Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). For example, if you invite a participant to scribe, they cannot fully participate in the activity. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

We’ll address emerging best practices and discuss the associated opportunities and challenges of community-driven strategies. This session will include a presentation, discussion and small group scenarios. This session will focus on strategies and tactics to amplify the impact of mission-based programs through community-driven efforts.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Assess and Respond to Community Assets and Needs If you want to activate community engagement in your programs, you first need to work together with your communities to determine their diverse needs, assets and interests. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

This is the first installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. Facebook discussion board here. Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Listening to and consulting the crowds: Actively listening to online conversations and openly asking for advice. We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory. These themes include: 1. The scenarios are both possible and provocative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Then you are ready to tackle confirming the topic before combustion, which is the discussion and work around meaning-making and decisions. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. The serendipity of being able to have an informal conversation with a colleague that you might not normally run into if you sat at your desk.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

Fifteen people engage in the prescribed activities. For me, Downward Draw provided an unusual opportunity to examine the more casual end of the participatory spectrum. When prototyping, I'm frequently in a cajoling mode, trying to entice people to try the active form of participation to see what works and doesn't.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Celgene’s has five focus areas that guide its work and that our talks and discussion touched on many of these themes. This post summarizes some of the insights related to the effective use of networks and data in healthcare information and patient advocacy. Stefani Klaskow, Head of Industry, Health Care at Google.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. We discussed impressionism from Manet to Monet, and delved deeper in pointillism and Greek sculpture. Can you give an example of the kind of Museum Hack activity that makes this different from other museum tours?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

The whole day was spent in passionate discussion about research projects, international crises, and serious, cost-intensive efforts for zoos and aquaria to take action to improve the fate of elephants and other species at risk. fundraising participatory museum risk Technology Tools Worth Checking Out' I certainly didn''t.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Yet our posts contain similar phrases such as “21st century museums,” “changing museum paradigms,” “inclusiveness,” “co-curation,” “participatory” and “the museum as forum.” If your museum has not until now been involved in community discussions, you may be met at first with suspicion as to your intentions. inclusion'

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Let's discuss what it means, how it works, where it can go. There are huge positives to tapping into these networks (which we've discussed here before), including connecting with visitors "where they are" and co-opting easy-to-customize applications for museum purposes. In this case, it's debatable. Some reasons include.

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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.”. This was followed by a presentations and discussion with four thought leaders who shared their insights and knowledge around four different themes: New Power : Henry Timms, 92nd Street Y. New Technology for New Power Movements. Thanks everyone!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process. activity works in similar way: pulling out John Collier Jr???s

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

We were discussing the potential for cultural organizations to have significant impact across communities: on planning, health, education, and quality of life. It was a simple pathway of fringed fabric that invited you to wander into a seating area with information about the drought (it made sense if you were there).

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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! Some of the key lessons we discussed were: providing crystal-clear criteria and constraints to help participants focus their work.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning. Do you talk to people sitting next to you on planes?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine activities that actually encourage you to spend time on said beach. There will be discussions, workshops, immersive activities, and plenty of time to relax and seduce the creative genius inside you. Imagine a conference. Now, imagine it happening in a beautiful retreat center on the beach.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

On your website: share y our programing goals , solicit collaborations in general and for specific events, provide easily accessible staff contact information, clearly state how your collaborations function, give thanks and acknowledgement to your collaborators through your website and on Facebook page. Follow up with them later.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Written interpretation about the pictures was kept to a minimum, although we did include family-orientated activity workstations relating to five individual paintings. What was unexpected were the positive comments about the format both in the gallery and in the newspaper from very art-informed visitors.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

If you want to report live from an event or speech, you can use Twitter to send out individual chunks of information, a string of mini-pearls of insights and reactions. to be a more participatory site with comment streams rampantly debating each post topic, but the reality is that my voice dominates the site. I’d love Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

And as someone in the planning stages of a new venue (a cafe that offers craft beer, Belgian frites, and intriguing encounters with strangers), I was looking for information and tools that can help me make the best decisions for the financial and mission-related viability and health of the new company. The good news? The bad news?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

That discussion has traditionally focused on visitors' ability to distinguish real artifacts from props and the question of whether an experience with a reproduction is lesser than, equivalent to, or superior to engaging with "the real thing." The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

Rock climbing (safely) is a two-person activity. More and more museums are putting resources into floor staff who are trained to connect visitors with content, to serve as interpreters and informal teachers. If done right, it can be a financially light way to make visitors feel that the museum is an active, social place.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Surveys, interviews, tracking studies, and exhibit evaluations are often isolated events, and the information gleaned is specific to particular projects. You need to turn the ways you currently do research into listening activities, and you need to ask your community specifically to help you improve the museum. and opportunity.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

I am recommending the transcript of Clay Shirky's speech about Gin, Television, and Social Surplus , in which he argues that the next twenty years will be marked by people's slow, incremental, and astoundingly impactful awakening from being passive consumers (of TV) to partly active content creators. But one page! I'm not sure I succeeded.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. A person is randomly designated as the facilitator for a 15 minute discussion on each of the topics in the envelope.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. Fundraising. Donor relations. Accounting. General / @southwestfdns. 38th Annual Nonprofit Conference. 38th Annual Nonprofit Conference.

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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. 95% of the blog posts I read are exciting to me because they provide me with useful, interesting windows into new information. They aren't better than other posts, and they are certainly less informative than many. it gets me excited.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I think the reason we hold onto the idea generation part is because it's fun, not because it's the activity in which we have the most specialized expertise. People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2021

So keep your team laser-focused on a few key activities at all times by being vocal about all the things that you could but won’t do (at least not yet!). . Funders, donors, and board members may want a polished deck to look at, and there’s no substitute for aesthetically pleasing infographics that inform and delight.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. Tags: participatory museum visitors. A lot of what interests me about bringing 2.0

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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. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The post initially caught my eye because there was a quote from Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith, co-authors of The Dragonfly Effect (I’m giving away a copy ). I posted a link on FB page and it prompted quite a discussion from nonprofit folks. She Jillian York’s critique. First, a smaller quibble.

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