Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a convening on “Data Informed Philanthropy” hosted by the Packard Foundation – not only was the content compelling (stay tuned for a post on that), but it was also a fantastic opportunity to observe one of the best facilitators I know, Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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JUNE 16, 2022

Despite its urgency, most foundation funders do not incorporate climate or climate justice strategies into their work, largely relegating it to a few environmental funders. It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

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. Examples: #BlackLivesMatter leaders, Candidate Obama, and Beth Comstock. It downloads and it captures.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

When you teach internationally, it is important to localize your content and Tharum was able to provide many local and regional examples and tips. He spoke about networked mindsets and how to work across sectors. So, it was really a great honor to co-teach a master class on digital strategy and two crowdfunding workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. What do you want to learn from working together?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. .” I also include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I spent today at day 1 of the TechSoup Global Summit in Mountain View with two hundred and forty people who work in the TechSoup Global Network around the world, plus other stakeholders. Plus it is always a pleasure for me to observe “Gunner’s&# facilitation techniques (I learn so much). Photo by Glenn Hirsch.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. You Examples. Are you working on a community-driven project or looking to start one?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Plus, my track facilitators were great!) 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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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. I got to facilitate a deep dive with a dozen folks and here are the takeaways from the discussion. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. A starting point for envisioning a future state in which data is the ‘GPS of philanthropy.’

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. He gave numerous examples of how pervasive access to the Internet has changed families, the nature of work and society. Instructional Design Notes.

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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. Non-Participation 6.

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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? I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Why Use One?

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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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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. They can contribute their own stories, objects, and creative work to exhibitions. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible. Evergreen Cemetery Board Game.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Digital citizenship: In the final stage, communities can use these tools and knowledge to work with governments and affect policy. For example, in post-earthquake Haiti, Dd trained and empowered local women to track and document incidents of gender-based violence. Key Challenges in Working in Remote Areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The book looks at how ICT can help solve global poverty issues in a range of fields, including disaster relief, health education, micro finance, and education. It is filled with great examples and stories from around the world. The book is well-researched and offers frameworks for thinking about how to link technology to a theory of change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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. Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Where it didn''t work, no local support stepped up. The municipal support can be actual funding - from Parks and Rec, or Environmental Education/Public Works in Watsonville - or a free building, or free access to a van, or materials. What unique design elements make Community Science Workshops work? For example, kids and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

today, I took a break from working on something else and decided to summarize a bunch of conversation threads on social media, social media burn out, listening, second wave adoption, and participatory nonprofits that are flying around me so I could begin to make sense. m doing at the moment (hardly a cutting edge example).

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Can you give an example of the kind of Museum Hack activity that makes this different from other museum tours? Here’s an example that I experienced on that first tour of the Met. I think that for the two museums in which we work, it might be A. comfort interactives participatory museum programs Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

For example, when we held community meetings about the development of a new creative town square next to our museum, a group of middle/upper-class moms talked about not feeling safe downtown. When you are doing creative work together (making, building, brainstorming), it's catalytic to work with people who see things in a whole different way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

That said, there are wonderful organizations working with State Governments to improve literacy and reading levels across the country such as Pratham and the Akshara Foundation and much progress has been made. YouTube : Documentation of our work and to inform people about some of the initiatives we are participating in.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. What we do know is that both the online and offline work of every non-profit can be enhanced by a dynamic online community in which organizations and users support one another.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. I tried to address the Smithsonian's particular challenges and opportunities while contextualizing it with lots of examples across different museum sizes and types. I am an impatient person.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. We each worked individually on our own sets of cards, coming back together for discussion as we progressed through the various stages. readers, who I see as potential co-conspirators).

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

The point of this experiment is to play with design conditions that support both facilitated and unfacilitated engagement with strangers. And while I’ve been exploring venues , situations , and apparel that serve as social objects, I’ve found few examples of explicitly designed social objects. It’s ok if you fail as long as you try.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. Practical examples.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

How do we appropriately extrapolate from what works in interpersonal relationships to develop relationships between organizations and users that are authentic, meaningful, and positive? I'm curious to hear what you think works and doesn't as well and I hope you'll share your experiences in the comments.

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