Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My sessions were integrated into the various leadership, visioning process for women’s rights, curriculum development, and evaluation methods modules throughout the week as networked and social media skills were not the main focus. I have read a lot about these methods , but you cannot really under it until you experience it.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We have seven participatory elements in our current exhibitions on three floors, ranging from voting to talkback walls to an in-depth "make a memory jar" craft activity. But not so much in the men's bathroom.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

They are now adding new subject areas to their portfolios, like public health, mental health, food security, use of technology, and democracy, as just a few examples. Some foundations that lacked experience in local giving began investing more in communities, while others engaged in cross-border giving to show European solidarity.

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Europe Case Study Fund Practice 98

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are a known (and somewhat controllable) entity. The first of these reasons is practical.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. see for example the post about blogging policy ).

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Arts Social Media Examples Artist 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. Social networking requires commitment -- you can't set up a MySpace profile and then walk away. Go read it. each of various qualities. More here ). *

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Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

Forum One

APRIL 21, 2022

From creating an improved user experience to a new brand impression, we help organizations achieve a look on the outside that represents the modern, innovative work that they do on the “inside.”. Members of our 16-person design team have specializations, from user experience design to interactive design.

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Design Team Beginner Audience 46

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. For example: American museum visitors often feel comfortable sharing their own opinions/stories/creative expression. European museum visitors appear more comfortable engaging in interpersonal dialogue and social games with strangers.

Culture 49

Culture Participatory New Zealand Museum 49

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH.

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Museum Program Participatory Community 49

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. As part of their introspection, the Boston Women’s Fund also found that they weren’t hearing as much from younger women, and those who did participate felt that they were drowned out by the experiences of the older women.

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 66

AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can make this an educational experience and spread the tastings out throughout the evening or you can make it a small portion of a larger party, kicking off the tasting around midnight. Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . Virtual Game Night.

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Virtual Ideas Game Classes 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2010

I am putting the finishing touches on another social media lab designed for arts organizations. I had too look no further than Shelley Bernstein's blog over at the Brooklyn Museum to find some thoughtful experimentation and useful examples. Location-based social networks also offer opportunities for the performing arts and theatre.

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Museum Mashup Badge Participatory 97

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" But when it comes to socializing with strangers, their interest is incredibly low.

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Teen Social Museum Participatory 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Can you describe your experience at the 14LCS? Can you give an example of how you applied what you learned from the 14LCS to your daily work? One thing I did almost immediately was make some basic changes to our organizational website based on the group work we did related to user experience.

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Donation Impact Share NTEN 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

For example, storytelling. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. There's partner program where your can apply for a camera - it's called Flip Video Spotlight. Advice about using the FLIP camera: The Flip Spotlight site has a resource section with lots of tips for using the camera.

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Camera Camtasia Experiment Screencast 76

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. If you want a chance of winning a copy, leave a comment saying how you might apply some of the science of participation to your social media strategy. What does this have to do with nonprofits and social media?

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Model Activities Active Activism 98

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The system is the same as last year, with a few refinements, including more social media sharing options. Most commonly, communities form around an issue, a cause, or even a campaign on many different types of social media, and stretch across platforms. Community Driven Social Impact. There are 25 proposals on each page.

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Proposal Louisiana Map NTEN 134

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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Participatory Arts Design Museum 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. With this in mind, when we produce participatory experiences, while our impetus is to serve our power users with extra content or “check for understanding” interactives, there are so many other ways to use interactives.

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Museum Participatory Interaction Classroom 35

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The examples were all around us, not just in the voices of speakers but in the physical sites where we met. The host venue was a living, breathing example of how museums can serve as community catalysts. There wasn't one.

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Museum America South America Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. I think it is quite possible to translate the Signtific Game to a real-life experience.

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Museum Comment Experiment Participatory 34

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

So when the folks at the think tank asked us to make a media piece to address one problem we saw with the current setup, I decided to do a little experiment in visitor-driven navigation. I'd had a good experience earlier asking a guard what he recommended--it had taken me into a gallery I otherwise would have missed completely.

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Experiment Lesson Learning Museum 44

Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. The experiment requires you to go to a public space and do three things: Talk to a stranger. Get two strangers talking to each other.

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Design Experiment Seattle Social 20

AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can make this an educational experience and spread the tastings out throughout the evening or you can make it a small portion of a larger party, kicking off the tasting around midnight. Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . Virtual Game Night.

Virtual 52

Virtual Ideas Game Classes 52

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. My biggest question for these social psychologists is this: how do we apply their lessons to our work? I wanted to know more. That didn''t happen.

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Measure Arts People Museum 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report analyzes many examples of networks and provides tools and tips for Network-Centric Grantmaking. Diana Scearce, who I’ve had the pleasure of working with on the Network of Networked Funders project, is the report author. And, how can funders leverage them for good? The report is pure gold.

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Network Report Empowerment Structure 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. It forecasts the changes we will enjoy as social media tools allows people to put their talents and goodwill to use for society. The book give us the 50,000 mile high view.

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Participatory Lesson Social Media Review 95

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

Among other things, I led a workshop on "social objects" --artifacts and exhibits that inspire people to point, discuss, snap photos, and generally share their experience both with friends and strangers. There are two parts to the workshop: Social Object Hunt. Make it (More) Social.

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Museum Technique Taiwan Social 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

For example, if location information will prove useful in tracking place-based impacts, best to build this metric into registration from the start, rather than try to capture the information later. Seeing how others are doing this work can help you develop or improve your assessment plan and lead to improved results.

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Metrics Method Tech Government 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

There are lot of productivity journals out there, for example, “ Best Self ” and I have reviewed those for inspiration for different checklists, formats, and questions to ask regularly. I also had a glorious week-long experience working along side the co-founders of Wake on the Tech2Empower program in Guatemala.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2008

One of the key benefits of social media is that you can actually be in two places at the same time. I wanted to attend the session by Alexandra Samuel from Social Signal about community building. Alexandra's slides will be posted on slideshare - but all accounts it was great participatory experience.

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Life Community Slideshare Participatory 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. questions that draw from personal experience, not abstraction. speculative (what if?

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