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Social Media, Networks, and Data in Patient Healthcare Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” She was one of the first patients to use video blogging through her nationally recognized YouTube channel to share her story and educate people about life with IBD. This “Dr. Carrie Martin Munk, The ALS Association.

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Guest Post: One Museum's Experiment with Threaded Comment Stations

Museum 2.0

Jasper Visser and his colleagues at the not-yet-physically-open National Historisch Museum of the Netherlands have impressed me with their innovative, thoughtful approach to developing a dynamic national museum. The National Vending Machine is a travelling exposition that tells the historical and personal story behind everyday objects.

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Techniques for Identifying and Amplifying Social Objects in Museums

Museum 2.0

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. Read about the Human Library in chapter 3 of The Participatory Museum by searching that term here.) What's the value of this activity?

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Everyone's Smithsonian: Video, Slides, and an Open Strategic Planning Process

Museum 2.0

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. You should be able to read your mission statement like a chapter of the Torah--exploding out its implications and using it as a kind of legal text for proper action.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. Impact National Conference / Amherst, MA / Less than $200. National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) / Washington, DC / Less than $500. Leadership. Governance.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. 2016 Alliance National Conference. Nonprofit Management.