Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Can a screen reader process this content? At Forum One, we have created a cross-disciplinary internal working group on accessibility. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process. And so, we approached it that way: Is this website “compliant”?

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Accessibility Goal Virginia Audience 71

Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. Here are five guidelines I’ve created after learning from experiences over the past year: 1) Design the technology experience with the lowest barrier to entry. Except when it isn’t! And guess what?

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Virtual Track Student Virtual Classroom 52

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

The first step to creating more inclusive grantmaking is understanding whose voice is being lost. Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. As part of their grantmaking process, the Boston Women’s Fund surveys their grantees several times a year. You know what you need.’”

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 68

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. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with my fellow track facilitators to design the process that we will lead the participants in our track through.

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Registration Leadership Impact Change 128

Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

Within Media Cause’s Creative, Brand, and Design team, one of our favorite things to do— besides creating incredible work for our clients—is sharing inspirational and educational resources with each other: articles, POVs, webinars, classes, books, case studies, blogs, tutorials, cheese. Just wanted to see if you were paying attention.).

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Design Experiment Nonprofit Collaboration 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Only measure impact, not process. I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. First, with discipline and structure. I like to use a combined method.

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Story Data Analysis Measure 121

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

The process was a collaboration in itself, with TSNE MissionWorks , and Essential Partners serving as co-hosts. 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.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Grant Data Boston 52

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation. In the first case, you are making the design process participatory.

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Participatory Design Difference Museum 27

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. In contributory projects, participants collect data in a scientist-controlled process.

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Model Activities Active Activism 98

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Design Participatory Children Museum 49

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Only measure impact, not process. I had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it). First, with discipline and structure. Make data-driven decisions only, don't trust your gut ever.

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Story Data Analysis Structure 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I taught a section on developing and implementing an effective content strategy after some exercises to help participants identify target audiences, create personas, measurable objectives, and channels. It struck me that an effective nonprofit content strategy is a process of continuous improvement.

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Social Media San Antonio Content Strategy 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. In 2003, collaborator Stephanie Sherman and I “re-discovered,” the former store, declared nothing for sale, and began inviting artists to create works using the set, or collection of objects.

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Artist Museum Proposal Participatory 49

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. What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process. I think about the KWL process. Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster. What you know?

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. ” I create a few pages in the beginning to write about my themes, what makes me happy, what to improve, and major projects for the year.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

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 Question Participatory Evaluation 45

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. This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. Create ownership of solutions : “Based on your experience, what do you suggest we do here?”.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

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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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Within a system are stakeholders that can include individuals, organizations, networks of organizations, the range of their actions, their ways of thinking vis-à-vis the issue, and the natural and man-created environmental factors that influence the system. Key is a participatory development process.

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Map System Profit Guatemala 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

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. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. In this guest post, Jeffrey shares the story behind their big hit with a visitor co-created exhibition. and creates a consitent experience no matter how or where a user interacts with the project. gallery closes.

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Authoring Open Experiment Museum 53

Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

And you've decided that you want to integrate community feedback into the development process. Bringing these different communities together in the same space might not have created safe space for the true issues of each group to emerge. Create a structure that values peoples' participation. Designing a new program.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Participatory Museum Process Experiment 33

Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. 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! Neither Click!

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Slides Participatory Museum Children 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

How do you find out what's important to different communities, and how do you change your plans based on their needs? At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development.

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Program Community Design Museum 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. Julie got about 25 of us incredibly excited about their innovative three-dimensional brainstorming process. The further I go on my own personal design process, the less I care about this issue.

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Action Ideas St. Louis Museum 31

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

It was the lengthy progressive response process that turned what is often a series of brief and banal comments into a rich archive of visitor experience. What design techniques do you use to create successful visitor dialogue experiences? Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We’re going to be using strategic planning processes to talk about how we can engage folks in helping to design the services, the programs, the community infrastructure that we all live in, right? So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. How do we do this well?

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Community Video Slides Survey 81

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I was the project manager/curator for the exhibition, leading both the Second Life-based community exhibit design process and the real world translation of virtual exhibits. We shrunk the exhibit design process (concept to floor) from 2 years to five months. On many levels, The Tech Virtual experiment was a success.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. 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?

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Participatory Facilitation Philanthropy Skills 86

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

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. Fundraising is all about creating trust and building relationships. Accounting / @nysscpa. Accounting. Jan 20 - 22. Strategic.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. D) is to going.

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Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

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. 2017 Creating Change Conference. Nov 10 - 11. Jan 18 - 22.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'm creating a powerpiont for the Webinar and an accompanying wikispace, but wanted to put out this blog post for any feedback. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. The news feeds are created by some behind-the-scenes code called ???? t have to know how to create the code.).

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. The Tools Don’t Create Strong or Weak Ties, Stories and People Do. Current structures of suburbia, distant homes, moving for jobs, smaller families, etc.

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Offline Social Media Network Org 116

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Growth hacking: a process of rapid experimentation to identify the most efficient ways to grow a business (or cause!). It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” The magic combination was the traditional nonprofit that provided a centralized campaign structure and unified message to diverse stakeholders.

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People Structure Influence Voice 25