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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Design must comes first. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. Have people share why they chose or rejected certain items. What participatory techniques have you translated from in-person meetings to online meetings successfully?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Year in Review During the first two months of 2020, I taught workshops and facilitated digital transformation innovation labs in London and Warsaw. Training & Facilitation: I have been facilitating online meetings for many years and when the pandemic hit, I was very busy teaching these techniques to nonprofits around the world.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

She noted that you want your data to be representative of real people. She went on to say less predictable: “ People think that social change organizations should go slow and carefully. We deserve the best people and tech. The panel was facilitated by Di Dang, Google Developer Design Advocate. Well, screw that.

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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. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can empower people across locations to share their individual ideas and build on others’ ideas. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. What do we do when technology (or the people using the technology) do something unexpected?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Humans empower each other. Build community.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition showcases collectors from throughout Santa Cruz County--people with collections from animal skulls to dryer lint to priceless historic flags. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. As we have seen over the last decade, with the power of connectivity comes the opportunity for people with similar interests to come together and organize themselves in ways that transform geographic boundaries. It downloads and it captures. New power is made by many.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The summit will be an opportunity for deeper peer learning for nonprofit change makers in three theme areas: digital strategy , impact leadership , and the future of technology. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes peer learning. Rather than just talk about the campaign, students has to participate.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Instead she drew people personally into the stories again and again, asking us to compare our own and our ancestors' experiences to those she described.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. My audience included many people who were blind. I modify instructions or make accommodations for physical disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. Have you ever had to do a room hack? What was your experience?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Now add a layer in your mind showing the people represented in those circles and lines. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making.

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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. A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

I’ve always dreamed of accessing a diverse network of people who do nonprofit capacity across different disciplines or what Nancy White has described as “ learning from adjacent practices.” Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations. Funder misalignment on movement needs.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Most importantly, they create an uplifting, celebratory atmosphere perfect for bringing people together during AAPI Heritage Month. It’s inspiring to see when people understand the impact of their support, isn’t it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. The design challenge was: How do we come up with concrete tools, frameworks and methods for helping people better understand and adopt network systems leadership?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. Not only is the content superb, but I also observed and took notes about some excellent participatory facilitation techniques. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Network assessment.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Facilitator bits. You did great. They sound obvious, but several took me years to figure out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I know that might seem old fashioned, but being a trainer and facilitator and in the room with social change leaders is what inspires and energizes me. This past year was my 4th year as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College.

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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. Alan Gunn was the moderator/host and the participatory design did not disappoint. The started with some big picture frames.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

According to Frumkin (2002), nonprofit organizations are “ideal vehicles for foraging networks of weak ties that link people together.” He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.”

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to help support the NTEN Community Challenge , which helped to enhance NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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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 went into details about how people consume or share content via mobile phones vs tablets. Alois Bell was a diner at AppleBee’s in St.

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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

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. People voted by clapping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. Organizational Awareness: the ability to understand the politics within an organization and how these affect the people working in them. Pay close attention to interactions with other people.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. People talk. People talk. I take the same bus every day and recognize many of the people on it. One guy sings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

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. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). How many people will be monitoring and managing your accounts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

It brought together a rich mix of people working in humanitarian causes, using social media, and creatives. Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. Many passionate people and stories. . deation conference hosted by Charles Lee. The description: The !deation

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