Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 5, 2021
Start A New Professional Journal: For as long as I can remember, I have kept a professional journal. There are many approaches to journaling and types of notebooks, but I have settled in on using a variation of the bullet journal technique and the one-sentence five-year journal.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 3, 2010
The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Now, after long last, the book is here!
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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, The First C: Content. Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media.
Tech Soup
MAY 14, 2013
which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Most of the content was (and is) user generated. Citizen journalism. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, Online social networking was just being born.
Museum 2.0
MARCH 28, 2008
Being a trusted source of information can be a barrier that keeps us from sharing content with visitors that might be more contemporary, more ambiguous, more contentious--information that may not be trusted. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 28, 2009
People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. The classic mistake of organizations is to apply the very old publishing content and messages approach to the not so new social media. How can you tell the difference? If we are successful, we’re being talked about, rather than talking.
Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 31, 2009
Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big.
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