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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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC. conferences and public events around the world. simplify the production of user generated video content. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" by wearing a button indicating a preference or making a video in a public gallery) vs. privately.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Here's the short version (read the whole thing here ): The Museum of Art & History is committed to creating exhibitions that inspire our diverse audiences to engage deeply with contemporary art and Santa Cruz County history. We see our visitors as partners in actively interpreting and exploring exhibition content.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. People curious to learn more about these trends packed a room at the National Press Club in Washington on September 16 to discuss the challenges and successes of content syndication. For too long, tight controls were placed on information released to the public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Develop a "question of interest" that relates to your content.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Driven by a desire to make a game-changing difference in how people consume content, Tom comfortably resides at the junction where media and technology collide. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8th.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

It feels like a real gift to myself (and hopefully, to you) to schedule all this content now and not have to worry about it when my baby is born. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. Mena got angry at the comments because they were not so civil - particularly those from Ben MetCalfe who Mena called out publically.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. Research suggests that effective social media isn’t just about shilling but instead about sharing valuable content. The work is 24/7 and the pay can be 7/11.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

Visitors may make inappropriate gestures in photos with museum content, thus distorting institutional values and intent. To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. But if you give them something to give to someone ELSE, then your content spreads, packaged in a bundle of goodwill.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Develop a "question of interest" that relates to your content.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. You have an audience need and an institutional value, and now you just need a verb that connects them. Admirably, the Smithsonian has opened up their new media strategic planning via a public wiki.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. But these events have benefits both in terms of audience development and word-of-mouth marketing.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I learned to appreciate the audience reach of a big institution while vastly preferring the diversity of work and lack of bureaucracy of a small one. We had only eight people doing everything related to content and programming at the museum. Like slam poetry, blogging is writing for an immediate and hopefully vocal audience.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

While there is much talk about supporting participation and making museum content relevant, the word "community" hangs like a poorly-defined carrot on a shtick. The general public is not a community. The Brooklyn Museum allows skateboarders to use their public outdoor space, much to the chagrin of some locals.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Both of these programs provide standard public lecture fare with a twist: shorter presentations, more active crowd participation, and a general attitude of a social night out rather than a learning opportunity. But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. Oh, and one other thing.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

static content delivery machines) to 2.0 dynamic content aggregation and network machines)." I always assumed that this would be a semi-private endeavor and that the public nature of the blog would just be an efficient vehicle for sharing my ideas with a small group of interested folks. As the audience for the Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

I am recommending the transcript of Clay Shirky's speech about Gin, Television, and Social Surplus , in which he argues that the next twenty years will be marked by people's slow, incremental, and astoundingly impactful awakening from being passive consumers (of TV) to partly active content creators. But one page! I'm not sure I succeeded.

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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. Every non-spammer editor who signed up was granted full access to change and comment on the content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Another theme of web2.o

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

To expand their audiences. Ghosts of a Chance is in the emerging sub-field of non-commercial ARGs that are directed to a general rather than niche audience. Reaching Non-Gamer Audiences ARGs can be confusing. Why would an art museum create an ARG? To tap into maker culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. I'm nervous. Openness - ????A

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Most social networking sites give each user a unique user profile, along with a personal "home base" where you can always find your content, your contacts, and your interests. Note that even the content of this exhibition is focused on 2.0-style A social networking site is one in which users connect with one another.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Philanthropy Southwest / Austin, TX / $625. General / @southwestfdns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Malcolm Gladwell’s article “Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted,&# brings the slacktivism , social media for social good or evil , strong and weak ties , and organizations vs networks debates to a mainstream audience. I would argue it’s the content and the context that determines and strengthen ties.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Charlene and Josh define two distinct reasons why embracing audience participation is useful: to develop better products, and to develop them faster. This same process can also be applied to visitor-generated content. But if the content is laying fallow, reviewed by NO ONE, why not let visitors take up the mantle?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

The film was long for a museum (35 minutes) and geared towards adults, so the audience had thinned appreciably by the end, when a staff member invited all of us to join her on the floor of the museum for our own laughter club. There’s a reason clowns pull up single volunteers to mortify them and entertain the audience.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

They require more of their audience in terms of participation than other Web 2.0 The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. Wikis don't explicitly acknowledge individuals with "profile power"--content is prioritized, not identity. Wikis are great for documenting events with many parallel content tracks.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Now, NYSCI is experimenting in a new medium, with a very tough and adult content focus. I sat down with Eric Siegel, NYSCI’s Director and Chief Content Officer, to learn more about False Conviction. It’s about thinking about science centers and the public understanding of science as a human problem. This project had that feel.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

Building off of Michelle DelCarlo’s pop up museum model, MAH pop up museums bring different people, perspectives, and projects to one central gathering place, enabling a democratic type of public curation. This bridges institutional and community-created content. What does this look like? The changeability is part of its charm.

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