Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2007

This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg. Now this sort of public participatory use of the web is going mainstream in an experimental program by the U.S. Here's the story from this morning's Washington Post.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. But this goes both ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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, Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

In the comments to a post , Jonny Goldstein, pointed me to the above video from SEIU in YouTube. At Beyond Broadcast Conference keynote, Henry Jenkins , used the term " astro turf " to refer to "participatory media" made by big business. So, over the last month, I've been looking for examples.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. At some institutions, there has been friction when artists find out that their work will be judged or commented on publicly by visitors. They kept the interface simple.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

How many museums have stacks of comment books that are only culled for the gushing quotes that belong on annual reports? The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions. Tags: evaluation Book Discussion: Groundswell participatory museum usercontent.

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