Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Amira Achouri, from an NGO in Tunisia, observed, “As the communications landscape gets denser, more complex, and more participatory, the networked population is gaining greater access to information, more opportunities to engage in public speech, and an enhanced ability to undertake collective action. ” Widad E.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. we had to quickly pivot and learn new technologies and platforms to move their galas and events virtual. What would the structure be like? corporate sponsorships!), What about content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

We are asked to master ever evolving technologies. Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. Yet, our executives and managers, our internal stakeholders cannot understand the open culture. And that is the crossroads.

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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.”. It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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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. 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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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

The Nonprofit Technology Bash will be the best place to mingle and meet with folks from all across the nonprofit technology sector, as well as kick back and have some fun on the last night of the Interactive conference. It's a discussion of bike and pop culture and socializing the good with these Interweb tools” 10.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Nonprofit technology, and more! 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. Technology / #AOCS16 / @AOCSummit. Technology. Fundraising. Donor relations.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Nonprofit Technology, and more! 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. Nonprofit Management.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. The reward for participants of having your contribution displayed is fairly and clearly structured. It showcases diverse voices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Step 8: Understand The Power Remix Culture and User-Generated Content. Remix culture is a term used by the Creative Commons founder Larry Lessig to describe a society which allows and encourages derivative works. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Rather than comparing Woolworth sit-ins to the much-hyped Twitter Revolution, finding the latter coming up wanting, and stopping there, Gladwell might have given some space in the New Yorker to dig a little deeper to find examples of folks using technology to organize in intriguing, successful ways. The examples are there, too.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. That facilitator has to be able to manage many different personalities, the different cultures, different experiences. And there was a lot of cultural misunderstandings, something very basic. Do we have a clear structure? How do we do this well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.” Staffing Support :: advising on staffing structures, integration efforts, and hands-on support with talent recruitment and hiring.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

a democratically structured non-profit which issues the local currency; the Schumacher Center (which retains its affiliation with BerkShares, Inc.); Beyond the direct advantage to small merchants, digital BerkShares’ competitive fee structure is meant to keep more area capital at work in the Berkshires.

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Local Digital Experiment Alternative 104

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory? But what if the "traditional" arts experiences is a myth?

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Greece Arts Industry Participatory 51

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Much to my mom's relief, I stayed in school but remained deeply suspicious of the artificial structure of grades and gold stars. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. That goal isn't based on technology or social media. I didn't want to care what was going to be on the test.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The accelerating rate of technological change suggests that we have no way of determining what comes next on a ten-, twenty-, or fifty-year timescale. One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t think about the future.

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