Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Games — both digital and analog — provide a great opportunity for inviting players to interact with a real-world causes and societal challenges. government and encouraging participatory democracy. Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) is a critically acclaimed video game and interactive record of Alaskan Native culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. This is where our challenge lies – to massively scale the production of high quality, low-cost children’s books for a massively multi-lingual and multi-cultural market.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

When I worked briefly with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative to conceptualize a mobile phone-based game to connect visitors to the park to its cultural institutions and history, I knew Ken would be the perfect person to make it happen. It has a 800-number on it (877-737-3132) and a three-digit ID number (131). And widely accessible.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

But even as the phenomenon continues to swell, the effort to maintain an active social life on the Web is taking its toll. She's not the only one out there, the Digital Youth Research group is looking at kids informal learning with digital media and of course, Danah Boyd ). Some have grown tired of what once was novel.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. Third, you need to align your idea with institutional culture. This may sound obvious and natural, but it’s easy to underestimate the power of institutional culture. You can see or download my slides and you can watch the video of the talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. These programs involved cultural, educational and training efforts that used interactive theater and storytelling.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Discover how-to details and strategies for fast, measurable digital marketing success. and discover how to reach your audiences more directly through social and digital media, while still landing placements through the national press or your local newspapers and broadcast stations. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

On Spot.us, we're trying to bring in a culture of transparency in journalism, where we say, "Invite the public into the reporting from day one. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. Again, that is very different from the traditional culture of journalism and journalists.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Digital Media and Learning Conference. Digital Media and Learning Conference. Digital Media and Learning Hub / Irvine, CA / $175. Web of Change events are where progressive organizers and digital strategists come to up their game. General / #WHATIFConference / @ImpactFoundary. Marketing & Communications. 11/18/2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. Use and application of digital tools is a tactical concern– important, but not the endpoint.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Museums will always need to retain some powers to manage the preservation of objects, to wield IP controls properly, and to manage the digital reproduction and dissemination of content. With no further ado, enjoy this post.

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