Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I happened to stumble upon this funny tweet from Billboard that asks its Twitter followers to tweet with the hashtag #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong and gave the example “I kissed a squirrel and I liked it.” Keep A Running List of High Engagement Conversation Starters and Use Them Regularly. Engagement'

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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

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. More at TechCrunch and Technology in the Arts Blog. s Blog about?

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MARCH 16, 2009

Here are some live blogging notes from the SXSW session. Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs. I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report analyzes many examples of networks and provides tools and tips for Network-Centric Grantmaking. Diana Scearce, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with on the Network of Networked Funders project, is the report author. This blog post at the Knight Foundation talks about designing for serendipity in more detail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. 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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

blog posts from the past. 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. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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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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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. In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what." The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Beth’s Blog, September 2011. SSIR Blog, January 2013. We identified several great examples of nonprofit using social media data for decision-making, mostly to support communications strategy. Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2008

I had to finish my video blogging assignments. However, I was able to get the key points from live blog posts and tweets from my colleagues. Kari Peterson said there were great examples shared in the room (as well as chocolate) Laura Whitehead did a splendid live blog post at the Netsquared blog as did Ivan Boothe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

One thing that stood out in our conversations is that the civic tech field is ready for a deeper dive on outcomes. For example, if location information will prove useful in tracking place-based impacts, best to build this metric into registration from the start, rather than try to capture the information later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. See this blog post from Creative Commons ). Example of Partham Books on mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 Blog did for me recently in the video above. Here is an example from Pre-School California. In short, deconstruct it and face it head on.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

He will respond to comments here and can also be reached on his blog (where this post first appeared). I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Bad idea” cards, no matter the reason given on the card, always stopped the conversation about an idea.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

There was an interesting mini-conversation, which, in retrospect, I really wish I’d had a chance to explore more, about the supposed "egalitarian" nature of free and open source software development. This was the most diverse crowd I’ve ever talked with or been in for an open source conversation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

It''s resulted in some of my favorite work ever: games like #namethatzoom , projects like FeederSketch , adult-only Ball Pits , and most importantly, the creation of Experimonth , which is what I''d like to blog about today. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' Experimonth started out as play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

today, I took a break from working on something else and decided to summarize a bunch of conversation threads on social media, social media burn out, listening, second wave adoption, and participatory nonprofits that are flying around me so I could begin to make sense. m doing at the moment (hardly a cutting edge example).

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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. For example, here is a storify of the tweets from our track. And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience. .”

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

When people ask about blogging, the question of comments comes up more frequently than any other. Why not ask more typical website questions, "why don't more people visit my blog?" or "why don't more people link to my blog?" They prove that the conversation is two-way. When you read other peoples' blogs, do you comment?

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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. conference, will help non-profit organizations move into that world -- byte by byte, blog by blog, RSS feed by RSS feed. This site, and the Net?? We don't know exactly what the Net??

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

And then I started talking with Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, a UC Berkeley psychologist who blogs under the title Are We Born Racist? It''s impossible to process everything I am learning from these four psychologists in just one blog post. This blog is about shared learning, and I went to engineering school.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

a way to catalyze conversations among diverse people, mediated by their objects. Over the past few years, there have been several fabulous examples of pop-up museums focusing on visitor-generated content. The goal is promoting conversations. Pop-Up Museum [n]: a short-term institution existing in a temporary space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Click To Play John Kenyon tells you why video blogging is useful for nonprofits. We went to a pub with some David Wilcox and Nick Booth, ordered up a few rounds of drinks, and had a fantastic conversation about social media and nonprofits. A definition of screencasting, with real examples. 2 Video Blogging for Nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

Twitter is often categorized as “micro-blogging,” and for the haiku experts among us, you could post very short blog entries via Twitter. I thought that Twitter was for broadcasting—a different but related kind of broadcasting from blogging. It’s about conversations. Consider, for example, this blog.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

blog, and it got me thinking about how and why I first started doing this. Ed Rodley recently wrote a blog post about museum jobs entitled "Getting Hired: It's Who You Know and Who Knows You." blog in November of 2006, about halfway through my work on Operation Spy. The blog started with a conference experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. The ultimate example of this is an eclipse. Tags: design participatory museum. The sun is big.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Rather than starting your own blog or YouTube channel, find the sources out there that relate to your topics of interest and respond to them. You can join the conversation that is already happening about your content where the most eyes and ears are engaged. Let me give you an example. Where should you start? Then, find others.

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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.”. Nicole Lampe, Resource Media, blogged two summaries based on the ideas and discussion: The Future of Conservation: A Return to Our Roots. Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project. New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The "insiders" are another example. The overlaps we put in the core benefits--everyone wants free admission, for example, and the neighborhood discounts. This conversion is really important and it's just the beginning. It's true; this will extend the conversation in the lobby. It can feel constraining.

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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. If not, it says “let’s get started.”

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

And while I’ve been exploring venues , situations , and apparel that serve as social objects, I’ve found few examples of explicitly designed social objects. Most social objects that mediate conversation among strangers are incidental. There are three reasons you might value this activity: It will be fun and kind of unusual.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

Change the World, Lives, with Bikes core conversation Tuesday, March 16 at 11:00 AM – “This core conversation will talk about how cycling, the bike, and social media are changing the world and lives. We'll also talk about how you can get sizeable online grants and free/discounted help from key professionals.”

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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. Yes, people get highly energized in the space and have great conversations about art and art-making.

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