Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

I shifted a lot of my content and advice to focus on creating a life-work balance when you work remotely and how to create a more connected virtual team as well as digital wellness. Reflection: As a trainer and facilitator, I am constantly learning and testing new facilitation and training techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. Nothing like first-person accounts. I ask them to generate a list of keep, tweak, and delete.

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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. I believe that interactive training makes for better learning and there is research to back that up. Training is better when you content and instruction is as inclusive as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. Apparently you can’t make crappy content go viral.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Every month I bring you a roundup of free technology training events that will help nonprofit staffers like you build their skills. Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Covina, California: Monetization of Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” ” Lots of comments pros and cons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. But, not just skills training, but learning to understand the impact of connected society and transformation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. As a trainer, a best practice for any training is to get participants to do an icebreaker to get to know each other and to think about what they already know about the training topic. Design must comes first. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. The beauty of this is that the stories work well as micro content and as an opportunity for engagement. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. I’ve done many multiple day, intense training sessions. I have used posters in my training design for years – either to consolidate learning or as part of innovation labs.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

For example, in post-earthquake Haiti, Dd trained and empowered local women to track and document incidents of gender-based violence. " Dd has enlisted and trained local leaders program from the beginning. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2014

We’ll also be auctioning off a free On Demand Tactical Tech Planning training course from Idealware (a $475 value). New LightCMS and TribeHR NetSuite donations at TechSoup: Find out how to get a discounted content management system, online store, HRIS, recruiting or performance management software. Discussion Topic. 10 -- 11am.

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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. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. These techniques are described in more detail in “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. ” This builds trust and establishes your objectivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I’m honored to be working with her on a training project that I’ll share more about in 2011. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. I first met Mary in 2005 through my connection with the Global Voices community and can say that Mary is among the most knowledgeable and experienced digital activists in the world.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard." " They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics. and then aggregating tagged content on their site. The content aggregation is not moderated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

" I'm trying to walk the walk and talk the talk of Remixing Content for nonprofits. The above slides are from yesterday's Extension presentation and focus on Step 8: User-Generated Content and Remixing. Do mashups and the notion of content remix finally fulfill the promises once made by proponents of learning objects?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

IVR allows a user to call, enter or say specific numbers, and listen to or contribute audio content. Where Radio Maria collected and re-broadcasted incoming voice content, Volta Star in Ghana focused on improving access to radio segments by posting outgoing content. Making radio more accessible in Ghana.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Ready to turn your institution into a site of participatory engagement? Want to bring the spirit of this blog to your colleagues and projects? Have an audacious idea but don't know where to start?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. While there is some reporting about audience numbers and visitor comments, there isn't a lot of content about how people responded to the exhibition. it's a Secret! ,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As someone who has been a trainer for all these years, one of the things we're trained to do is "read the room." You watch for body language to indicate the level of engagement and whether or not people agree or disagree and encourage them to participate. It’s like a new set of antennae."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

Of course, the objects were chosen for their pecularities, and in some cases, such as a giant licorice tricycle shaped like a shoe , the imagined usage (guide dog training distraction device) is almost as reasonable as the real thing (2000 Olympics closing ceremony vehicle). The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content.

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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

MARCH 21, 2011

In most cases, docents and floor staff are trained to be the point person for conversation and idea-sharing. This is most extreme in institutions that have a delightful, idiosyncratic style to their content communication and a more formal approach to development communication. The challenge is initiating them.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

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. Tags: participatory museum visitors. The gym staff aren’t offering instruction or serving as users’ partners; instead, they facilitate connections among the users.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. Not only are they offering content, they're taking totally geeky endeavors like "trivia" and "spelling bees" and turning them into hot commodities. Can a venue be as important than the content packaged inside it?

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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. But are these potential interactions safe? But this isn't just about policing.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

We don''t involve people in content development to "boost ticket sales." The whole process of being interviewed for the story made me question the stories we tell and words we use to describe participatory work. This article made me wish I had some kind of political training in framing the argument. Community is not a commodity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. It's messy.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

For anyone who’s been my student or come to my trainings, I’m really focused on usable knowledge. So my agreement with you to share some content that many nonprofit leaders find useful, and to stop periodically during the webinar to make sure that you’re with me and get your thoughts. How you can benefit the most?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. Maybe you have partners who would pay for corporate training programs under your brand. Maybe you need to consider changing your hours.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. If life is a chessboard, content is still king. I was always thinking, how could a freelancer pitch the world?

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

By Jeff Ramos, Community and Content Manager, Games for Change When most people outside gaming think of video games, they typically fall into three buckets: "old school" games like Super Mario and Tetris, social and mobile games like Farmville and Angry Birds, or hyper-violent console games like Grand Theft Auto.

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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. Nonprofit technology, and more! Fundraising. Social Capital 2016. Social Capital 2016.

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