Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. I charted them across the year and pledged to try one each month, inviting others to do them with me and blog about the experience. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' Thus began a year of play.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

These dashboards can tell you at a glance your funding history by program area and the number of applications you’ve received in a given period. If your organization is working to increase first-time applications, for example, you can keep that chart front-and-center on your dashboard so you know your progress at any given time.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

When you augment a photo in the Chicago History Museum's Get Lincolnized! Finally, if visitors are saving their activities in competitive environments like games, being able to see your score relative to others--either in your party or overall--is incredibly engaging. system, your image becomes part of a Flickr stream.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

I didn't grow up staring open-mouthed at natural history dioramas or wandering through art galleries. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. Instead of trying to align ourselves more closely with K-12 and universities, why aren't museums charting new territory in free-choice learning?

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