Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection to one another.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Leaders should also engage in participatory grantseeking. Psychic wages” are not providing incentives to offset student loan debt, housing prices, and health insurance. Nonprofit leaders must model diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, like recruiting their next board members from different, diverse networks.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

It’s participatory. My clients and students who have found the most success in their storytelling efforts are those who understand that storytelling is really about a process. However, and this is a big however, at its foundation “storytelling” is a verb. That means it’s what we are doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Classroom style with desks puts a barrier between the students and the instruction, especially when people are using laptops or tablets to take notes. This accomplished a few things: I didn’t have to trash my plans and revert to a traditional lecture. I made it participatory so participants helped move the furniture.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Participatory Gatherings.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. An example of this is The Portland Art Museum’s partnership with the faculty and students in Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice Department for their annual Shine a Light program. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

I love hearing about staff, board, and student discussions prompted by the book, and I want to make it easy for you to have them. When I wrote my first book, The Participatory Museum , I released it concurrently as a paperback and free online. Sharing a link is often a lot easier than lending someone a book.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. Families playing, vendors hawking, students kissing, old ladies kibitzing. I first sensed the difference at the front door. There wasn't one. Instead, I walked into a lush garden in the middle of the city. Birds flew through the proceedings.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined. The scale and scope of participation in A Show is extraordinary.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

I was reminded of this "care, then act" framework when I saw a recent story about a student's experience at a powerful issue-driven exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, Half the Sky. When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This internship is for the truly self-motivated person out there with a brilliant idea for making museums more participatory, welcoming, community spaces who just lacks an institution at which to try it out. Special Projects interns, who will do, well, whatever you want. Our internships have generally gotten more structured.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

For me, Downward Draw provided an unusual opportunity to examine the more casual end of the participatory spectrum. For years, I've used Forrester Research's five social media user categories --creators, critics, collectors, joiners, and spectators--as a guide when thinking about how to design participatory experiences in physical space.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2012

We're working at my museum on a strategic approach to our educational outreach with K12 classes and students. I found the article to be a clear starting point for thinking in a fresh way about how our museum can best intersect with schools and artists (and students, in our participatory setting) to develop strong programs.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

In January 2013, Dd also hosted a hackathon mainly comprised of local students and programmers, further cultivating ownership and sustainability in the process. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. Key Challenges in Working in Remote Areas.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

We're seeking great folks for public programs, participatory exhibit design, online marketing, 3D design, and whatever else you might have to offer. The topic of the lunch was internships, and the tables paired students with established professionals to talk about opportunities, issues, and possibilities.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. It's amazing how much emphasis the students put on reciprocity: you respect me, I'll respect you. Be personal. It's very relational.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

to raise money for sponsoring a college student in Cambodia via the Sharing Foundation. I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising. I did a campaign video. I don't know what I mean yet.

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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. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. My favorite part of the report is the clear expectations set out for the students, museum staff, and the school (page 7). it's a Secret! , The process was professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

How do you get students to write concisely, boil ideas down to their essence. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site. WOW2 hosts immediately made the connection to micro blogging or micro media making.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show. The goal is two-fold: to start engaging the plaza as a creative, event-filled, vibrant space. multiple times per week. How can we wait for the shoes?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. I also believe that small and mid-sized museums are the leaders when it comes to innovation, particularly around participatory engagement. I knew we were moving somewhere nice.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. Read about the Human Library in chapter 3 of The Participatory Museum by searching that term here.) Where would you like them to be?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Over 30% of our staff statewide are either former Workshop students or parent volunteers. For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop. comfort creative placemaking cultural competency design interview participatory museum'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. I'm biased, because she's demonstrating a participatory project, but she was able to "show, not tell" her interest in engaging with people. I loved this video by Tracie Farrell. Music videos.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

You can participate in this experiment from anywhere in the world (I’ll be in Seattle at the zoo with a group of grad students). I hope you will join me for… StrangeMuse Experiment—this Sunday, April 5. It’s a two-hour workshop to be held at the university and space is limited— go here to register.

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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. A student came up with an amazing metaphor for how intellectual property should work in the classroom and in greater society.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. I want to connect these students to a larger group of people interested in exploring topics around social technology in museums.

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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. Copy editors tended to be younger and included several students. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. Some students folding clothes. They live their mission, working in questions and projects rather than exhibitions and programs. Empty pegboards.

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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. That's why I required my museum studies students to carefully document their Advice exhibition --so that the learning from that unusual project wouldn't be lost and could be applied in other places.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

A one-minute video clip presents the issue (for example, whether students should be allowed to wear headscarves to school). Then, a screen pops up with a statement like “Students should be allowed to wear religious symbols in school.” Tags: exhibition design participatory museum interactives. The setup is always the same.

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