Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. This is why I’m passionate about creating, facilitating, and participating in peer learning communities in the nonprofit technology field. They help deepen a field of practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. Trust me. What works?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. I learned an incredible amount from collaborating with arts teachers. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. We commissioned new collaborative artwork. The facilitation was as chaotic and fragile as a spiderweb. Short story: we learned a lot. There were trust issues.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Collaboration with experienced digital fundraisers is invaluable to learn what resonates. The ads were hailed as beautiful, artistic, and innovative. Facilitate two-way dialogue to make supporters feel heard. Make digital appeals personal and highlight donor benefits. Use time-limited offers to create urgency.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." Our work would become more relevant, our collaborations more timely, our network more diverse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? Concept 2: Mission: Possible.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above). He is an authoritative artist of the social web with a slew of accolades and a suite of diverse projects under his belt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. This is about facilitating discovery, nurturing trust, sharing experiences, and light-weight focused request/responses.”. What ecosystems facilitate serendipitous discovery and collaboration? Doing good isn’t our job, it’s everyone’s.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet. I was teaching Web1.0

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. The result was a true experiment in designing the future--right here, right now--with artists and planners and civic leaders at the helm together. Thousands more conversations during the festival. The arts ARE future-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. I facilitated online forums, provided technical support the 500 members, and training. Onlne Facilitator. online facilitator? Online Community Builder.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2007

On Tuesday, I facilitated an introductory workshop on how nonprofits can use social media in Boston at the nonprofit technology conference and yet another remix of the curriculum wiki , presentation , and game designed by David Wilcox. I've found slideshare extremely useful for collaboration. Much better than emailing as attachment.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. Humans empower each other. Build community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2008

Then I discovered the Internet and became the community builder for Arts Wire, an online network for artists that used a unix-based text conferencing system called Caucus. It was like very primitive version of wiki collaborative organizing. I was networking weaving between the offline/online. It was before the commercial web.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. Going back to the original goal of people working together in community, how did you keep from being the "go to" person who all the Inspectors looked to as the facilitator of their experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! Collaborating. Interactive.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Many museums produce superb lesson plans, curator interviews and artist interviews for the web. Conversation has been key to Smarthistory’s success, and we’ve worked with several museums to facilitate the creation of conversation-based content. We wrote about that in a recent blog post, Why the Google Art Project is Important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Authenticity and Demystifying the Artistic Process. An internal focus for organizations to capture knowledge and support collaboration and go external. Facilitating people who receive organization???s Artistic Director Blog (Inactive). Nonprofit Quarterly/N-TEN Collaboration: What's a blog and why should nonprofits care?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2010

The piece was developed in collaboration with Yoon Jin Kim, a Korean choreographer based in Seoul, and it uses the centuries-old idea of the kiseang, a geisha-like Korean woman who serves men, as the basis for a radical and provocative program. Sound scary? Performative risk elicits emotional response.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Finally, some history museum staff members feel that they should not be dealing with contemporary social issues or that they are unable to facilitate dialogue on contentious topics. Ironically, art museums often present the most radical participatory experiences for visitors--but only when led by an artist, not by internal staff members.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process." George and my experience in the one-minute sculpture activity was also facilitated by the space provided. DO delineate the space, but design easy ways to disengage.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The groups can use three different approaches: physical, artistic, or traditional word presentation. A person is randomly designated as the facilitator for a 15 minute discussion on each of the topics in the envelope. This is the cocktail party, the hallway conversation, a structured time to meet and talk.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. A month ago, I invited you to join this project.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

And while there's lots of good stuff in these sections (including an introduction for me to some wild net artists ), it's the last chunk that interests me most, where Karen explores the question of how and where Internet art should be exhibited. while at the computers. the content is presented programmatically. or other link set.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration. We had several community discussions about the competition disincentivizing collaboration--the money sent a contradictory signal to all our talk about sharing. One of these artists, a graffiti artist named Dan, had such a good time that he a.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

This type of event is less collaborative than a video conferencing app like Zoom. Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or, for an extra high touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This type of event is less collaborative than a video conferencing app like Zoom. Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or for an extra high-touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

Kind of like artists, a lot of passion and drive can create great things, but they aren't necessarily sustainable over time. They're artists so they think big. I think that government really should facilitate an environment that nurtures business development, and then get out of the way. What does big really mean for us?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

This year, we will complete the development of the first two technologies—the recording mechanism and the collaborative mapping tools. We have the City of Boulder naturalists, who are involved in organizing field activities for the community—bringing the community into the open spaces—to facilitate that collection.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. We tested five versions of the prompt sheets--some with instructions focused to the subject of the exhibition (artists' takes on nature), others with more open-ended instructions designed to encourage a broader range of responses.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

The following is a combination of results from analysis I conducted last year on the 50 Collaboration Prize submissions that related to mergers, as well as two case studies from recent church mergers in the metro Phoenix area. Both churches also had an emphasis on serving the downtown artist community. The same is true for nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. But it's hard to explain to visitors who haven't played Apples to Apples, and if there is not a gallery host to facilitate, this one often sits unplayed.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

“We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Its also valuable for small business, artists, and much more.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. And that might involve collaboration, saying, “We acknowledge that there are others in the community that do this better or more effectively. So, obviously, going to be a really great presenter for you. So you raised $20,000.

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