Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations. The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

An advisory group and planning group gave crucial input about the strategy and tactics for this event. Both groups can help by: . Creating clear definitions of key terms pertaining to data and evaluation. Studying (and implementing) community-based participatory research methods. __.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. In this field, we are definitely low on praise and even lower on profit. Surprises are those moments where you often hear unrelated social groups chatting. Awards can be incredibly gratifying.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The man is artist Rocky Lewycky , whose work is part of a group show of visual artists who have won a prestigious regional fellowship. Definitely. I''ve seen participatory artworks that lay untouched by visitors because the invitation to participate is not explicit enough. He takes a crowbar out of a Swiss Army backpack.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory. The scribe should only interact with the lead facilitator, not the group. Orienting the Group.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In the co-option model, the institution turns over a portion of its facilities and resources to support programs developed and implemented by external public groups.

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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. There is another, surprising group that is much less likely to participate in dialogue with strangers: teenagers. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising. Coupling a video with group fundraising on the web has been evolving in the last two or three months. I don't know what I mean yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.”

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I was intrigued and curious to learn more, but also skeptical of the merits of an outside group running roughshod in The Met. As you stand amongst the portraits, share your tale of deception, love, mystery, and intrigue with the rest of the group. We have a specific opening activity to bring the group together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. 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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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

sessions and I'm in the process of organizing a third, an affinity group meeting! A definition of screencasting, with real examples. 3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. Top Three Takeaways. Overview of the tools needed.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

While for me meandering was mostly pleasurable, if I were there with a particular goal or a group of people, I would have been stressed out. This is definitely an unfinished idea--we only spent an hour on this experiment. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. Want to take it to the next level? What would you do?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. In this way, Click is a powerful example of the "venue as content platform" definition of 2.0. What is Click?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

At Radio Maria, Sullivan and the group used the IVR very simply, almost as a “glorified voicemail service.” The group created a special jingle and message to promote the competition. The group used similar sounding numbers for each of the networks. Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania. Listen to the jingle here.) .

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I think museum visitors are ready and eager for museums to catch up to retail and the forprofit world and recognize them as individuals rather than homogeneous groups. We started with focus groups with current and prospective members, asking about their interests and what kinds of experiences they would really value as part of membership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Another theme of web2.o

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

While I'm not sure I'd recommend the workshop (it was quite expensive for what I received), I definitely benefited from the format. This relationship bit helped me think about how different kinds of folks will be involved with a highly participatory, community-co-created project in the long-term. The good news? The bad news?

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Definitely, something that I’ve heard from some nonprofit leaders. So every time I teach or present, I like to do group agreements. I’m going to do a quick, sort of quick definition. But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning. Last one wasn’t good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. That was actually a story that we did with a group called Urban Habitat. Yes, definitely. I mean, they're stark contrasts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

She is also saying that virtual worlds are not for everyone which is definitely true. It is VERY well suited for connecting people from physically distant spaces for shared learning, communication and group participation. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. Now that Clay???s way to the future?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Many museums have been experimenting in these spaces by creating institutional profiles, museum affinity groups, and connecting with visitors and other museum professionals individually. But for some institutions or projects, being under a big tent that includes millions of people, groups, and activities is not appropriate.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Next week, part 2 will focus on participants' experiences.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a good group. Steven: I definitely will. . So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. So I wanted you to just think about that, how your group addresses resources. Steven: Yeah. I’m telling you. Julie: I’m going to ask you. Julie: I’m happy to address it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Let's say I'm leading a youth group or course about nutrition and being healthy for at-risk youth. When you take the time to comment on a post, you become part of the blogger's community and if you are writing a blog, they will most definitely read your post and perhaps become a reader of your blog. Recipe Swamp Group.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

This is especially useful in exhibitions or areas with multiple different talkbacks; it allows us to do A/B comparisons across talkbacks and learn which of our designs worked best (presumably, for the same group of visitors). They took awhile to make, though--this was definitely the longest talkback activity.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. Jun 22- 24.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. Act 2: Definitions. s bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Code for America helps governments become more connected, participatory, and more Lean through new opportunities for public service. It’s no wonder why Lean is increasingly being adopted in the non-profit sector. Ashley Meyers, Code For America (Development and Engagement Manager).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

A few weeks ago, a group of San Francisco-based writers had a crazy idea: they would make a magazine in 48 hours. Oh, and they wanted it to be participatory. I talked with Sarah Rich , one of the project’s instigators and staff members, to learn more about 48 Hour Magazine and its implications for other participatory media projects.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience. Doubleday recommended that libraries offer lectures, dramatic readings, and wireless listening groups--but then display books related to the topics on offer. In the 1930s, W.E.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

While Louise noted that social inclusion, audience development, and democratization of art were definitely raised, many of the artists cited these as secondary reasons for co-creative practice. She also notes that this goal helps performing arts groups produce higher-quality experiences for audiences, participants, and stakeholders alike.

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