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. His welcome was followed by remarks from Akhtar Badshah who reminded us that technology disruption is our friend.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Co-created programming that represents the complex range of voices in communities, offers platforms for communication, collaboration and shared experiences that can enrich preexisting relationships while also offer a space for new relationships to form and strengthen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Technology at the Margins: How IT Meets The Needs of Emerging Markets by Salesh Chutani, Jessica Rothenberg AAlami, and Akhtar Badshah. Digital activism is defined by the Meta-Activism Project as “the practice of using digital technology for political and social change.&# 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The session included an update of Celgene’s work in patient advocacy and an announcement of their Innovation Impact Awards Program , focused on incorporating the patient voice into pharmaceutical and biotech research and development. Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.”

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

Technology has altered the way to connect and cultivate professional relationships and it is also transforming how leaders lead. Participatory engagement invites people to answer a particular question or comment on a post. It could be a town hall or a “ask me anything” type of event.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

And pop culture icons, from basketball players to rock stars , are making highly visible commentary with their clothes and voices. Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” Where do museums fit in?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania. Photo: Bart Sullivan .

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences. I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. For those of us who have been attending blogging and tech conferences, the backchannel is not new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was drastically different from the Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN’s flagship event that has over 2,000 attendees, dozens of tracks and hundreds of panels, big parties, a trade show, and all the things you would expect from a traditional conference. ” Anne Lamott.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. For about half an hour, hundreds of people play together, silently, as directed by disembodied voices inside their headphones. The voice tells you what to do –stand up, shake hands, play Twister, make silly shapes—and you do it.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

At Riverside, I was impressed by the consistent integration of community voices in label text, and the very human take on a genre (transportation) that is often presented strictly in terms of technology and provenance. That work showed in the human voices and stories throughout the museum.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

to be a more participatory site with comment streams rampantly debating each post topic, but the reality is that my voice dominates the site. If I told you I'd created a participatory website in which 0.3% of visitors add their own content, you'd probably send me to a dictionary to look up "participatory."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy. New Technology for New Power Movements. This approach would also create capacity for new voices and new ideas to be engaged in the environmental movement. Concept 2: Mission: Possible.

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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. In particular, I've enjoyed digging into the workshops that were held on Education , Business Models , Technology and Ops , Curation and Research , and Directors.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

The Nonprofit Technology Bash will be the best place to mingle and meet with folks from all across the nonprofit technology sector, as well as kick back and have some fun on the last night of the Interactive conference. Hear from the nonprofits that have made it happen.” What is influence and how is it measured?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

People already know how to leave voice and text messages and don't have to grapple with a comment system to do so. Last year, I did an experiment with Eric Siegel of the New York Hall of Science using the Voicethread technology to invite people to offer suggestions and critique on an exhibition plan. First, device familiarity.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2009

It wasn’t expensive to construct, it doesn’t rely on artifacts, and the interactives integrate technology in a low-key, magical way. There is no dissonance between the museum’s formal voice and laminate and the visitors’ pens and paper. It is an incredible museum experience. We’re all together, man.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. In some cases, that's based on subject matter, as at the Museum of Jurassic Technology or the American Visionary Art Museum. Small museums, which are most likely to cultivate local, distinctive voice and approaches, often have an inferiority complex.

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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! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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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. Technology has become part of the fabric of museum work. Many organizations didn't face them before their growth, and their staff is paying for it now.

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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. More at TechCrunch and Technology in the Arts Blog. Musematic is a group blog of museum technology professionals. Musematic is a group blog of museum technology professionals.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. It showcases diverse voices. The posts are short (365 words or less) and are intended to give a personal snapshot of that individual's day.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Nonprofit Technology, and more! 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. Nonprofit Management.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. I have to feel like the post is open enough to my experience, that the blogger and the community of that blog would find my voice worthwhile, that I have some strong reaction I want to share, that I won't sound stupid. it gets me excited.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

At the same time, technology advances, global consumer trends, and the urgency of so many causes have given rise to the networked individual who is rewriting the rules of engagement. Rachel Hutchisson, VP of CSR, tells us it’s today’s individual change agents who are deeply connected to cause, community and technology: Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

They also started small and low-cost with the automated phone call system: instead of taking the time and money to build out interactive voice response technology, a Fasal team member recorded the “automated” voice behind the phone by reading call scripts. Kyle Rush, Author and Technology Consultant.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. You can view and download all the slides here.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Make sure that you share that plan back with them and you let them know that their voice helped to impact this plan and here’s how they continue to stay involved. . How do we do this well? So those are my slides.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. BUT we won't acknowledge their voices and their meaning. That goal isn't based on technology or social media. BUT we will try to force them to do what we want them to anyway. My goal is to break down those BUTs.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

Suzanne Fischer is Curator of Technology at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI, and Eric Johnson is a librarian and New Media Specialist at Monticello in Charlottesville, VA. You can join the conversation in the blog comments and add your own voice to the debate.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2015

Find ways to empower your supporters to be the voice of your cause. According to Barbara Newhouse, in an interview with Beth Kanter , it takes a strong collaborative of partners and technology infrastructure to make a feat like this possible. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. It is made by many.

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