Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Start by focusing your assessment on the outcomes that your app or platform is most directly designed to produce (such as increased trust between neighbors or resident contributions to a specific local decision-making process) rather than on very broad overarching goals like “strengthening participatory democracy.”

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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. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey. Walking Meetings and Video Platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing Change for Good by Nedra Kline Weinreich. I love the checklists, her thoughts about the impact of social media and behavior change, and the DIY market research techniques. The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising by Mazarine Treyz. You can pick up a copy here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

Video Guides for Nonprofits. See 3 Video Guide: This step-by-by video guide goes from the picture to the techniques of story telling and into editing and marketing. It's one of the better guides out there for nonprofits. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide.

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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 ). Crisis communication strategy. Disaster work.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum. Dear Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. Use the "hot pen" or automatic writing technique. A small group volunteered to take this work forward to establish a shared vision we can then use to guide us to more collaboration in the coming months. The goal here is to write down as many as possible.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

I'm not talking about guiding content; I'm talking about guiding form. This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project. What design techniques do you use to create successful visitor dialogue experiences?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

We never received a “how-to-guide” for collaborating with community members here at the MAH, but over time, we have acquired some basic tools that have shaped our approach. We offer these tools in the spirit of sharing and look forward to learning about the techniques you use in your own community.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This is a long post focused on strategic uses of listening rather than specific techniques. For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. What does it mean to listen to the groundswell?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

I first learned about this technique from Sam Kaner''s excellent book, Facilitator''s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. To me, this is analogous to the benefits of having multiple staff members engaged with community partners on participatory projects. Tag Team the Facilitation. Yes, it can be inefficient.

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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. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. Explore and discover other bookmarks using this guide. adoption strategies ( remix from Association 2.0). Step 1: Find People. Hiring people.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Deconstructing the Social Experience As a designer of participatory experiences, my biggest question about Artprize is what made all these conversations and experiences happen in the first place. There was no "show" or overriding theme of each venue or gallery, no sameness of technique or content. Was it the gritty urban setting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. Getting Started Guide as a first step and review other help documents as needed. Act 2: Definitions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2010

no tour guides or game masters), you need to start by designing personal services for users, then linking up users through shared interests or objects to promote interpersonal connections. Many people engage directly with strangers on stage five to discuss images, the stories behind photos, and photographic technique.

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