Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

ve created something that has some impact in the culture. Technorati Tags: VECoP So, I asked, "There has been a lot of criticism about Second Life lately, do you think we're wasting our time and money? Is it just a fad?" " I don???t t think its a fad. s far fewer numbers at any given time using te space.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Reduced operating costs, increased productivity, use less energy and water; improved health due to improved air quality; reduced environmental impact. “Social media is just PR with new tools. Tags: climatechange energy sxsw events. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. Such participatory activities would be seen as a waste of time. This sounds ridiculous, but it’s the way many museums approach participatory projects. participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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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. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Key is a participatory development process. The map illustrating this post was developed by a couple of dozen people in Guatemala from their mental models, to support CARE to vastly enhance its impact. A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

When organizations share imagery from the work that they do, it not only conveys a better understanding of the organization's work and impact, but it leverages a visual element that can be memorable and long-lasting. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. As the great non profit techy Yoda would say, "Do or do not. There is no try.".

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

When organizations share imagery from the work that they do, it not only conveys a better understanding of the organization's work and impact, but it leverages a visual element that can be memorable and long-lasting. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. As the great non profit techy Yoda would say, "Do or do not. There is no try.".

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. set up any participatory elements and organize the opening, which occurred the following Friday or Saturday. To help fill in the blanks, I often added participatory pieces which allowed the visitors to take an active role. I was shocked.and very happy.

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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

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. I started my blog as a test bed for theories I have about blogging and it's growing impact. Tell me about your experience with tagging. Why do you tag? Tagging is a small part of that.

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NTEN

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. Second Place: $15,000.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization. There are also lots of other great papers from the conference; my favorites so far are the evaluation report on the impact of the Wolfquest game and conversational learning on the Science Buzz blog.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences. Tags: exhibition web2.0 This makes sense.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. Pointing advertises and spreads the exhibit’s impact. Tags: design participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. While these participants had done the hard work of capturing the images, it was up to the institutions to validate, tag, caption, and prepare them for Wikipedia's use. Tags: web2.0 Image verification was a Herculean effort. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

Recently, I've been wrestling a lot with the relationship between innovation and impact. I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. Which has more impact on your actual daily practice? And what distinguishes the former from the latter?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Also, how people feel at the beginning and end of a workshop significantly impacts how they feel about the overall event.

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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. Tags: children's museums.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. Tags: marketing usercontent visitors. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors. There are two parts to this.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Each design choice impacts the amount of thought and efforts visitors will put into their responses and the extent to which they will stay on-topic or proactively build on other visitors' arguments. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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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. Tags: business models. A company in which program recipients are involved with governance suggests a community board model.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

It was clear that their publicity had more impact with our audience than our tweeting and Flickr posts. Projects participatory museum. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 The contribution of the positive support from our local paper, the Worcester Evening News, cannot be underestimated.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

By the way, the Brooklyn team just won the Groundswell award for social impact , which is sort of like winning an Oscar for social media.) Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague. There is funding.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

I am recommending the transcript of Clay Shirky's speech about Gin, Television, and Social Surplus , in which he argues that the next twenty years will be marked by people's slow, incremental, and astoundingly impactful awakening from being passive consumers (of TV) to partly active content creators. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 But one page!

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Recently, Freedom Fone was adapted by two farm radio stations through the African Radio Research Initiative , a 42-month project, the aim of which was to assess the effectiveness and impact of farm radio in many parts of Africa. . Tags: Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN. The group used similar sounding numbers for each of the networks.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

They have direct personal impact. Tags: personalization participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. The presumption on the part of museums is that rating things is a fun activity onto itself and that's why people use them on Netflix and other sites. But they aren't just fun ways to express yourself.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

But if you can find communities with a tight content fit to yours, a robust audience, and a low number of "first responders," you can make a major impact commenting in those arenas. marketing participatory museum. Tags: web2.0 How can you find the right places to respond? First, find yourself.

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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. Economic Impacts.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

How will it impact the other services and roles museums represent in contemporary society? Tags: participatory museum. There were also plenty of unresolved questions. What role should museums play in promoting discourse? What services or opportunities should we offer to staff and to visitors to engage in civic grappling?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I want to share a few fabulous evaluation and research studies that have greatly informed my work (and specifically, the development of The Participatory Museum , which is going to the printer this weekend). The Catalyst for Change social impact study from the Glasgow Open Museum. Dialogue in the Dark visitor and guide impact studies.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

This isn't all about numbers; some communities are small but can have huge positive impact. Projects participatory museum. Tags: web2.0 The bigger question is this: are the communities that come in contributing positively to the image, visitation, and online messages around your institution? marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2010

This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Next week, part 2 will focus on participants' experiences.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

The value of that content is strongly impacted by the number of active users (social benefit), and there is some collective action around the development of wikipedia articles. Ideas design participatory museum interactives. Tags: web2.0 Of course, there are distinctions to be made among different kinds of venues.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

The exhibition uses the stories of three remarkable children in history as a launching point for a platform on which kids and families can make “promises” for how they will impact or change the world. Tags: exhibition web2.0 Note that even the content of this exhibition is focused on 2.0-style One for the toolkit. Projects.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

" Monitoring and Evaluation NEWS » Most Significant Change (MSC) – "The most significant change (MSC) technique is a form of participatory monitoring and evaluation. It is participatory because many project stakeholders are involved both in deciding the sorts of change to be recorded and in analysing the data.

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