Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Harvard Business Review, March 2013. Foundation Review (Vol 5:3) Makes the case that most foundation strategies are unfolding in complex and dynamic environments, and foundations need a more committed approach to learning and strategic adaptation. They also tag and analyze responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

I had mentioned the NpTech Tag Summary - and how practicing that every week makes you better at it. Allan Benamer at the Nonprofit Tech Blog recently wrote about GiveWell's reviews. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. With social media and participatory experiences, we shouldn't just focus our design efforts on what sounds cool or is easy to conceive. design participatory museum. Tags: web2.0

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

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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. You gift the community a book review, I gift an overlapping community a music review. That may be true.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. What kind of dialogue are you looking to spark?

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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

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. But there were 52 people who spent several hours working on the project as content reviewers or copy-editors.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Check out the other parts here. The challenge was to figure out how to do it and end up with a high-quality book.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! In Children of the Lodz Ghetto, every data entry is verified by staff in a three-step process as well as reviewed and commented on by other users.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

They left and wrote over 100 positive reviews of the evening, 12 positive reviews of the museum, and shared over 300 photos of their revels on Flickr. event, the Computer History Museum had 15 reviews on Yelp! That's almost a 100% increase in reviews. Don't look at the number of videos, photos, or reviews.

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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. There have been several studies that show that creating a personal record of an experience and reviewing it later increases learning and retention of content.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

Visitors can take their cards home and review their pledges (and see others' pledges) on the Take Action website , where you can also make pledges directly via the internet. Because this exhibit is new, the staff don't yet have data on how many people choose to review their content at home.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

The participatory radio campaign approach was used to enhance existing systems, not add new content or processes to the farm radio stations. MobileActive.org has also reviewed other IVR systems. Tags: Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN. This allowed listeners to call from their respective networks, making it cheaper.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

You make explicit designations by making purchases, expressing preference via ratings or reviews, or choosing some things over others. Tags: personalization participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. Recommendation systems use a combination of explicit and implicit information to provide you with suggestions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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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. Participants were engaged in the following ways: Content review (open).

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

review from a woman who attended an evening event at the Exploratorium and wrote: I attended the Fisher Investment party as a plus one and WOW!!! The teens were asked to rate the exhibits, and then the exhibits department held a meeting with the teens to review their observations based on their time on the floor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

In addition, I'm sending the winner my review copy of Mitch Joel's Six Pixels of Separation because I think she can learn a lot from Chapter 14 on Participation 2.0. I have a big stack of review copies of books and can't wait to share some brief reviews and then give them away! So I said I'd kick in my copy.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

But if the content is laying fallow, reviewed by NO ONE, why not let visitors take up the mantle? Closing the Loop The final case study in this chapter is about a Canadian grocery store, Loblaw, that invites customers to review their store brand products and makes changes to those products (to recipes and packaging) based on the reviews.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. At People Powered, we recently reviewed and rated the best digital participation platforms , and we have used them to engage our global members in making funding and policy decisions.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

So when people like me start advocating for the creation of tools and opportunities by which visitors can share their stories, reaggregate the artifacts, even rate and review each others' creations, museum professionals of all stripes get concerned. On LibraryThing, you can tag and talk about books. Tags: web2.0 Each Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

Louise's paper starts with a useful literature review, but I find the second half (beginning on page 22) most interesting. When an institution becomes wholly participatory, those distinctions often erode. How can you design participatory structures that invite non-professionals to help you do your work better?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. So when people like me start advocating for the creation of tools and opportunities by which visitors can share their stories, reaggregate the artifacts, even rate and review each others' creations, museum professionals of all stripes get concerned.

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