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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 1, 2009
When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 8, 2013
Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” Bell was on networked TV apologizing.
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Museum 2.0
MARCH 16, 2009
When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ).
Museum 2.0
OCTOBER 15, 2009
Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The program operates like a camp that is co-led by the teens involved.
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?
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 18, 2008
People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. Talk to the folks at Instructables. Use online search tools like Technorati, Google blog search, and searches on individual networking sites to quantify the output of these events.
Museum 2.0
DECEMBER 2, 2008
They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. If you do indeed want to cultivate a community discussion, start with a blog "family" to fuel the blog, or, better yet, consider another venue like Twitter or a social network that is a more conducive environment to active participation among strangers.
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