Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

He made this point: But, participatory culture is changing the nature and topology of ours. And it's not just that we can build Wikipedia or Flickr streams. It's ours in a different way. We can create works with strangers, with anonymous crowds, and in all the other ways we're inventing. This is a very different sense of ours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. Spend some time at the beginning of your presentation explaining to your audience how you will respond to the twitter stream and audience members are more likely to use it responsibly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Social Media command centers are more commonly found in the corporate center for these uses.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. We also developed the site so each submitted photo had its own URL and threaded comment stream so discussions could take place around the submitted works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

That is important if you want to stream them with a tool like splashr. In addition, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has an excellent round up of advice on engaging audiences - which is necessary if you want to dip your toes into participatory media. For some big picture ideas on user generated content , see this resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

The next step, of course, is to throw in a little remix and participatory media culture into it! There are 198 photos in the flickr stream. (My They are encouraging people to tag into del.icio.us, flickr, YouTube, etc. and then aggregating tagged content on their site. The content aggregation is not moderated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Beth's Flickr Stream. From Icommons comes an incredibly useful legal brief to remixing media in the age of participatory media and campaigns by Steve Vosloo, Digital Hero Book Project. What's even better, you don't need a law degree to understand it!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! This special digital storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge in February. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

Here's the flickr stream. The session and moderator guidelines are designed to make the next a very interactive and participatory conference. I'm at the live blogging tutorial and people are introducing themselves and I've noticed some great computer and hand bags. There are still enough urinals to cover the 20% of men attendees).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

If a blog is a lecture with a q&a session at the end, Twitter is a cocktail party, a stream of interrelated one-liners and repartees. to be a more participatory site with comment streams rampantly debating each post topic, but the reality is that my voice dominates the site. Consider, for example, this blog.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! This special Digital Storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TSDigs challenge in February. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. Content is also being added to the site through streams of aggregated content through the net2 tag. This site, and the Net?? The community is facilitated or sparkplugged by Chris Locke.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. open remixable formats (ie an MP3, not a RealAudio stream). discoverable resources (does not mean repositories, but does mean openness).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more. We will also organize a flickr collaboration during conference, for example we might take digital photos of the event around particular themes and stream and project our photo stream so everyone at NTC can view it.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2009

will feature a guest post from the director of the CFM, Beth Merritt, and in two weeks, the CFM will be streaming the video of Jane's talk for free. I set up a participatory site for the retreat alongside the more traditional AAM offering to provide a more interactive interface. Next week, Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. I see three significant internal reasons for homogenization in museums: As money gets tight, museums look for exhibits, program strategies, and revenue streams that are "proven" by other institutions' successes, rather than charting their own potentially risky path.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. They also meant we had to find new revenue streams and deal with increased operating costs. Many, many organizations were building or living with a new building in this decade.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 20, 2009

Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards. To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2009

While this post is not about museums, it tells the story of how a performance group developed participatory elements as an integral part of their show. We see the stage as a safe place for taking some participatory risks—we handpick volunteers who come up to dance and compete, and their terror, fame, and hijinks only last a few minutes.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

But Netflix realized that their ability to sell subscriptions was directly related to their ability to provide users with a steady stream of good movie recommendations, so they invested heavily in creating a rating system that is fun and easy to use. Tags: personalization participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. They ask judges to self-define their art knowledge. Note that this is a research/learning approach that is key to success of Web2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

The messages included pleas for support or retweeting the news, but beyond that the stream included pleas from people on the ground in Haiti asking for emergency assistance or letting loved ones and friends know they’re okay.

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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. Through partnerships, Not For Sale also sells the soup commercially in grocery stores and other businesses, creating a revenue stream that funds its operations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

It lets you tap into a stream of people who care and may be committed to your organization, cause, program, or subject area. A tag is a label, but it's also a stream. master the reader first and start with just a few feeds to read. Step 6: Share the Face of Your Program. How can I go back and find this? Discovery Exercise.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Join us in-person or stream the conference online. The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

I am the director of a non-profit that promotes open museum practices, and we are in midst of launching a free service for arts organizations: a web site that permits any museum to create a participatory exhibit space and social network centered on the museum's collections. It takes content, strategy and elbow grease.

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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 personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. Maybe it is more like moment capture.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Not everyone comes back to read the evolving comment stream, but the aggregate is always valuable to the next visitor. Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent. But I know that the resultant conversation provided information to many subsequent visitors to the space. It's like following blog comments.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 26, 2009

system, your image becomes part of a Flickr stream. Remember, the people who chose to produce content onsite--to track themselves, to play games, to make pledges, to mess with their photos--were drawn specifically to active participatory experiences. When you augment a photo in the Chicago History Museum's Get Lincolnized!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. So knowing who the players are, getting a seat at the table, not only are you able to do strategic planning for your organization but you’re able to impact the actual funding streams and the actual players and have them become your advocates.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

The NYC-based group Improv Everywhere conducts elaborate and somewhat uncomfortable public “scenes” (such as people streaming onto a subway car with no pants), fueled by volunteers who feel exhilarated by the opportunity to act strange in a socially supported, somewhat safe way. Tags: programs participatory museum comfort.

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