Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. The story was that an organization had hired a consultant who scheduling meetings with staff but was not showing up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. This takes some facilitation.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above). Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

Over the next several weeks, I will be dedicating posts to these questions, and most specifically, to some of the HOWs of making museums sites of civic discourse. But all of us have experienced more informal, less well-facilitated forms of discourse. Tags: participatory museum. Museums could be in that business.

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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. Why does Ebay email you a certificate to celebrate "your first positive feedback" on their site?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

And a couple other sites that didn''t make it financially (more on that later). Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. Whereas formal organizations have a harder time facilitating a shared sense of space and events. Really interesting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

There is a lot of text on the site (this should be changing soon ), but this snippet says it best: Net?? is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. This site, and the Net?? What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Our strategy has relied upon being part of a larger mission, providing meaningful and valuable content, curating information and content for the community, using a legal framework that allows for a participatory culture and lastly, in time, providing a space for the community to assist in the mission by creating content themselves.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

Social networking sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, even ExhibitFiles are tools that allows people--strangers and friends--to connect with one another. I want in-person museum experiences to be more like experiences on social sites like Flickr, where strangers connect and form relationships around content. What makes Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

The gym staff aren’t offering instruction or serving as users’ partners; instead, they facilitate connections among the users. I’ve written before about ways social networking sites do this ; today, some concrete ideas for how museums might as well. Tags: participatory museum visitors. How could this happen?

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APRIL 7, 2023

With a system to help you facilitate application reviews , you can use your grants management software to schedule reminders for when reviews are ready to move to the next stage. Are you looking at incorporating more participatory grantmaking principles? Do you want to increase the number of grant programs you offer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. Next, consultants helped facilitate an asynchronous process involving a wide set of stakeholders using an online wiki to write and edit sections of the plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

So, don't forget to include a link back to your blog your web site. Don't forget to include a link to your web site or blog (if you have one, but wait a minute.see next step). It takes time to visit those sites and find what you want to read! and without having to consume a lot of time clicking through to each web site.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. The same thing applies to exhibits, but Second Life is a tool that facilitates making the exhibit in a more accessible way than full-scale fabrication.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. This is a perfect example of a museum using participation as a design solution.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

But places are sites for people to congregate paid for by people and planned by people. Museums can be of the place and outside the place currently; this simultaneously sited in multiple emotional locations is often an important beacon to people seeking a community they can find no where else. I might change that position slightly.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

A Networked organization is more than just the electronic infrastructure and tools that facilitate communication. When the film launched, it was already on the web site of hundreds of groups all over the world. Hundreds of advocates and allies helped create it and had a stake in it. She says it was “network-held&# resource.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Ideally, the site would flourish, and any museum educator could log in to find great chemistry, physics, and biology demos to share with their own visitors. Woody had seeded the site with about 12 demos from his own museum, but the wiki never took off. sites and don't offer traditional rewards. Great idea, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. 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.” This one is for social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2006

This is an excellent analysis of the issue of corporate control and ownership of your participatory media. Here's some of the answers: The massive popularity of sites such as YouTube , with its millions of visitors per day, is in no small part due to the ease with which it allows anyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. I facilitated a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit, covering the concepts of social culture, simplicity, and transparency.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2010

The me-to-we design stages become even more important when facilitation is not possible. Consider Flickr, the photo-sharing community site. Ideas participatory museum. What do unfacilitated me-to-we experiences look like? Not every cultural experience requires a party host (though they are always useful).

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