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. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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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. Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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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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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Another way of creating an unforgettable impression with your audience is by stunning them with words. I'm also guessing that you probably haven't put those stories to work for your larger donor audience. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. As the great non profit techy Yoda would say, "Do or do not. There is no try.".

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Another way of creating an unforgettable impression with your audience is by stunning them with words. I'm also guessing that you probably haven't put those stories to work for your larger donor audience. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. As the great non profit techy Yoda would say, "Do or do not. There is no try.".

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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?" Tags: youth Talking to Strangers.

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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. How do they affect the relationship between those on the stage and the audience? Jeffrey Veen calls this person an ombudsman for the audience.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum. Dear Museum 2.0

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” How do these issues relate to the mission and audience of your museum? We believe that strong connections should exist between museums and their communities.

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Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

But, these platforms also provide the potential for government organizations to improve the satisfaction of their employees as well as citizens by enabling more open, transparent, collaborative, and participatory communications and offer the potential to increase workplace efficiency, productivity, and innovation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

This museum was unusual in that the lobby area had a high concentration of pop art meant to appeal to a wide audience. Read about the Human Library in chapter 3 of The Participatory Museum by searching that term here.) Tags: design participatory museum. Where are the social hotspots in your institution?

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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. These folks are taking content to the biggest audiences in the field, often without the resources or support of other content creators. The work is 24/7 and the pay can be 7/11.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

You can also tags. In addition, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has an excellent round up of advice on engaging audiences - which is necessary if you want to dip your toes into participatory media. That is important if you want to stream them with a tool like splashr. Harry's advice: Put a dog on the card!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. Who is the audience for your feed? Tell me about your experience with tagging. Why do you tag? What are the values of tagging for you and your audience? A girl can dream can't she?)

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 22, 2010

Spending time in Europe, I'm reminded how complicated it gets when you have to interpret exhibits for a multi-lingual audience. Many fabulous participatory projects--like the Johnny Cash Project or the Art Gallery of Ontario's " In Your Face "--don't require language. Tags: design usercontent inclusion. So what are the options?

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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. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. What kind of dialogue are you looking to spark?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Elsewhere’s Living Museum, open daily, offers audiences (average 300/week) an exploratory environment to play within and a site where creative practice is made public and the artwork and museum are themselves in a constant state of flux. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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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. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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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. Spawned by exaggerated fears, governments and content publishers distrusted their constituents or audiences and would only release information once it had been filtered, cleansed, or massaged.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. These institutions have three additional reasons for homogeneity: The audience cycles frequently as families "age out." Institutions may feel less of a need to offer something unusual or distinctive if the audience will keep refreshing every few years.

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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. How can we improve on these models to becomes sites for participatory giving? Ideas participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2009

While this post is not about museums, it tells the story of how a performance group developed participatory elements as an integral part of their show. For most rock bands, the signature moment of audience participation is when the singer shouts “HELLO, CLEVELAND!” Local kids make good!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. When people share their photos of your museum, they promote and spread your content to new audiences in authentic ways. Tags: marketing usercontent visitors.

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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! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The pictures I took are full of life and reflect the diversity both of the museum collection and the audience. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. There are two clear next steps I'd take with this: Do more of this, and publish the photos of people with their recommendations. Want to take it to the next level?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

However, by the end of the first week it was clear that the majority of our audience was hooked. As well as our existing audience, new visitors came just because they wanted to be part of it. It was clear that their publicity had more impact with our audience than our tweeting and Flickr posts. Projects participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. While these participants had done the hard work of capturing the images, it was up to the institutions to validate, tag, caption, and prepare them for Wikipedia's use. Tags: web2.0 Image verification was a Herculean effort. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. The audience recycles every few years, and every kid loves making giant bubbles. Tags: children's museums.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. I was recently discussing this project with an audience research specialist, Peter Linett, who is working on a related project to encourage experimentation and risk-taking in museum practice. Maybe not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? t do it for an audience. The audience may come, but to keep going regardless of readership, it???s

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. Tags: web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We will then create a screencast, with audience participation, in the style of a cooking show. (No, We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more. I generally don't like to do traditional panels and we're tweaking the format a bit.

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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

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. I felt accountable to an audience, and that kept me going throughout the writing. Check out the other parts here.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

They felt that replacing the keynotes gave them a real opportunity to bring the whole audience together in focused participation which would hopefully spill out and over into the conference as a whole. Jane selected pieces from Hope Stone’s repertoire that juxtaposed with the space and the intended audience. Are you headed to Houston?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

Games are already highly participatory, but over the last few years game designers have been giving players more control over the gameworld and experience. Strangely, Spore is being billed as casual game, or even a toy, and is focusing on audiences that don't want to log hundreds of hours deep in the intricacies of a complex game.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague. Excellent new blogs focused on the field like Museum Audience Insight and Useum. As the audience for the Museum 2.0 There is funding.

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