Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. For example, the #givelist tag aggregated all the suggestions from Twitter and then created this site. And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

" They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics. and then aggregating tagged content on their site. The content aggregation is not moderated. The next step, of course, is to throw in a little remix and participatory media culture into it!

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

This is a huge opportunity that will help make it even easier for third parties to create valuable applications to aggregate, organize, and visualize government data. This will take time and effort, organizations should promote their progress so far and communicate to the public the steps they are taking. Stay tuned.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. Which exhibits allow them to aggregate selections from a group? In the same way, we shouldn't think of participatory experiences as being "just for creators." design participatory museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” ” Lots of comments pros and cons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

It is my hope, my prayer that I can use these god given communication skills, our not so new world of participatory media, and make green something so compelling that it cannot help but become an all powerful movement. You know I believe this is our generation’s greatest challenge, as great as the fascist threat that faced our grandparents.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. There is a simple leaderboard and each player's cards are aggregated on a personal dashboard. The most important aspect of designing a successful participatory platform is to intentionally, deliberately, and clearly DESIGN the platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. Content is also being added to the site through streams of aggregated content through the net2 tag. This site, and the Net?? The community is facilitated or sparkplugged by Chris Locke.

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JULY 23, 2009

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. Now that the Challenge is over, what are your big milestones and goals?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Others went on to crown the achievements from the participatory public sphere that have arisen as a result of increased access to content. The rise of data aggregation and collections has spurred tremendous collaborative interactions among people. Their messages shared overarching themes, which I have distilled below: 1.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

I will aggregate the results for later discussion on the blog. I’m teaching a course on social technology at the University of Washington Museology program this spring, and we’ve decided to open up a FREE workshop on participatory design for museum practitioners and other students on the afternoon of the 24th (thank you, UW).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

No museum is as flexible or participatory as the Web has become. dynamic content aggregation and network machines). The Web showed that one way to keep a content delivery platform current is to involve its users as meaningful participants rather than passive recipients of that content. Should they be?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences. They kept the interface simple.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. I also think it would be useful for the MIA to aggregate blog posts, Flickr photos, etc. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces. I want to aggregate all the data, synthesize it and share it. More data means more interesting, nuanced conclusions for everyone.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

Your user profile is functionally an aggregate of the movies you have rated, and the more finely tuned the profile, the more useful the recommendations. Tags: personalization participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. This implicit promise is also the key to why people willingly rate hundreds of movies on Netflix.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Unlike the "related videos" list, which is aggregated automatically by YouTube, video responses are self-assigned by their creator. marketing participatory museum. While videos with millions of views often have tens of video responses, there are many in the thousands and hundreds of thousands without video responses.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

Again, the physical reinforcement at the pledge kiosks--seeing the aggregated stubs of signature cards in the plexi cases--helped visitors understand what to do. The handwritten pledge is an intelligent starting point for creating merged digital/analog participatory experiences.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

At level three, the visitor is polled about the issue and sees her result compared to the cumulative aggregate. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum interactives. At level two, the visitor has some interactive experience (pushing buttons, etc.) with the issue. At level five, the visitors start discussing the issue together.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

dynamic content aggregation and network machines)." But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. I started the Museum 2.0 blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 static content delivery machines) to 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

This positions the museum at the center of the action, gives you an easy way to track online activity, and provides a useful service for participants to aggregate their content. Projects participatory museum. Evaluate the outcome. If not, consider whether this is the right partner and where better friendships might be found.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

On blogs and aggregators that draw heavily from 3 and 4. Ideas design participatory museum interactives. The web used to also be heavy on 1 and 2; you go to web pages, you look at stuff, you click on stuff. But now, web usage is different. Where do I get my content? How do I search? How do I buy stuff? informatics Core Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2008

I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. There was a self-aggregating group who toured an art exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Not everyone comes back to read the evolving comment stream, but the aggregate is always valuable to the next visitor. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent. But I know that the resultant conversation provided information to many subsequent visitors to the space. It's like following blog comments.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

This is a valid concern, especially on social sites that are not tightly aggregated. Many museums are attacking this problem by hosting a central "community" or "social" page on their websites (see COSI's or the Brooklyn Museum's ) that aggregates all of the Web 2.0 Projects participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record. The goal of a wiki is to aggregate content of interest. But wikis are a very specific tool. They require more of their audience in terms of participation than other Web 2.0

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