Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,&# a story telling tool. (And, had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking.

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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. Bridging differences: Deliberately connecting people with different perspectives. Catalyzing mutual support: Helping people directly help each other. What will be the nature of public participation and conversation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I spent today at day 1 of the TechSoup Global Summit in Mountain View with two hundred and forty people who work in the TechSoup Global Network around the world, plus other stakeholders. Next, Daniel Ben-Horin gave us the context of the TSG Network and hopes for the future that would emerge from the conversations over the next few days.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. What a treat to learn together with people from so many different countries and contexts! The outdoor setting lent itself easily to side conversations, wandering from table to table, or breaking into conga lines (yes, it happened).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. To me, this is an example of how the aggregation of participatory practices fundamentally changes the role that an organization has in its community.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. (I Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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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. When doing interactive sessions, you also have to give a nod to the introverts in the room who don’t always process well by having a conversation with someone they don’t know.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

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. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Her case study about Structured Dialogue in the Signtific Game in chapter 3 describes a project where people engaged in conversation online about wild ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. It also makes it easy for attendees to follow the conversation thread and participate whether they are or in the room or following from afar. Photo by Mansikka. What is a #HashTag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The film that lite the tinderbox of protests is disgusting and insulting to a people of Islamic faith and yes social media can accelerate protests and violent responses quickly (as it can accelerate social good.) “When people who were born and raised in dictatorships. ” Widad E.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

We are asked to contain those people and make sure they do what we want, and also ensure only the “good” ideas are accepted. Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. Tweet conversations about you. Don’t make that mistake.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

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. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Organizational Awareness: the ability to understand the politics within an organization and how these affect the people working in them. Service: the ability to understand and meet the needs of people you work with. Pay close attention to interactions with other people. Identify other people’s emotional states.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Consider whether you want a bonded group (people who are like each other) or a bridged group (people who are different from each other). Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. If you are building something new and want people's ideas, go for bridging.

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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. People talk. People talk. I take the same bus every day and recognize many of the people on it. One guy sings.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 A good third place is one that you can walk into and be swept into lively conversation or unstructured revelry. The primary activity in third places is conversation among patrons. People make fun of each other and laugh loudly. On the other hand.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." We want to cultivate a more diverse audience, especially younger people, and we want to do it authentically." Fabulous!" "But This is incredibly scary.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

LinkedIn has a new feature where people can congratulate each other on work anniversaries. It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. We have an incredible group of people working together at the MAH right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. We spent a lot of time identifying grantees and other funders, but also people who be “thought catalysts” or subject matter experts in “21 st Century advocacy” to bring into the room. How might we be complicit in preserving power or dispersing it?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Unlike Superstruct , which employed a very open-ended collaborative framework to invite people to imagine their circumstances in 2019 relative to several provocative scenarios, Signtific is a more focused, tight experience, both in content and format. In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I didn't know how to kick off a productive conversation, make group decisions, or close a meeting with energy. I had lots of creative formats for drawing people out, sharing stories, and working collaboratively. Invite people into participation. Everyone's eyes on me, expecting something. I had no idea what to do. Take the lead.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

First, we realized that our museum is different from other museums, but our benefits and membership structure were the same as others. Some experiences completely cut across demographics - some people like parties, some people want a solitary experience with art. People want to experience art in quite individual ways.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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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. In the education department, we have some key values around slowing down, conversation and participation around art, and deep looking.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

People answer questions differently in harshly lit interrogation rooms than they do in welcoming therapists' offices or in the privacy of their own computer terminals. We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. I'm not talking about guiding content; I'm talking about guiding form.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

And for all you people using Four Square , it's also one of the official Check-in for Charity locations (hint: new badge anyone?). Games for Good panel Monday, March 15 at 12:30 PM – “You made an amazing, educational, and progressive game using the latest in gaming technology- now how do you get people to actually play it?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For causes, this can range from increasing conversion rates by testing simple design tweaks, to nailing rapid response and raising $24M in a weekend. People want to spread ideas much more than they care about being card-carrying member of your organization. It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.”

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. My big challenge during this stage was feeling comfortable putting my roughest work out for people to read.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

--Elaine Heumann Gurian, The Importance of "And" Recently, I''ve been embroiled in local and national conversations about the relationship between active participation and quiet contemplation in museums. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. Some visit the archives.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Trivia Night @ P&H Originally uploaded by Sean Davis Yes, these people are filling out worksheets. The theme is "Civic Dialogue," and the journal includes articles on the historical, cultural, media, and museum practice of getting people talking to each other (including one by me about such endeavors on the web).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Overview slides of what is Web2.0 ( remix from Social Media and Nonprofits Presentation) Core theme Listening - Responding to what people are saying about the topic or the program. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. Now that Clay???

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