Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. I'm nervous. It's messy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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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. Telling visitors that they can't take photos in museums reinforces the sense that the museum is an external authority that owns and controls its objects rather than a shared public resource.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" And in a world where visitors want to create, remix, and interpret content messages on their own, museums can assume a new role of authority as "platforms" for those creations and recombinations. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. Me: "Sort of."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. With no further ado, enjoy this post.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Retraining staff to be translators and hosts instead of experts and authorities is both technologically and philosophically tricky (and necessary). If museum and library content is licensed, not owned, how can we work within those licenses to allow visitors to use and remix to their heart’s content? Let’s change that.

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