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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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The Nonprofit Book We’ve Been Waiting Four Years To Read Is Finally Here: New Power

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It downloads and it captures. It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. New power is made by many.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum.

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Want to Co-Create an Exhibition on a Hot Issue? Introducing the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit

Museum 2.0

You can download it for free right now. This project wove together many different participatory threads. The facilitation was as chaotic and fragile as a spiderweb. You can now download the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit , a guide to this co-creation process. Short story: we learned a lot. What did we learn?

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10 Nonprofit Books from 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The book is available on Amazon or as a free download. I met Mazarine Treyz 3 years ago in Portland, Oregon when I facilitated a one-day social media and nonprofit workshop for the Meyer Memorial Trust. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. Nedra Kline Weinreich is a social marketing whiz kid.

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Everyone's Smithsonian: Video, Slides, and an Open Strategic Planning Process

Museum 2.0

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The slides are also available for download. Tags: participatory museum professional development. The talk was webcast and taped, and if you have an hour, please consider checking out the video.

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