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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Go read it.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. So, I use the term social media to encompass all the tools and all the practices that are described by the terms I mentioned above.

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Don't Join the Conversation if You Aren't Ready to Listen

Museum 2.0

MoMA is present on many social networks , including Facebook and Twitter, and clearly “heard” from people about this issue. This afternoon, they issued a lengthy collaborative statement. This is why I always say that participatory tools are about relationships, not technology. They met in person.

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Designing Recommendation Systems that Go Beyond "You'll Like This"

Museum 2.0

These systems use forms of collaborative filtering to analyze what you've liked and find things that might be similar based on both expert and user data. The more you use it, the better it gets--and that symbiotic relationship serves customer and vendor alike. This promise is what is missing from so many museum rating systems.

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Pointing at Exhibits, Part 2: No-Tech Social Networks

Museum 2.0

But now, I'm looking at the story of visitors pointing in Race in a different way: as a low-tech example of a socially networked platform. The Complexities of Socially Networked Museum Platforms How do you design physical infrastructure that ties individuals together in meaningful ways?