Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I used my holiday break as an opportunity for a brief digital detox and time for family, travel and fun. I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2018!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

" Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge. " Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. Six years later, it looks like Dd hasn't strayed far from its roots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It can be uncomfortable to admit, but many web designers, myself included, first learned about digital accessibility as a regulation. Once everyone had to rely on digital products and services in entirely new ways, a collective realization spread that if we rely on technology and that technology fails, we can’t do our jobs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. Some notes from the white paper, I'm still digesting it (not being a digital native, I had to print it out).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. We were asked to reflect on how the objective represents Women’s Leadership and to find a partner to discuss our observations and get to know each other. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The summit will be an opportunity for deeper peer learning for nonprofit change makers in three theme areas: digital strategy , impact leadership , and the future of technology. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

One of my best sources is, of course, Andy Carvin's digital divide category on his blog. The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. The Digital Operations Center is one response to this scaling challenge. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” .” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Los Angeles, California: Digital Inclusion. Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. What points of connection (common interests) did you hear or see?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The staff was fired, the digital projects divvied out to other institutions, the plans for the physical museum shelved. The early participatory projects are terrific. What are we to make of the difference between what INNL planned for the physical site and what it created in the digital and distributed world?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

The USHMM pledge wall is notable for its blending of digital and analog technologies. Rather than requiring visitors to key in their pledges via a keyboard, visitors scrawl their promises on special digital paper with pens. Why require visitors to hand-write their pledges rather than keying them in on a keyboard?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2012

The team developed some highly innovative digital projects and approaches to history. book club for three reasons: The experimental projects of this museum-in-process included some of the most innovative participatory initiatives I've ever seen, especially in a discipline--history--that is often staid. What happened?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

This was reflected again in a great encounter I had at the Walter's Art Museum later in the weekend, when a silver-haired, well-coiffed lady (the perfect image of a traditional museum goer) told me "I get so annoyed by how quiet museums are. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. Want to take it to the next level?

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Marginalized populations lack access to digital technology yet aspire to participate meaningfully in the digital public sphere. Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible. The project's implementation keeps changing, and I can't decide whether it is getting better or just different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

The article goes on to point that while the novelty is wearing off for some social media consumers (aka "younger people" or what has been dubbed "digital natives"), it doesn't necessarily mean that people will stop using them alltogether. What does a "listening and participatory" culture in a nonprofit look like?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. All of these have gone through a series of movements in the last 30 years reflecting cultural shifts and expectations.

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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. What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? People bonded over all kinds of skills, from helping digitize collections to performing outcome assessments to strategizing about new programs.

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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. whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork.

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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. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Most free social networks include advertising that may not reflect museum mission. At the kiosks, children can make a promise, which floats up into the tree as a digital leaf. Particularly for children's museums, protecting users in a museum-controlled space is a premium. freedom from advertising. exclusivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. The best approach is to learn blogging is to create a personal professional development blog - a blog you use to write reflections and learnings about your subject area or personal learning goals. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Day 3, Mary Joyce will lead a workshop on digital activism using the Story of Electronics , an environmental-themed short film, as a case study and jumping off point for a workshop exercise to create a digital campaign. 2) Networks are participatory. 4) Networks are a reflection of where the world is going.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” They are the reflection of a larger trend of individuals interested in fundraising, organizing, and engaging on their own terms. With only two digital staffers the campaign hosted the largest distributed political event in history with 2,700 kick-off parties in one night!

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Unlike digital networks, which have to manufacture or solicit online versions of objects around which users can rally, museums are full of objects. There are many collections-rich museums that have created ways for visitors to create their own digital collections. Gifting is a powerful participatory behavior. Not all Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. Again, these rules reflect platform control, and when the control is too heavy-handed, users get annoyed and stay away. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. and my emphatic response is YES. Content expertise matters.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I don't know if that was their original plan or a reaction to our poor use of the wiki, but it certainly didn't reflect our supposed digital chops. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Peter and I brought in two equally passionate partners, Jim Dwyer, the Pulitzer Prize winning reporter for the NY Times; and Geralyn Abinader, the former head of digital media at the American Museum of Natural History. The Innocence Project is a tremendously participatory project, with hundreds of volunteers around the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

This blog post includes some reflections about my first visit to Africa, the importance of face-to-face meetings and building relationships, and some thoughts about how some of the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit transcend boundaries. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. I don’t teach that way.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

I’d love to see someone fully imagine an institution that would be that third place, and then see how we could adjust museums and libraries to reflect those (or not). The most upsetting moment of the meeting for me was when some participants expressed a willful disregard and derision for participatory scholarship on sites like Wikipedia.

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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. Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. Again, these rules reflect platform control, and when the control is too heavy-handed, users get annoyed and stay away.

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