Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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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. I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video. And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Everyone was asked to share five words or “hash tags&# on sticky notes and place them on the wall. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Go to the wiki , read a bit, and add your comments and suggestions for improvement.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, Online social networking was just being born. Citizen journalism. Google Maps. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year).

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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, Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. Tags: ROI. Do share your thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. They also tag and analyze responses. .” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. A starting point for envisioning a future state in which data is the ‘GPS of philanthropy.’ Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I came across two more excellent resources on this evolving topic of social media metrics and wanted to quickly summarize before I add to the link list in the wiki. Types of tags assigned to it, the terms used, the authority of the taggers, the authority of the tagging system. " My slides and resources are here.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

The group was energetic and excited (and didn't even complain when I sent them on a photo scavenger hunt around the conference center), and you can access the materials and see some of their work on the We Are Media Wiki. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. As the great non profit techy Yoda would say, "Do or do not.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

The group was energetic and excited (and didn't even complain when I sent them on a photo scavenger hunt around the conference center), and you can access the materials and see some of their work on the We Are Media Wiki. Tags: Communication Events Strategy. As the great non profit techy Yoda would say, "Do or do not.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 9, 2006

It's called Podcasting Legal Guide: Rules for the Revolution and you can find it at the Creative Commons wiki. I've also been on about participatory video on the net lately, in particular the much-in-the-news You Tube , as well as CurrentTV. Tags: nptech , resources

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

The project wiki is here and he has a del.icio.us feed where he is tagging resources here. I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox. net neutrality??? on YouTube, Google Video, Podzinger and delicious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. By using tagging and RSS extension programs are able to exchange information and share content freely. Nutrition or fill in your Extension topic/subject area in Blog posts , in tags and in the Blog Directory.

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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. Admirably, the Smithsonian has opened up their new media strategic planning via a public wiki. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2009

Games are already highly participatory, but over the last few years game designers have been giving players more control over the gameworld and experience. These creatures can be registered on a wiki , and there are easy tools to upload videos directly to YouTube from the game of your creature taking its first steps and yawlps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

My interest in online interaction is very recent; last year I asked what a blog and a wiki was. " Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. What is your sense of how these social networking tools, tagging, blogs and the like ??? t have a clue." I blogged a discussion on web2.0

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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. Several said things like, "I was curious to see how this kind of participatory, collaborative approach would work in practice."

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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. One more note on the wiki: while it was a community site, I felt very in control of the content. of the words on the wiki.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I had heard some influential museum leaders raise the question of what a wiki museum might look like, and I wanted to explore that and related concepts. Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague.

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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. Next week, part 2 will focus on participants' experiences. Copy editing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

They left with free tshirts branded with the museum's name (and other sponsors), wrote about it on a wiki and shared photos on Flickr. Projects participatory museum. Tags: web2.0 To some people, these events may sound like losers. They don't generate rental revenue (usually). marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0

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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. Tags: Books pinko marketing relationships.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation.

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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. I’m using a wiki to do so, and a few intrepid generous folks have signed up to give feedback on the evolving draft. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

On the web, via the MN150 wiki, you can view the winning (and non-winning) nominations and additional historical content provided by the museum. Projects interview design participatory museum usercontent. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 What questions did I miss--what do you want to know about MN150?

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