Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Everyone was asked to share five words or “hash tags&# on sticky notes and place them on the wall. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). They also tag and analyze responses.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. Tags: climatechange energy sxsw events. Low barrier to entry. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. Many channels, both personal and professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio. Technorati Tags: VECoP re asking people to bring what they learn here back to their own communities, and make a difference. Summary and related links from the visit Henry Jenkins made to SL, along. with audio archive of session can be found here.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Tags: ROI. Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others. Tags: movement building. Movements involve people, not Marketing, PR, Comms, Public Affairs, etc.,

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. The community is facilitated or sparkplugged by Chris Locke. Content is also being added to the site through streams of aggregated content through the net2 tag. This site, and the Net??

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JULY 23, 2009

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. About NetSquared.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Third places facilitate engagement among patrons, whereas museums and libraries deliver services to patrons. Third places are more participatory and offer fewer basic amenities than most cultural institutions provide. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place. The cultural service model is antithetical to the third place.

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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. Tags: participatory museum professional development. Side note: three times as many educators filled out surveys than any of the other groups.)

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. well, you know.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

This relationship bit helped me think about how different kinds of folks will be involved with a highly participatory, community-co-created project in the long-term. Ultimately, the workshop facilitator noted that many people who start social ventures choose their legal structure based on discussions with funders.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

It's also a reason that people will game with strangers; in that case, the games' rules form the partial barrier that facilitates social interaction. Ideas participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences visitors. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 But I'm not so sure of this. How do you interpret the Giant Dipper hand slapping?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

The point of this experiment is to play with design conditions that support both facilitated and unfacilitated engagement with strangers. I believe that focusing specifically on the social capacity of an object, rather than its content or interpretation, yields new design techniques for museum exhibits and other participatory spaces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Tags: backchannel.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

But all of us have experienced more informal, less well-facilitated forms of discourse. Yes, there may be sites for discourse in our lives, but they are not well-facilitated and are more often seen as undesirable disturbances--the kinds of incidences to lead us to look away from strangers on the street.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. Tags: web2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

I first learned about this technique from Sam Kaner''s excellent book, Facilitator''s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. Tag Team the Facilitation. To me, this is analogous to the benefits of having multiple staff members engaged with community partners on participatory projects. Yes, it can be inefficient.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. Use the authority of the museum to facilitate exchange of phone numbers between strangers?"

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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. Tags: participatory museum visitors. My climbing gym addresses this obstacle with a wipeboard near the front that reads: “Write your name here if you need a partner.” What other ideas are out there?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

A person is randomly designated as the facilitator for a 15 minute discussion on each of the topics in the envelope. It will be interesting to see how people react to the conference and whether they feel valued or put upon in the participatory sessions. Tags: professional development. Are you headed to Houston?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory. It's messy.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

And in an international city like Amsterdam, in a museum focused on one girl's extreme story that has touched the whole world, it seems to me there is an enormous opportunity to go to the next level and facilitate cross-cultural discussion. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum interactives.

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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

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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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. Tags: exhibition Unusual Projects and Influences. Was it the gritty urban setting? The prizes? This bore out at Artprize.

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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. 2) Networks are participatory. Tags: Colbert Report Full Episodes , Political Humor & Satire Blog , Video Archive. The Colbert Report. To Be Successful You Need both A Network Mindset and Networking Tools.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I wouldn't be the person I am today, one who is genuinely interested in others' opinions and jumps into participatory museum experiences, if not for my time on the museum floor in the magic vest. Tags: Talking to Strangers. What if we offered all visitors coats, vests, hats, etc. Why does talking to strangers matter?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

As she moves through the museum, she uses a web-based application to tag her favorite exhibits, or perhaps she texts a rating for each exhibit to SMS short codes posted at the bottom of each label. The Race exhibit served as a facilitation of potential dialogue based on a very simple finger-based exchange.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

One of the best articles in the Museums and Social Issues journal on civic discourse, The Hard Work of True Listening , is about the need for lecturers and program leaders to be facilitators of dialogue, not just time-keepers and content providers. Tags: programs participatory museum comfort.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

According to Shirky, the three elements for success for a open, participatory projects online are: 1. Tags: community issues collaboration innovation localcommunities shirky socialbysocial video. of other projects. It’s a great video, and only around 10 minutes long - watch it.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

We need to set up spaces in which doing the right thing--welcoming all kinds of people--is easy, facilitated and enforced. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place guestpost.

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