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. What will be the impact of technology on civic engagement? These themes include: 1.

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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. Technology Tools Worth Checking Out web2.0 participatory museum professional development' But on Facebook, it becomes a funny thing to comment on and connect with.

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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. I met many new people and learned a lot about technology and community, but the learning wasn''t the point, enjoying the resolutions was. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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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. We are asked to master ever evolving technologies. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

Technology has altered the way to connect and cultivate professional relationships and it is also transforming how leaders lead. She also talks about listening in layers and scanning environment. Participatory engagement invites people to answer a particular question or comment on a post.

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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. Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy. New Technology for New Power Movements.

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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 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 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was drastically different from the Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN’s flagship event that has over 2,000 attendees, dozens of tracks and hundreds of panels, big parties, a trade show, and all the things you would expect from a traditional conference.

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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. It wasn’t expensive to construct, it doesn’t rely on artifacts, and the interactives integrate technology in a low-key, magical way.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning. Consider other family-oriented products: toys, media, schools.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

They offered immersive, powerful environments. At Riverside, I was impressed by the consistent integration of community voices in label text, and the very human take on a genre (transportation) that is often presented strictly in terms of technology and provenance. Both institutions made good use of their very different spaces.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. We all felt like the process was too alien to our work environments, too hard to sell, too hard to integrate. Recently, I've been wrestling a lot with the relationship between innovation and impact.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. I've only visited about 0.01% of the institutions out there and I suspect that the other 99.99% includes some real gems.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. technology and more focus on engaging with communities.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. In this way, the MP3 experiment is an example of the ways that technological barriers can become benefits by mediating otherwise uncomfortable interactions. The MP3 experiment is an exercise in following instructions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

April 5 is the first day of a class I’m teaching called Social Technology, in which we are focusing on designing an exhibition that features social objects , that is, exhibits or artifacts that inspire interpersonal dialogue. You have to actually design something—a sign, an incident, an object, an environment.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

The USHMM pledge wall is notable for its blending of digital and analog technologies. The digital world doesn't seem "real" in the same way that pen and paper does, and in the context of a physical, built environment like an exhibit, a post-it can often feel more appropriate than a computer screen. Which brings us back to USHMM.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

In the other case, the institution was unwilling to engage in the conversational environment and ended up isolated, fueling the fire. This is why I always say that participatory tools are about relationships, not technology. Sadly, it was the second story that was about a museum. Let’s start there.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 3, 2009

The more museums can be porous to the outdoor environment and continuous with other neighborhood venues and businesses, the more easily people can flow into them as part of their day. Tags: participatory museum inclusion comfort. Open your doors really wide. Lots of museums look like fortresses against the streetscape.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

And by choosing a cloud-based grants management system, those people can access that information from anywhere, such as while they are on site visits or working in a hybrid or remote environment. Because technology will change as will the needs of your community, your grantmaking will likely need to evolve as well.

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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. They have a magazine called Race, Poverty and Environment Magazin e. I was always thinking, how could a freelancer pitch the world?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. Consider Beth Kanter's blog about non-profits and technology , which is read by about 25,000 people per month. They prove that the conversation is two-way. So when people ask, "Why don't more people comment?," it gets me excited.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The Brooklyn Museum of Art is a great example of a museum really embracing these environments for community-building purposes. In this way, Tree of Promise takes a quick participatory in-museum experience—writing down a promise—and provides a supportive platform on which users can cultivate and substantiate that action.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

4 Interro-bang Since the dawn of the YouTube and Twitter age, we've seen people do some amazing things with this technology. 2 Participatory Chinatown In this game, you're transported to Boston's Chinatown to view the development of new areas through the perspective of the varied citizens that make up their corner of the city.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. You can view and download all the slides here.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Deconstructing the Social Experience As a designer of participatory experiences, my biggest question about Artprize is what made all these conversations and experiences happen in the first place. I was too enamored of the social experience to care about expressing preferences in a technological, non-conversational way. The prizes?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. library, and nonprofit environments is mainly due to the benefits offered. the work of copyright holders. True adoption of Web2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2007

It doesn't matter if you are creating a didactic diorama or a participatory smorgasborg if the experience is fundamentally about your desires rather than visitors'. Technology has filled this gap where we feel more comfortable pursuing the slimmest glimmer of hope from a safe place rather than opening ourselves up to social risk.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. These third-party applications provide a ready-made environment for comment cards to become more useful and usable to visitors and staff alike. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out marketing.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. We had 40 "emerging technology" professionals on the team, and we couldn't sufficiently self-motivate to do our work on the wiki instead of an antiquated email list. over email.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. They want to make sure that they’re creating a safe environment, right? Our buddy, Maureen Wallbeoff is going to talk about how to get some ROI out of your technology investment. How do we do this well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.” We seek to identify, test, and co-create new ways of engaging individuals more deeply to protect the environment and promote peace.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

In a world where expediency and relationships are valued over an excess of verbiage and data, grants software — whether on-premises or hosted in a cloud environment — must support these new values and ways of working: Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) functionality will become even more critical in the mission to expedite grants.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. There is money in traditional education, lots more than what MacArthur and other foundations are starting to offer for alternative learning environments. That goal isn't based on technology or social media. I know the practical answers.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

Suzanne Fischer is Curator of Technology at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI, and Eric Johnson is a librarian and New Media Specialist at Monticello in Charlottesville, VA. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience.

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