Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

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." s environment and shift focus as needed to salient. " He describes what Ian observed what happened with his youth audience.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

Foundations also demonstrated their willingness to support experimentation and learning by actively listening to grantees and communities; giving them more visibility; amplifying grantees’ voices; connecting more with the lived experiences of their grantees and community members; and making their grantmaking more participatory. .

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Candid

JULY 5, 2022

We are paying attention to issues of equity and social justice; participatory grantmaking; and streamlining applications and reporting.” . “We We are watching the rate of inflation as rate hikes are forecasted and generally watching the investment environment.” . “We Federal legislation impacting DAF and giving incentives” . “We

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking? Whether organizations start with a single grant program or incorporate a participatory approach across all their funding, there are a variety of ways to practice participatory grantmaking. And several ways not to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment. Reflection: As a trainer and facilitator, I am constantly learning and testing new facilitation and training techniques. To reflect, you need to incorporate experimentation, creativity, and learning into the way you work.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

collaborations about ways to use, deploy, develop and promote mobile technology in health, advocacy, economic development, environment, human rights, citizen media, to name a few areas. Participatory and interactive. Each event includes. interactive discussions. hands-on-demos. Is open to anyone with passion and interest in the topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

SL will take longer to gel into a cohesive environment that has a purpose and a following than the explosive growth experienced by WOW. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. ve found the environment elaborately constructed but humanly forbidding. t think at this time that SL wants to be a WOW.

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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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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

One study finds millennials care about environment, education and health. When the individual is made aware of the social issue for the first time in an impulsive environment, it cues us to do something, but not necessarily do too much – yet. However, answering this question is always tricky as survey data is inconsistent.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 9, 2017

But Ultra-red reminded me that many environments function as distortion machines. Or should they opt out, find friendlier environments, and stop participating in discriminatory spaces? It reenergized me about focusing my limited time, energy, and creativity on the participatory opportunities that fuel me and my dreams.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. They maintain a creative autonomy and intimate relation with the museum and its collection that empowers them to play with and transform the visual environment.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Second Life — TechSoup formed the Nonprofit Commons five years ago as a virtual community of nonprofits, thriving and building complex 3D interactive environments and hosting regular meetings with streaming media and a wide variety of participatory options.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2013

These are unpaid, part-time internships in which you will make a significant contribution to our work, and at the same time, learn a heck of a lot about participatory design and community engagement. Participatory Performing Artist-in-Residence program. and I have always wanted to find ways to invite them in.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2013

In other words, the more constrained the game environment, the less agency the player has. institutional change relationships participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences game visitors' In his talk, Wright said one thing that really stood out: Game players have a negotiated agency that is determined by how the game is designed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Designing for serendipity: Creating environments, in person and online, where helpful connections can form. We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory. These themes include: 1. Catalyzing mutual support: Helping people directly help each other.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. We put couches and a coffee table in the room to entice visitors to spend time with the works and create a comfortable environment. We Blur Digital and Real-World Experiences The biggest difference between Oh Snap!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Foundation Review (Vol 5:3) Makes the case that most foundation strategies are unfolding in complex and dynamic environments, and foundations need a more committed approach to learning and strategic adaptation.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. We worked with a social scientist studying the power of being able to walk away from an uncooperative environment to develop Experimonth: Freeloader , a public-goods game where players decide whether to invest in their group or freeload.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. How much has our environment, culture, or information overload changed? I remember her community of clocks project -- she facilitated content creation from schools around the world on the theme of clocks.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

The Facebook group has allowed us to cheerlead for each other, make jokes, and banter in ways that don''t always happen in an intense work environment. participatory museum professional development' But on Facebook, it becomes a funny thing to comment on and connect with. What tools do you use to stay connected behind-the-scenes?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Ever wish for a low-cost, energizing professional development experience where you can work intensely with diverse colleagues in a risk-tolerant environment? We're working with participatory online artist Ze Frank on an exhibition at the MAH this winter that features the missions, creations, and explorations of his current web series, A Show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

We are asked to do it in controlled environments. It is my hope, my prayer that I can use these god given communication skills, our not so new world of participatory media, and make green something so compelling that it cannot help but become an all powerful movement. Yes, that difficult word, BUT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

She also talks about listening in layers and scanning environment. Participatory engagement invites people to answer a particular question or comment on a post. .” Leaders don’t need to read everything, but they should follow and listen to other people read everything and curate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2006

The article provides a good primer and illustrates various genres of machinima created in different gaming environments. The article describes how the genre is linked to participatory/DIY culture. I'm glad that I didn't post these right away because in a completely unrelated circumstance, I ran into Robin Good's piece on Machinima.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Elsewhere’s Living Museum, open daily, offers audiences (average 300/week) an exploratory environment to play within and a site where creative practice is made public and the artwork and museum are themselves in a constant state of flux. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

starts to point toward the more collaborative environments that are being termed "social media" these days. And indeed, we find VRM being discussed on sites like "The Social Customer" blog by Christopher Carfi, which is trying to evolve models of customer service and marketing that assume a more empowered and participatory customer base.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2012

This is only going to become a bigger issue for us as we invite in new audiences and incorporate more participatory experiences throughout the museum. If you want to create a friendly, welcoming environment AND protect objects, what do you do? Maybe there are design solutions that introduce barriers in less stark ways than casework.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. How can we improve on these models to becomes sites for participatory giving? Ideas participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

This isn't surprising: when the term "social object" was coined in the online environment , the whole point was that people socialize around specific objects, images, or ideas, not general topics or interests. Read about the Human Library in chapter 3 of The Participatory Museum by searching that term here.)

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''ve never worked in such a supportive, energized, active environment. Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. In any work environments, there are things that we fix right away, and then there are other things that are just a bit too tricky or unpleasant. We work hard to name and build our culture in many ways.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. The most important aspect of designing a successful participatory platform is to intentionally, deliberately, and clearly DESIGN the platform. machines) for informal learning environments? What positive and dark outcomes could you imagine?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Over the past twenty years, the Brainerd Foundation has invested nearly $50 million in organizations working to protect the environment in the Northwest. Concept 5: New Power / Old Power Hybrid.

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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. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

Side Trip is an immersive environment full of interactive experiences that let visitors share their own stories of the 1960s, make their own rock posters, and explore the music and vibe of the time. There are two aspects of Side Trip that really stand out: the immersive environment and the design of the interactives.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

There’s a thriving debate about the role computers should play in children’s museums, with many professionals sounding the alarm about the negative impact of exchanging screen time for tactile environments. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning. Who is going to create and lead this place?

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