Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. ” Lots of comments pros and cons. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. 2: Mobile Usage. #3:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The authors were kind enough to give me a copy to give away on this blog, so if you leave a comment you could be the lucky winner of a book! Digital activism is defined by the Meta-Activism Project as “the practice of using digital technology for political and social change.&# 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Nonprofit Use #2: Sharing Knowledge/Resources As Community of Practice Hashtags can create an ad hoc community of practice or a channel for people in a field to informally share resources or conversation. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible. We don't have to convince them that it's their museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting. Mena got angry at the comments because they were not so civil - particularly those from Ben MetCalfe who Mena called out publically. Warning she says the F-word on the clip.)

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

During this simple, ten-minute activity, we curated our own experience by practicing “high levels of noticing” and by investigating museum signage on the wall and online. It’s made the museum experiences I facilitate more enjoyable, longer-lasting, and much more meaningful.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop. Really interesting. No visible bylines.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. future, you can also see the passion of different groups that feel underrepresented or unheard in the evaluation comments. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. Communities of practice theory.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. well, you know.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

And for most institutions there's no practical solution to the problem. I'm curious to hear what you think works and doesn't as well and I hope you'll share your experiences in the comments. This creates a dependency where visitors only experience the communal relationship if it is facilitated by staff.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

The gym staff aren’t offering instruction or serving as users’ partners; instead, they facilitate connections among the users. This can be a wipeboard at the front—although it’s not entirely practical (or likely) in a winding museum space to have visitors trolling the halls, calling out the names of those listed on the board.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

Joe Heimlich, the VSA conference program chair, explained that once the program committee settled on the theme of “Theory, Practice, and Conversations,” they decided to try to live up to the theme by focusing the whole conference around conversations. Why are they doing this? At each table there will be an envelope with questions inside.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Bloggers frequently link to and comment on other blogs, creating the type of immediate connection one would have in a conversation. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs.

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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. It's also standard practice in community arts programs. We certainly did the latter but only learned about the importance of the former late in the process.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor. It's like following blog comments.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. Introduce yourself if you haven’t, say hi, but ask questions, you know, leave comments. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I could practically teaching this class. I’ve got 1:00 Eastern.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

It’s open for comments and feedback right now – or “applause.” Storytelling and Knowledge Transfer :: sharing innovations, lessons learned, fail stories, and emerging best practices. Innovation Incubation :: piloting new ways of working, from practices to technologies. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments and add your own voice to the debate. We share an abiding interest in exploring the community-enhancing roles of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs), especially in terms of the practice of hospitality and service within the institution. People will not always do the right thing.

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