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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

Have Fun - Do Good

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. Tags: linklove. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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Visiting the Smithsonian On Vacation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. You had the option of emailing the photo to yourself and it came with a description as well as a mention of what to purchase in the gift shop or where to donate. Tags: Engagement smithsonian. We spent most of the day at the Smithsonian.

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Participation through Gifting: Pass It On

Museum 2.0

donation to the universe, is a gift. We've all received (and hopefully given) gifts from strangers before--the woman who lets you go to the bathroom first, the family that hands you some carnival tickets on their way out and your way in. But a gift given from one person to another, however small, feels magical.

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A Birthday Request.

Museum 2.0

My book, The Participatory Museum , has done incredibly well so far, but there's a problem: the interactive components aren't working. I can't wait to "unwrap" the stories and ideas you gift me. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum. Today, I have a request for you. Thanks in advance.

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Splashr - A Way to Make Slide Shows Out Of Flickr Photos

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the things you have to do with user-generated content -- participatory media projects is show the work to encourage others to jump in. Unfortunately, it didn't have an option for "groups" - you can only pull photos based on tags or a user. So, I went to the pool and added a unique tag to the 17 photos.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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, by asking its supporters to send pink panties to the Sri Ram Sena as Valentine’s Day gifts. Tags: ROI.

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Guest Post: One Museum's Experiment with Threaded Comment Stations

Museum 2.0

I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. This gift, however, especially convinced younger participants. Projects guestpost Book: The Participatory Museum. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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