolCat Teacher Blog ) for sometime now. One of my best sources is, of course, Andy Carvin's digital divide category on his blog. The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? Keep A Running List of High Engagement Conversation Starters and Use Them Regularly.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0 You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station. He will respond to comments here and can also be reached on his blog (where this post first appeared). I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

blog posts from the past. This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. What was your experience?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Two exceptional examples of community committees stand out: one long standing, The Community Advisory Committees of The Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience and one emerging, the Creative Community Council of the Children’s Creativity Museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! I’m giving away a free registration to NTEN’s Leading Social Change Summit. I’ll pick a winner by July 3oth.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Listening to and consulting the crowds: Actively listening to online conversations and openly asking for advice. This blog post at the Knight Foundation talks about designing for serendipity in more detail. We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’ll be sharing insights on my blog as the project unfolds — it is going to be a rich opportunity for learning because it is a capacity building project that leverages a networked approach. Experience with Middle Eastern Culture and no experience. Efficiency. Building on a five-year investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

The network on Twitter responded: If you’re overly emotional and reject quantitative data or unemotional and reject lived experience, you are less effective from Seth Godin shared by WSUCCSR. Storytelling Project is an experiment in collecting community feedback. Only measure impact, not process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2008

I had to finish my video blogging assignments. However, I was able to get the key points from live blog posts and tweets from my colleagues. Kari Peterson said there were great examples shared in the room (as well as chocolate) Laura Whitehead did a splendid live blog post at the Netsquared blog as did Ivan Boothe.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

These are unpaid, part-time internships in which you will make a significant contribution to our work, and at the same time, learn a heck of a lot about participatory design and community engagement. Check out the descriptions and how to apply here , and learn more about the MAH intern experience on their blog here.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog. I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. (I Beth Kanter is the author of Beth’s Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media , one of the longest running and most popular blogs for nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 8, 2015

Last week on this blog, I tried an experiment. I wanted to open up conversation about how we judge the relative ethics of various sources of museum revenue--all of which have moral grey areas. In the last week: 10,000ish people saw the blog post on the web or as an email. The outcome taught me a few things about ethics.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

I hope you will join me for… StrangeMuse Experiment—this Sunday, April 5. You can participate in this experiment from anywhere in the world (I’ll be in Seattle at the zoo with a group of grad students). I will aggregate the results for later discussion on the blog.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. The repeat experience is progressively familiar, so I feel like I am entering a space with known faces. We see it on TV.

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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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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. And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience. What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. SSIR Blog, January 2013. The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Not Data Driven.”

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

It was terrific to have a packed room and a long, open conversation (we split the session into half presenting, half audience discussion) about these issues. This woman is killing it when it comes to developing in-gallery interactive experiences around permanent collections. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Is it a conversation? In almost all cases, museums assure me that they want to be in conversation, that they want to be responsive, that they want to “really hear” what people think. In one case, the institution jumped into the conversation and converted an ugly situation into a positive community outcome.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

First, a reassurance--I'm not ending the blog. blog will continue, and I intend to write as freely and directly as I have in the past. Because of the increased workload I expect in the months to come, as well as the likely possibility that we will start a Museum of Art & History blog, I'm lowering my Museum 2.0 I promise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Design must comes first. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

It''s resulted in some of my favorite work ever: games like #namethatzoom , projects like FeederSketch , adult-only Ball Pits , and most importantly, the creation of Experimonth , which is what I''d like to blog about today. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' Experimonth started out as play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

They also offer any reader of Beth’s Blog a special discount code of 10% on the conference registeration (use this code: 10beth when you register ) Meghan Ventura from Games for Change has wrote this guest post about how nonprofits are using games to leverage their missions. government and encouraging participatory democracy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Tweet conversations about you. Networks, groups, applications, conversations, meet-ups, T-shirts, donations, volunteer events and political actions receive community wide support and in many cases are created by the community itself. My experience has informed me over and over again that you will fail. Don’t make that mistake.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

There was an interesting mini-conversation, which, in retrospect, I really wish I’d had a chance to explore more, about the supposed "egalitarian" nature of free and open source software development. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. The experiment requires you to go to a public space and do three things: Talk to a stranger. Spring is here and it’s time to talk to strangers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2006

What happens when you don't have the time to experiment or play so you feel comfortable? d apply anywhere else outside my experience." He defines participatory culture as a culture: 1. Our conversations here in the blogosphere are participatory, although it would be nice to have multimedia conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

One thing that stood out in our conversations is that the civic tech field is ready for a deeper dive on outcomes. Designers of these civic tech platforms and apps are already measuring results, such as the number of users, and are very familiar with tools like Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Create ownership of solutions : “Based on your experience, what do you suggest we do here?”. Mindful Listening: Master the Basics of Focused Conversation. Conversations with other people at work are a basic part of what we do at work everyday. Observe and Understand Body Language.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Conversations about the tournament on the street. Barry Hessenius recently wrote a blog post questioning the theory that more art into the school day will increase and bolster future adult audiences for art experiences. Sensible tiers lead to sensible discernment when it comes to paying for audience experiences.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

a way to catalyze conversations among diverse people, mediated by their objects. I strongly recommend you read her whole blog back to the beginning (it's not too onerous) and check out the evolution of her experimental format, which she has deployed in museums, libraries, and classrooms in the US and Australia. Smaller is not worse.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

When people ask about blogging, the question of comments comes up more frequently than any other. Why not ask more typical website questions, "why don't more people visit my blog?" or "why don't more people link to my blog?" They prove that the conversation is two-way. When you read other peoples' blogs, do you comment?

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