Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

It’s almost Spring and a thousand theories of change are blooming like the cherry trees in Washington, DC. The goals need to be front and center through the entire process, particularly when the measurement approach is more new or participatory and is designed to evolve over time.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Participatory. Participatory. San Francisco and Washington DC are collaborating around API accessiblity for their 311 phone lines. Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Now let's think about our sector. . Transparent.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2007

Now this sort of public participatory use of the web is going mainstream in an experimental program by the U.S. Here's the story from this morning's Washington Post. This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 8, 2010

Many of the talks are related to The Participatory Museum and I will have books for sale on all of these forays. April 22/23 - Washington DC. June 17 - I'm keynoting the Washington Museums Association conference in Gig Harbor, WA. Here's the list for the next two months: April 14-17 - Denver for Museums and the Web conference.

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Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

Earlier this week, I addressed the topic of social media in the military and government on a panel at The Army and The Navy Club in Washington, DC.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

It is my hope, my prayer that I can use these god given communication skills, our not so new world of participatory media, and make green something so compelling that it cannot help but become an all powerful movement. You know I believe this is our generation’s greatest challenge, as great as the fascist threat that faced our grandparents.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

DMA / Washington, DC / Not available. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Washington, DC / Not available. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Washington, DC / Not available. Join us in Washington, D.C., Washington Nonprofit Legal and Tax Conference. Strategic. Strategic.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 8, 2009

Last week Washington played host to a few events of note for folks interested in government and social media (aka Web 2.0, the Internets, etc.). On Wednesday, The U.S. State Department hosted the first government TED event: TED@State. in Government.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

People curious to learn more about these trends packed a room at the National Press Club in Washington on September 16 to discuss the challenges and successes of content syndication. Others went on to crown the achievements from the participatory public sphere that have arisen as a result of increased access to content.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

I’m teaching a course on social technology at the University of Washington Museology program this spring, and we’ve decided to open up a FREE workshop on participatory design for museum practitioners and other students on the afternoon of the 24th (thank you, UW). Free workshop on topic of your choosing—Friday, April 24 in Seattle.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2011

She published a book in 2010 titled "The Participatory Museum" that outlined the ideas of her blog -- and many of the world's big-city museums brought her in to help them figure out how to shake off the fusty image of museums and embrace modern times and modern audiences. where she worked at the International Spy Museum. "We

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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. Independent Sector / Washington, DC / $1,625. 11/11/2016.

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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. Spring is here and it’s time to talk to strangers. There are three reasons you might value this activity: It will be fun and kind of unusual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

Here's the initial description and feedback so far: The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. We will also design a "Flickr Walk" to take place sometime during the conference.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I applied to work for This American Life (rejected) and in the meantime fell in love with someone who lived in Washington D.C. Now, as a freelancer, my work combines long-term, creatively challenging participatory exhibit projects with lots of little workshops and brainstorming sessions with institutions around the world.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

As Kris Morrisey (University of Washington) commented in the opening session, there has been a shift in museums, especially science museums, from focusing on "public understanding of" to "public engagement with" museum content. Tags: participatory museum. More on what that could mean and how it can happen in the weeks ahead.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

Flash back six months and I'm with friends at a hip bar in Washington DC, losing miserably at a weekly trivia night. But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. Flash back two weeks ago and I'm talking to a friend who attends monthly spelling bees at a bar in San Francisco.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. I was always thinking, how could a freelancer pitch the world?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The aforementioned Greater Greater Washington. Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. The Obama campaign, for one. They may be few, but it’s still early.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Last week, NAS brought 25 people (including me) to Washington to discuss what issues might be appropriate to cover in the report, which is at least 3 years from hitting the press (assuming it receives funding). Of course, that audience is a long way from seeing such a report.

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