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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

Model 98
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How can nonprofit organizations measure community engagement?

ASU Lodestar Center

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009).

Measure 40
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Want to Co-Create an Exhibition on a Hot Issue? Introducing the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit

Museum 2.0

This project wove together many different participatory threads. We commissioned new collaborative artwork. We saw casual visitors volunteer to become foster parents. We'd love to see this model evolve and grow. You can download it for free right now. What did we learn? There were over 100 partners.

Issue 45
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Yes, Audience Participation Can Have Significant Value

Museum 2.0

I'm incredibly proud of all the staff, trustees, volunteers, collaborators, visitors, and members who have made this happen. Our team focused this year on just three things: making the museum more comfortable, hosting new participatory events, and partnering wherever possible. Community response.

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Year One as a Museum Director. Survived!

Museum 2.0

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. From day 1, I believed that we needed to focus in our first year on creating new participatory events to engage the community.

Museum 55
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Reflections on a Weekend with Ze Frank and His Online Community

Museum 2.0

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. Our volunteers and staff--and the participants!--rocked. The activities had a really low barrier to entry.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The Second C: Collaboration. Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media.