Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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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. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

I''d just met a local researcher and I thought she''d be a great person to talk to about it. And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. For example: We worked with a local psychologist to create an implicit associations-based game called "Smart, Hot, Honest or Not?"

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

Last week, the local newspaper did a really generous front-page story on my museum (the MAH) and the changes here over the past eight months since I started. Our team focused this year on just three things: making the museum more comfortable, hosting new participatory events, and partnering wherever possible.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. Participants who felt more confident modeled generous behavior and engaged others.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

So the Community Science Workshop model is to put a drop-in, FREE community science center in a place that is walkable to kids'' lives and schools. Our programs end up being the hub of the local science learning ecosystem--especially in communities where there isn''t a science center for miles in any direction. That taught us a lot.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

Or “I love the MAH because it is a truly participatory space where diverse groups can enjoy, express themselves, and learn from/about/with others.” Furthermore, we learned from a Latinx-focused ethnographic study that outdoor programming was particularly appealing to local Latinx families.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 They eventually became hugely successful NetSquared Locals in several countries. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2017

I attended because I'm seeking new ways to share the MAH's model and support the development of more community-centered cultural institutions around the world. I learned a ton at Skid Row School, but the lesson that still keeps me up at night is this one: when you want to scale and spread a model, you have to distill it to its essence.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. Then we started working with our local design and technology firms— Ziba Design and Fashionbuddha —and in the prototyping, it became clear we had to go another way.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

The unconference got lots of locals "in the door" who otherwise hadn't considered the museum a useful or interesting place. Projects participatory museum. Heck, it doesn't even attract the museum exhibit designers. This is the ultimate erosion of the fear threshold--use the museum for something that people are already comfortable with.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. These institutions are often more connected to their specific, local communities than more generic institutions. They are akin to local news organizations and charities. They may feature community gardens or exhibit labels in languages tailored to locals.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

After her husband’s sudden death in 1955, and with three children to raise, my grandmother grew the store, purchasing the ends of fabric bolts and ribbons from local mills, secondhand clothing, toys, dishwares, books, and an assortment of knickknacks to sell. Tags: participatory museum guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Who their role models are. Immigrant families found local leagues where they could participate and feel connected socially. When we talk about embracing participatory experiences at non-professional levels, arts professionals often get worried that the best work will get drowned out in mediocrity. Consider soccer.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

At Radio Maria, the broadcasters relied on the large number of existing listeners to promote and explain the service, including the specific local numbers to call. Another thing that Sullivan said worked well was the ability to set up multiple call-in numbers for each of the main local mobile providers in the region: Vodacom, Zain, and Tigo.

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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, Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

Yesterday, a lovely article came out in the local paper about what we're trying to do to become a thriving community hub. Ideas include combining Santa Cruz's famous love of yoga with life-drawing classes, having models incorporate yoga poses for the sake of the would-be artists. Lots of people now don't even know where the museum is.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

The lounge will be the place to meet the best and brightest socially-conscious Geekeratti at SXSW and catch some unplugged local music. While most non-profits are not known for technology, some are, and they are defying the traditional business models that drive technology.” But that's only the beginning.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

I think small museums are generally better than large ones at fostering local communities of visitors and members. When families crowd around to watch a model train traverse its course or a fountain dance in the wind, they often end up pointing things out to strangers, sharing a smile and a special moment.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. Then we started working with our local design and technology firms— Ziba Design and Fashionbuddha —and in the prototyping, it became clear we had to go another way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model. Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world. Gardner admitted that at certain points the non-linear and emergent collaborative planning process was ambiguous and frustrating.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2012

I'll also be part of two sessions on Tuesday, May 1 - one in the morning about money and business models, and one in the afternoon about prototyping and experimentation. Here's what I'd love to explore at AAM this year: Event-driven models for museums. Participatory history programming. How prevalent is this?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

and discover how to reach your audiences more directly through social and digital media, while still landing placements through the national press or your local newspapers and broadcast stations. Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday. Join us in Washington, D.C., Communications / #casemrp / @CASEAdvance. Communications.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

a local currency issuer. Then as now, the idea behind BerkShares was to galvanize residents in Pittsfield, Great Barrington, and surrounding areas to purchase more goods and services locally. The local currency could be converted into US dollars but is designed to be spent directly in the area. The experiment proved successful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The organization delivering services to people at risk and affected by trafficking, and integrates revenue streams into their service model. By implementing the Build-Measure-Learn process espoused in Lean Startup, Girl Develop It developed a course outline, materials, and funding model.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

When I work with non-professionals on exhibit design, I always require that they come up with prototype models or questions that actually answer design questions that they haven't figured out, not questions that give them what they want or already know. Many museums claim to be (or desire to be) accountable to their local communities.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Guided by an understanding that good listening is a first step towards authentic and meaningful participatory grantmaking, in 2019 CRUS began an intentional process to review its strategy and approach to grantmaking. Within the report, explore the five principles these strategies follow.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

According to Daren Brabham, crowdsourcing consultant and author of Crowdsourcing: A Model for Leveraging Online Communities , crowdsourcing is the organization of online communities to utilize their combined resources. But participatory cultures on the Internet take on a new quality, a new scale, and new capabilities.”.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

There are many different models, including The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History , The New York Met , SF Mobile Museum , and even a Pop Up Prison Museum. guestpost Museum of Art and History participatory museum' How can you take something as substantial and precious as a museum and add a pop up twist? What does this look like?

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