Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first reason is the excessive focus on specific social media tools. Many first-timers are introduced to social media via specific tools. Many ’social media experts’ who are practitioners rather than thinkers also focus on specific tools. My own approach to social media is both tool-agnostic and terminology-agnostic.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized. Why haven't children's museums pushed past the 1970s model?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. While effective as a tool for rapid change, “embrace the chaos” is not a comfortable management strategy. 85% of our visitors attend through events.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. The sheet gave people a lightweight tool to use in social interaction, to trade and share stamps.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

starts to point toward the more collaborative environments that are being termed "social media" these days. And indeed, we find VRM being discussed on sites like "The Social Customer" blog by Christopher Carfi, which is trying to evolve models of customer service and marketing that assume a more empowered and participatory customer base.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The model for disseminating web content is evolving. Others went on to crown the achievements from the participatory public sphere that have arisen as a result of increased access to content. However, these traditional models are breaking apart. Traditional barriers between consumers and real-time information are falling.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

What kinds of tools and media they can access. Who their role models are. When we talk about embracing participatory experiences at non-professional levels, arts professionals often get worried that the best work will get drowned out in mediocrity. We have to look at what kids are doing after school. Consider soccer.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. In the Zingerman's model, visioning is for everyone at all levels of the organization. A small group volunteered to take this work forward to establish a shared vision we can then use to guide us to more collaboration in the coming months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Most of the projects with these programs were carried out collaboratively; so I had a chance to see how different kinds of organizations, from grassroots to national, operate. It focused on collaborative e-learning. A premise for this work is that we need to be better at working collaboratively???whether

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We’ll examine how to harness tools for nurturing positive outcomes and amplifying impact. The NTC brings together the best and brightest nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness with technology. Yale Philanthropy Conference / New Haven, CT / $110. Strategic. Technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. SL is not some new revolutionary model that has never been seen before. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. Come on, get real already.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration. Level the playing field or tip it in their favor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

To Be Successful You Need both A Network Mindset and Networking Tools. A Networked organization is more than just the electronic infrastructure and tools that facilitate communication. It is a collaborative way of working. Annie talked about how networks focus on collaboration and action, rather than institution building.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Social Fundraising Success: Strategies & Tools for Activating Your Community **. Setting yourself up for social fundraising success requires crafting the right strategy and choosing the right tool. Designing Online Engagement to Collaborate With Your Community - You can design online engagement to unleash your evangelists.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

It’s time for nonprofits and foundations to upgrade our digital decision-making tools. We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy that aims “to expand people’s power to make government decisions.”

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? a conference).

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Values such as power-sharing, equity, and collaboration are at the heart of these ideas, and they provide a framework for enhancing agility, reducing burden, and simplifying the funding process. Simplify and streamline paperwork. Be transparent and responsive. Solicit and act on feedback. Offer support beyond the check.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

It is crucial that LAMs be considered public civic spaces, but Oldenburg's model leaves a lot to be desired. The ideal of third places, that attracts we cultural heritage types, is a democratic space where civic life is built collaboratively and at a personal level. And John Cotton Dana's department store model is an interesting one.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. letting museum visitors contribute and collaborate in museums), I now see this as a crucial issue also for more democratic and inclusive practice (i.e. There are many models as well for what we do with user-generated content in the museum.

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