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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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Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies?

Museum 2.0

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. The beauty of this — is that the stories work well as micro content and as an opportunity for engagement? The above shows the methods.

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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.” People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. Valeria Maltoni wrote a great post with the same title featuring ten tips on creating movements just two days ago.

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Mr. Manager, Tear down this wall!

Forum One

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. The winner is the one who creates the best new model for displaying government content.

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I Like To Watch Feed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future. I don't really have commercial aims for my blog so it is more a playground and archive for my brain, which I hope will be useful to whoever happens by. What are the values of tagging for you and your audience?

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