Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This project wove together many different participatory threads. This project deepened our commitment to creating platforms that empower partners. We'd love to see this model evolve and grow. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process. You can download it for free right now. What did we learn?

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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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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 The new platform and the new tools are all about communities. 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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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. Do share your thoughts.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. Projects participatory museum. I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person.

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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. Between the giant squid brainstorming and experimentation, I gave a talk to the larger Smithsonian Institution about multi-platform museum experiences. It's like an organizational game of madlibs.

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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? Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. Are you looking for an innovative no-tech way to engage visitors in civic dialogue? A way to bring people on opposite sides of an issue to a fruitful, positive meeting place?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org. But, turns out, they do,” Sullivan said.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

A year ago, I wrote about the potential of Twitter as a platform-agnostic service; you can send and receive tweets on the web, on your phone as text messages, on instant message clients, and on a variety of downloadable applications (like Twitterific , which I use for the Mac). If I told you I'd created a participatory website in which 0.3%

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Today, both of these models are threatened, and within 50 years they will no longer be sustainable. Why are our current models failing? We need to stop focusing on protecting our stuff and start creating new physical analogs to these virtual tools—platforms for people to engage with our content on their own terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

The research was conducted entirely online, using a multi-media platform and over Internet. whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork. A premise for this work is that we need to be better at working collaboratively???whether

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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. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors.

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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. Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

They model impersonal, businesslike relationships between the institution and the people who care about it the most. Support and enhance relationships through consistent multi-platform engagement. These lists do not convey the passion that these people feel for the organization. We hang out.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

And in a world where visitors want to create, remix, and interpret content messages on their own, museums can assume a new role of authority as "platforms" for those creations and recombinations. The platform is what's important. It's a framework that museums can (and should) control, and there's power in platform management.

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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 Tech Virtual was launched as a two-platform system: a website and a Second Life island. Level the playing field or tip it in their favor.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

And with so many social fundraising platforms available, each with slightly different features, a unique personality, and selling point, how do you choose the one that's right for you. In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

This conference will be the platform for improving public awareness and receptivity to direct and interactive market driven philanthropy. The Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship is the premier international platform for advancing entrepreneurial approaches and solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Fundraising.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

A new wave of digital participation platforms can help. Platforms such as Decidim , Citizen Lab , and Your Priorities can effectively engage communities throughout the process of making budget, policy, and funding decisions. Thousands of government institutions are already using digital participation platforms.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Like the Living Library project , the advice booth was a platform that connected strangers with strangers--not just staff with strangers. The whole exhibit modeled the potential for someone to respond to your query, and as it grew, the sense that you would be responded to and validated grew as well.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 20, 2007

I believe that, as with basic human needs, experience design in museums (and for other content platforms) can occur on many levels, and that it is hard to achieve the highest level without satisfying, or at least understanding, those that come before it. Ideas design participatory museum interactives. You look at an artifact.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The addition of a digital platform to the local paper currency will make BerkShares more accessible for users while broadening access for merchants. Given the lack of established models, there will undoubtedly be some unanticipated curves ahead. Of course, this is an experiment, and the proof of concept remains in the execution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. They identify ways the new power will impact funding and change philanthropy : Peer-to-peer giving, lending, and investing models effectively reduce dependence on traditional institutions. Once gained, it is jealously guarded, and the powerful have a substantial store of it to spend.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

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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

AUGUST 6, 2019

I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. You gave me support as I struggled to lead a museum through a participatory rebirth. is about participation, but I never fully succeeded in making it participatory. For Seema, a gift of a platform.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

It is crucial that LAMs be considered public civic spaces, but Oldenburg's model leaves a lot to be desired. Nina's research keeps finding that the right kind of constraints work to produce a better participatory museum experience. We want to be platforms for building relationships around a central core. Alternatives?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Our collective understanding and savviness about the power online platforms wield--for good and ill--has greatly increased since 2008. The platform is what's important. With no further ado, enjoy this post. Me: "Sort of." Power is attractive.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning. In this model, rather than trying to answer a set of broad questions, you look at the spectrum of viable conditions and extrapolate useful strategies from those.

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