Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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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. One of the themes that bubbled up was the role of ambient data from social media channels and I agreed to lead a discussion on: How useful is this data for foundations? They also tag and analyze responses. Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I came across two more excellent resources on this evolving topic of social media metrics and wanted to quickly summarize before I add to the link list in the wiki. Obvious attention: discussions in blogspace, comments in posts, reclarification, and continued discussion. " My slides and resources are here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Explore popular blog, searches and tags. Openness - ????A It's messy. Her points: 1.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Admirably, the Smithsonian has opened up their new media strategic planning via a public wiki. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

My interest in online interaction is very recent; last year I asked what a blog and a wiki was. " Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? I blogged a discussion on web2.0 t have a clue."

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. One more note on the wiki: while it was a community site, I felt very in control of the content. of the words on the wiki.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Several said things like, "I was curious to see how this kind of participatory, collaborative approach would work in practice."

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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. Part 3 will focus on my experience, and part 4 will discuss the self-publishing process. I wrote the plans, outlines, and multiple drafts on a public wiki that was available for review, edits, and comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

This weekend I participated in a Webinar about the book The Whuffie Factor along with author Tara Hunt where we discussed how the ideas apply to nonprofits. FLYyouthDC is creating a social media plan using the WeAreMedia wiki. Tags: Books pinko marketing relationships. It takes content, strategy and elbow grease.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. I’m using a wiki to do so, and a few intrepid generous folks have signed up to give feedback on the evolving draft. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities.

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