Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

As a participant, it was fantastic to chat with other people about these questions. The big themes that emerged included: How do we get people to value both the journey as well as the goal? How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective?

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. January 2018 : Ok, can we agree on some best practices how to address this as grantors and grantees? My Recommendations. Funders can help by: .

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sgEngage

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. What is Participatory Grantmaking? Whether organizations start with a single grant program or incorporate a participatory approach across all their funding, there are a variety of ways to practice participatory grantmaking. And several ways not to do it.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

While much of the branding and design inspiration we run across is either from consumer brands or individual artists, it all provides us with the opportunity to discover new principles, practices, and approaches that we can incorporate into our nuanced nonprofit world. What would the structure be like? What about content?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. The exhibit opens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. I also participated in two other sessions, one about communities of practice moderated by Holly Ross, and one on philanthropy. Photo by Glenn Hirsch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. Community members, artists, and organizations increasingly see our museum as a place where they can advance their own goals, and so they approach us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. How To Become A Virtuoso Listener: Practice, Practice, Practice. Ask Good Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. 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 call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles. I wish I had done a structured creative thinking exercise to get people comfortable.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy! We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video. So what did you do next?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale. Naming our goals and our culture. We wrote engagement goals. Making co-creation sustainable and powerful. A lot of that is institutionalized through naming.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. My goals are two-fold: to develop a dynamic, creative, social platform for my community and to distribute its successful elements to other civic learning institutions (museums, libraries, community centers).

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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." That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most. Facilitator bits.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. The Wikimedians’ and museums’ goals were not as aligned as they originally thought. In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

We’re unapologetic about connecting people with history and with art in new ways, even if those ways are sometimes in conflict with more typical museum practice. We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. We're a place you can work off your traffic ticket.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. How can institutions better welcome and integrate this community into their educational advancement practices?

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Nonprofit Best Practices / Chicago, IL / Less than $700.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

This is not to say that the virtual designers didn't work hard to make their ideas in-line with our museum goals--in fact, we could have given them much clearer and stricter criteria and they would have thanked us for it. Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Community engagement, though at times unwieldy and time-consuming, is critical to truly propel all variables towards a common goal. Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. What are some of your goals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

What did you discover and how can you incorporate it into your practice? The best approach is to learn blogging is to create a personal professional development blog - a blog you use to write reflections and learnings about your subject area or personal learning goals. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

Our primary goal for pop up museums is to bring people together in conversation through stories, art, history, and objects. Check it out if you’re curious about choosing a strong theme, working with a collaborator, designing a portable structure, or tips for implementation. guestpost Museum of Art and History participatory museum'

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Much to my mom's relief, I stayed in school but remained deeply suspicious of the artificial structure of grades and gold stars. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. I know the practical answers. But the practicalities are only one part of the story. What's your goal?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The goal, from IMLS’s standpoint, is for NAS to create a report that can address the fundamental issues facing museums and libraries in the 21st century, with an intended audience of industry professionals, trustees, funding sources, and government representatives. A museum, a library, or something else?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

Why and how museums could develop their co-creative practice with the public, building on ideas from the performing arts and other non-museum organisations (free to download). She also notes that this goal helps performing arts groups produce higher-quality experiences for audiences, participants, and stakeholders alike.

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