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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? "There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content. More here ). *

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her post was based off of the Brains of Fire Manifesto, “ 10 Lessons Learned in Igniting Word of Mouth Movements.” We are asked to do it in controlled environments. People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. Both posts influenced this speech. Yes, that difficult word, BUT.

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Join Me for A Social Design Experiment on April 5

Museum 2.0

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. And there are three reasons I’d really value your participation: I want to suck your brain and revel in your inventiveness.

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Why Doesn't Anyone Comment on Your Blog?

Museum 2.0

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. If you do indeed want to cultivate a community discussion, start with a blog "family" to fuel the blog, or, better yet, consider another venue like Twitter or a social network that is a more conducive environment to active participation among strangers.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. They have a magazine called Race, Poverty and Environment Magazin e. If life is a chessboard, content is still king.

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Please Don't Send Me to My Personal Webpage

Museum 2.0

There were many intriguing exhibits and a novel cellphone game (more on that in another post), but I was particularly interested in their new special exhibition on the brain. We swiped our RFID tags all over the Brain exhibition to save our actions, scores, and preferences. There are some obvious positives to this strategy.