Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century.

Participatory 50

Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

To celebrate, I concocted an action learning experience in user generated content, the Beth 5.0 Flickr Photo Birthday Remix Contest. Ultimately, 22 remix photos were posted, slightly less than half of the people who joined. For some big picture ideas on user generated content , see this resource. The cards were amazing!

Generation 50

Generation Content Remix Reflection 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. I'm nervous. It's messy.

Remix 50

Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. While we may grudgingly acknowledge the fact that visitors create their own versions of the message around subsets of the content, we don't consciously empower visitors to redistribute their own substandard, non-authoritative messages. Content expertise matters.

Authoring 42

Authoring Platform Museum YouTube 42

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. Libraries are more customer-focused, museums, more content-focused. Museums provide the information that we deem useful or interesting.

Library 20

Library Museum Reflection Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. Content expertise matters. Content control shouldn't. Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections.

Authoring 44

Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44