The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

The theme should resonate with both the AAPI community and also general audiences. Most importantly, they create an uplifting, celebratory atmosphere perfect for bringing people together during AAPI Heritage Month. Spreading the Word: Promotion That Connects Reaching a broad and diverse audience is key for AAPI Heritage Month events.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I'm finding myself really enjoying fundraising because it is fundamentally about inspiring people to participate--and to do so in a way that is significant both for the organization and for themselves. As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). Consider a mural.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Telling great stories helps your non-profit get its message out into the world, connect with new audiences and motivate people to take action like making a donation. It’s participatory. This allows them to relate to our unique experience and creates empathy between the two people. creating empathy).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. note: originally, this said "we're writing a label" but with that phrasing, lots of people wrote creative titles for the surfboards (like the title for a work of art) instead of talking about content of interest. What do you want to know?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Forrester created the “social technographics” profile tool to help businesses understand the way different audiences engage with social media (and you can read more of my thoughts on it here ). Consider a mural.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The first of these reasons is practical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. However, when I have participants that also include physically disabled people who are wheel-chair users, have limited mobility, or blind, I make accommodations to be inclusive and, especially avoid being ableist.

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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. The people at Museums and the Web are on the forefront of web-based innovative museum practice. Where’s the museum you know and love?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end. No one planned the love locks, but their success is rooted in the same principles that make all the best participatory projects work: it requires no instructions beyond its own example. Nor are they historic.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The best participatory projects are useful. Rather than just doing an activity, visitors should be able to contribute in a way that provides a valuable outcome for the institution and the wider museum audience. Like the best participatory projects , this postcard activity is constrained but not limiting.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." We want to cultivate a more diverse audience, especially younger people, and we want to do it authentically." Audience development is not an exercise in concentric circles.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. We imagined an cart at the farmer’s markets where people could record stories. And we realized of course that the majority audience would be watchers, not storytellers.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. While some aspects are quite technical and specific, it should be useful for anyone considering writing a book for a niche audience. Check out the other parts here.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

In recent years, crowdfunding has emerged as a popular fundraising strategy, leveraging the power of small contributions from a large number of people online. The Three Pillars of Crowdfunding – Purpose, Perks, and People Drilling down a bit further, modern nonprofit crowdfunding can be divided into three main categories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

s interest to education and engage new audiences. Just last week, Lee Romeo, posted something over a Netsquared about a similar use of flickr - people holding signs. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are! This has also been done by NTEN and Netsquared.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2018

The talk is a 35-minute introduction to the OFBYFOR ALL framework, with a museum bent given the audience. So I don't just want audiences to enjoy the talk. I want people to take action. It increased my sense that I needed the audience. I was afraid I couldn't give a talk that would inspire people to participate.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

But not enough people care about it anymore, and the museum is fading into disrepair. Many people would look at the world''s oldest mechanized silk mill and say that the core content of the museum is silk. A strong participatory process is not a loosey-goosey, open the doors and do whatever strategy. Imagine a historic site.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

When we say we want our museum to be "audience-centered," what do we mean? They catered to different audiences. You could come for the Scottish first peoples or the World War II art or the dinosaurs or the collection of funny shoes. They taught us something new. They prompted dialogue and a desire to keep looking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. ” While the specific topics will emerge from the people in the room, impact leadership is focusing within, people, processes and plans to help the org reach it’s mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I spent today at day 1 of the TechSoup Global Summit in Mountain View with two hundred and forty people who work in the TechSoup Global Network around the world, plus other stakeholders. Alan Gunn was the moderator/host and the participatory design did not disappoint. The started with some big picture frames.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 23, 2008

People who create content for the public try to appeal to a wide range of people, both in terms of demographics and usage styles. And now, the research group Forrester provides new insights about different kinds of participatory styles among users of social media sites. There are different learning styles.

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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. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. It was pretty freaking amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

It brought together a rich mix of people working in humanitarian causes, using social media, and creatives. Many passionate people and stories. . In the afternoon, I did workshop and put the audience right on the cat walk with me. So expect some live blogging, and reflections. deation conference hosted by Charles Lee.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

There is power IN the platform--power to shape the way people participate. This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum. This is the participatory platform model. They've created powerful learning experiences, diverse audiences, and new program formats. Nine years later, I still believe this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” Outside of the US, several countries have more mobile subscriptions than number of people. He told the group, “You can’t put off mobile if more than 20% of your traffic is coming from mobile sources.” Trying to get a head.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. We continuously and actively respond to requests as well as invite people to be a part of our programs. Bonding social capital refers to networks that bring people together with common interests to strengthen relationships in preexisting groups.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Dustin: About a year ago I met a couple of people from Museum Hack at a conference. I want to help people find interactive and accessible points of entry and give them the tools to curate their own experience during every museum visit. Who is the audience for Museum Hack? How did you first get involved with Museum Hack?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

” Her definition of an engaged leader is someone who uses digital, mobile, and social tools strategically to achieve established goals as they relate to leading people and managing organizations. Listen at Scale: How to determine what people need from them and to deepen and enhance their relationship.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

They are hosting performances, exhibitions that morph over time, artists who work in practice-based media, who break the fourth wall with the audience, who invite participation, and who deliberately disrupt museum conventions. Throw in a few participatory elements, and suddenly you have visitors trying to arbitrate amongst themselves.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. It's often intended for an audience that I only barely understand through the ways they respond and interact with the work. To recreate childhood photographs.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The people who are part of a specific community are the experts in that field, and they should be part of the creative process, not just used to “run ideas by,” or as focus groups when we conduct user-testing. The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 12, 2011

Fifteen people engage in the prescribed activities. Approximately 100 people walk by while the program is going on. How many people participated? It was a creative stretch for everyone involved--people who had to draw quickly, exercisers who had to hold poses for longer-than-normal time periods--and everyone had a good time.

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