Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The best participatory projects are useful. The participatory activity in question is part of the new Unfinished Business gallery, a room in which the museum engages with a contemporary issue related to the passion and work of Jane Addams and the historic Hull-House activist residents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

This is a fun meme for user=generated content -- Take a photo of yourself with sign or message related to our campaign or cause. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are! This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared. Not sure if this includes a cash prize.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In Asia, I''ve noticed museum visitors are willing--enthusiastic, even--to take photos with strangers. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere. cultural competency design inclusion participatory museum'

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2007

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. Lacking any programming skills to speak of, I've been looking at widgets and tools that put an easy interface to flickr that let you display photos. I can't figure it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

Photo by Geoff Livingston. There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. It was a photo booth that took your photo and transformed you in an early human. I’m on vacation this week and next! We spent most of the day at the Smithsonian. There was one exhibit that the kids just loved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. Photo by Glenn Hirsch. Photo by Glenn Hirsch. Her final point was that working as a network is fun!

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

This is not actually a photo from the dialogue series. We refrained from taking photos, because we wanted to foster an atmosphere of candor and comfort as grantors and grantees engaged in conversation about a difficult topic. However, it is a favorite photo from another recent Tech Networks of Boston event.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

We engaged in an exhibit together, making "one minute sculptures" and taking photos of each other. The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. DON’T make the participatory activity too narrow or difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. For instance, you can change the photo that goes with your article. This list should be with you when you are planning out your content and engagement for your social media channels. Avoid giving it all away in the headlines. Be visual. “If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. The photo above shows the “Fish Bowl” technique. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. 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.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2014

It''s not a great photo of people enjoying the museum. But on another level, the wishlist is the most participatory part of the newsletter. When she said this, I realized that what we thought of as a thrifty practicality is actually a great symbol of our participatory, inclusive ethos. It''s not what you think.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8.

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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. Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. Photos are fun. We had planned on having it be video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. In the Networked Nonprofit, Kanter and Fine show nonprofits how to harness this flexibility to pursue their mission in partnership with two billion connected citizens.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns. Looks like the last sentence got left out and wanted to make sure folks were pointed over the excellent article by Colin Delaney on Idealware on Participatory Media Tools which goes in much more detail about more tools and questions for nonprofit to consider.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2011

They planned to paint the outline of Santa Cruz County, print out photos of a series of important landmarks or icons throughout the county, and then paint those items onto the map. A participatory project is one in which visitors/users can actively contribute to make the institution better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Each of the speakers had their photo on black and white silk screen in the area outside the main room and participants could leave you notes and comments. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. It was the first time I ever gave a talk on a cat walk stage.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. One of our research volunteers, Sangye Hawke, blew me away when she posted a photo on Facebook of the board game she's developing about the restoration work we're doing at historic Evergreen Cemetery. Here's a picture of it in action. Evergreen Cemetery Board Game.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Participatory. Participatory. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Are those words you usually associate with your government? We would all likely agree that it's a shame: our government should be transparent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. Your numerical data can tell stories , but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2008

Photo by Laura Whitehead. Alexandra's slides will be posted on slideshare - but all accounts it was great participatory experience. One of the key benefits of social media is that you can actually be in two places at the same time. I wanted to attend the session by Alexandra Samuel from Social Signal about community building.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. The goals need to be front and center through the entire process, particularly when the measurement approach is more new or participatory and is designed to evolve over time. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

Among other things, I led a workshop on "social objects" --artifacts and exhibits that inspire people to point, discuss, snap photos, and generally share their experience both with friends and strangers. If an artwork or exhibit is easily emulatable, people will pose like the subjects of the piece and take photos with it.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

A colleague who''s out on maternity leave posts photos of her baby and makes everyone jealous. participatory museum professional development' People use it to share surprises in the archives, inspiring meetings with artists, dead birds in the lobby, and free food in the fridge. What tools do you use to stay connected behind-the-scenes?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

We''re offering internships this summer in: Participatory Exhibition Design. Help take the participatory elements of this permanent gallery to the finish line. Curious how we develop participatory family festivals with 20-100 collaborators every month. Video/Photo. Community Programs. You can help make the magic happen.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2011

Last month, I learned about a fabulous, simple participatory experiment called “Case by Case” at the San Diego Museum of Natural History that uses visitor feedback to develop more effective object labels. To date, the solution has been to put photos on the walls, pray for funding, and ignore the front-end evaluation bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

Flickr Photo by Geoffrey and used with permission. He made this point: But, participatory culture is changing the nature and topology of ours. I had to go the extra step to email Geoffrey and request permission to republish the photo with attribution. Geoffrey has an excellent collection of photos from the conference here

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. my photos, my articles, my videos have traveled around the world literally. So, we searched for creative commons licensed photos. " That means I've made it easy to share my work with you and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Global Voices is the leading participatory media room for voices from developing countries around the globe. I did some volunteer outreach work for global voices to connect with Cambodia bloggers and was an editor for the Cambodia section for a short time before Tharum (in the above photo) took over the job. at Harvard University.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.)

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