Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. After finishing the share pairs, we did a quick full group “popcorn” of the ideas that bubbled up. We were assigned to small groups to work a specific theme. Once upon a time x happened.

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

But the people who are on the frontlines of these issues—the people who work directly with the unhoused, who live in areas affected by severe weather, or who are a member of a marginalized group—are the ones who often know how best to loosen the knot. That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. Yet even after all these years, many organizations still haven’t mastered how to use listservs in building successful and engaging online communities. The biggest barriers groups face is how to structure listservs.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

And you've decided that you want to integrate community feedback into the development process. Here are ten things I've learned about making these kinds of community input meetings successful. Consider whether you want a bonded group (people who are like each other) or a bridged group (people who are different from each other).

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

An advisory group and planning group gave crucial input about the strategy and tactics for this event. As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. Both groups can help by: .

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. And the conference itself resonated with joy, participation, and community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Rick wanted a better way to describe what kinds of projects led to different community outcomes.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

How do you develop programs that are responsive to your community in a meaningful way? How do you find out what's important to different communities, and how do you change your plans based on their needs? So we've started a new committee called C3--the Creative Community Committee. Six goals for MAH community programs.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Community is key: working with, not for. The article highlighted the importance of getting to know the client’s impacted community before creating the brand identity. As we think about creative work, we should also consider how we can move from the idea of “creating for” to “creating with” communities. What about content?

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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. The rest of the day was spent in small group discussions framed around different issues. Photo by Glenn Hirsch.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I'm personally most excited about the two types of interns who will be reporting to me: Community Research interns, who will start developing a methodology for us to use to understand how people in Santa Cruz connect with arts and culture experiences and what role the museum can play in satisfying their interests. Sounds good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

All these objects and stories together we call our ‘community of objects’. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. This structures dialogue and makes it more productive.We translated this online game to an offline activity around everyday objects.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We invited community members in, to be active contributors, collaborators, and co-creators in our museum space. They talked about community building. I don’t think there is a way to directly build community. I don’t think there is a way to directly build community. WHO (slides 3-23) "Community” is not an abstraction.

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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. In the co-creation model, visitors and the institution work together from the beginning to define the project's goals and to generate the program or exhibit based on community interests.

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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.”. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes. Participants were tasked with creating a concept poster, timeline, or magazine cover to share their idea with the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Issue System: This system is where the non-profit is one of many entities that are working to address an issue such as health care, deforestation, peace, and community development. Key is a participatory development process. Each type of mapping has specific benefits.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. We have an incredible group of people working together at the MAH right now. Building an amazing team.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Community engagement, though at times unwieldy and time-consuming, is critical to truly propel all variables towards a common goal. Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. It’s a good group. I wish I could see you all because so much of what we do in this work is building community.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 1, 2009

The most popular and relevant resolutions were grouped into four areas-- empowering supporters, using social media networks, focusing on the needs of supporters and making websites user-friendly. Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand."

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The most popular and relevant resolutions were grouped into four areas-- empowering supporters, using social media networks, focusing on the needs of supporters and making websites user-friendly. Resolution Two: "I resolve to use social and participatory media to expand my reach and brand."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I didn't know how to kick off a productive conversation, make group decisions, or close a meeting with energy. Whether you dream of better meetings or you're planning a community festival, I urge you to read this book. I admit: I've never been a fan of events that start with the group writing rules for the day.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. We inspired a community and got real results. Give away the fun (and easy) part.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

First, we realized that our museum is different from other museums, but our benefits and membership structure were the same as others. Second, in 2008 and 2009, when the economy dipped and membership renewal rates started to soften, we started to think more seriously about the emotional factor of supporting the arts in the community.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments. What do you think?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

You'll learn about Livestrong's community and Bike Hugger's blog, events like the Mobile Social, and the millions who follow Lance Armstrong on Twitter. Uprising Tide panel Saturday, March 13 at 03:30 PM - "Inciting Online Communities into Offline Movements - Ready to put your tech community on the map?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

At Women Win , we believe that in the face of such adversity, the best solution — the antidote — is to invest in young women on the ground who are working to make their communities places of radical equity through sport, in spite of the fight they face. Fundacion GOLEES is based in Costa Rica and works with girls and women ages 10-60.

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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. technology and more focus on engaging with communities.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I always assumed that this would be a semi-private endeavor and that the public nature of the blog would just be an efficient vehicle for sharing my ideas with a small group of interested folks. In the last year, I have seen traditional museum attitudes about social media and community co-design go from "why should we care about this?"

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. They aren't game show participants or a lecture audience; they're a group of people out having a good time. The experience doesn't feel social, even if it involves social interactions, because it's structured. A place many museums are not.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Governance.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Raise your hand if you’ve ever had a bad experience working with a group of people to make a decision. Most groups of people do not self-manage well. Group decision-making is especially fraught, perhaps because it brings up issues of power and control. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Most of us have.

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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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