Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

What has been your biggest technology disaster this year? Collaborative technology is incredible. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. Participants can respond to questions and add their thoughts and we can see each other’s faces.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Clearly, the challenge was more than just the technology. The panel was facilitated by Di Dang, Google Developer Design Advocate. The guidebook focuses on “participatory machine learning,” which actively involves a diversity of stakeholders – technologists, UXers, policymakers, end users, and citizens.”

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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. Sheet music is not a new technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists.

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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. As part of our class, students composed a question and recorded a video related to their area of study and sent it off to Davos. So far, two of my students have had their questions answered.

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MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers.

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JANUARY 5, 2018

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. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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JULY 11, 2017

I’ve always benefited from learning from colleagues who do nonprofit technology training and capacity but often we come from the same perspective. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations. And how could MobLab best support the creation and/or health of that ecosystem? .”

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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. The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief. These dollar amounts might be for staff time, technology, training, an external consultant, or even for office supplies. What is the heart of the matter for grantors and grantees?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is managed by the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in partnership with the DMU Centre for Social Action and Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre. To provide practical examples of how collaborative technologies can be exploited in a city context. Technology cards. Roles cards.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

That’s right, the session selection process is open for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference ! This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist? Vote today! Fundraising. Leadership. Voting will be open through September 30th.

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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? Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy. Why Use One?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

John McElhenney - Clear Green Technologies. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. A heroic ideal: our social and environmental problems are solvable; social entrepreneurship; information technology.

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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. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. Alois Bell was a diner at AppleBee’s in St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. We could also IM our questions from the adults were listening and observing. technologies don???t s based on the choices we make on the ground, within our own societies, for how we use these technologies. Again, it???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. The key to networks is connections and reciprocity.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. She's currently working on a book on measurement with KD Paine.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences. Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience.

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OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. What is it?

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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. In particular, I've enjoyed digging into the workshops that were held on Education , Business Models , Technology and Ops , Curation and Research , and Directors.

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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. Technology. t have a clue."

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Nonprofit technology, and more! The Agents of Change Summit aims to unify and expand the community of professionals using marketing and technology to change people’s health and lifestyle behaviors for social good. Technology / #AOCS16 / @AOCSummit. Technology. Technology / @SGTWeek. Technology. Fundraising.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Introduce yourself if you haven’t, say hi, but ask questions, you know, leave comments. And if there are questions that you’re like, “Oh, this is a really good one,” feel free to just say, “Hey, Julie, we got a good question here.” I know a lot of you already have. That’s awesome.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. What questions or suggestions occur to you?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

For me, the most interesting internal and interpersonal dialogue at Artprize was about these questions, which pushed me to more deeply consider how I make aesthetic judgements and experience art. I was too enamored of the social experience to care about expressing preferences in a technological, non-conversational way.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. You can view and download all the slides here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." Again, the technology today may be unsavory or clunky, but these possibilities are on the horizon and there are some institutions experimenting in this domain.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. The convenors set up a lovely wiki and gave us specific instructions to answer research questions posed on a series of pages. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. iHub one of the best ever co-working technology spaces I've been in. The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

Suzanne Fischer is Curator of Technology at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI, and Eric Johnson is a librarian and New Media Specialist at Monticello in Charlottesville, VA. We need to set up spaces in which doing the right thing--welcoming all kinds of people--is easy, facilitated and enforced.

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