Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. We know that leadership isn’t just about talking about the problems, it is also about discovering solutions. What are the points of pain, strengths, and opportunities?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process. The best way to measure how you’re doing and what problems need solving is by asking real people. Invest in audience research and usability studies that include people with disabilities. Focus on content.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

What's less obvious--and potentially, a bigger problem--is the self-censorship we perform to avoid doing things that seem ridiculous in the eyes of our peers. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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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. We were asked to reflect on how the objective represents Women’s Leadership and to find a partner to discuss our observations and get to know each other. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? Is this a problem? Impersonal guards. I think so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Reflective Practice. Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Here’s just a few: Instructional. Peer Learning / Coaching. Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Strategic Dialogue.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. Reflective Listening Techniques. Be aware of what they say, how they say it and body language.

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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. Always start and end with something creative.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. Several participants reflected on how it is easy to fall into that trap and looked at beginning to schedule more time with people to build relationships that give them inspiration and energy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Harvard Business Review, March 2013.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. The workshops topics included. Mississauga, Ontario: Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

But here's the problem. And here's the bigger problem. Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. I don't entirely trust these reports. It's great that museums are a trusted source of information.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Digital organizing: Once communities are digitally literate, they can use the tools to advocate for addressing the challenges and problems they are facing. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. These may include things like mobile phones, cameras, or even drones.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. The exhibition is far from perfect, but it's a big step towards reflecting the "thriving, central gathering place" of our strategic vision. The Love Lounge I LOVE.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

So when the folks at the think tank asked us to make a media piece to address one problem we saw with the current setup, I decided to do a little experiment in visitor-driven navigation. The pictures I took are full of life and reflect the diversity both of the museum collection and the audience. Want to take it to the next level?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post. Particularly in an age of cultural and political division, Bedoya argues that leaders in the arts need to responsibly and boldly intermediate among many voices, using a combination of ethics and aesthetics to make policy and artistic decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Sometimes the enemy of innovation is not solving the right problem. We finished with a group photo and fun co-creation reflection. After projects were funded, we’d continue the virtuous circle by returning to listening mode.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2017

The mission of the Skid Row School is to train leaders to scale solutions to the world’s biggest problems as rapidly as possible. Our participants reflecting local age/income/ethnic diversity? Last month, I went to an amazing training called the Skid Row School for Social Change. Is it partnerships and participation? Social bridging?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. If you want to have impact, if you want to change the world, you have to work on an important problem. I don't care what important problem you choose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork. I designed the course to reflect lessons learned from my doctoral research. A premise for this work is that we need to be better at working collaboratively???whether

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I'd always joked that my dream job was to design pinball machines--a technical problem wrapped in creativity and pleasure. Now, as a freelancer, my work combines long-term, creatively challenging participatory exhibit projects with lots of little workshops and brainstorming sessions with institutions around the world.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans. Well, does it reflect our mission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. His reflection " When do online/computer simulations add the most value ?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. But here's the problem: the vast majority of people who read your blog aren't reading it because they want or plan to comment on it. Blogging can be a wonderful way to take time out from your life to reflect, even if no one reads it.

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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. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

And for most institutions there's no practical solution to the problem. In contrast, organizations that feature staff or member walls celebrating people's diverse talents and interests reflect the idea that this is a community of people who care about each other. This is terrible, both for the visitor and for the museum.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. The problem is aestheticized, framed, or reconfigured; it is seldom erased or resolved.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Ghosts of a Chance is a great example of the museum leveraging a niche community (ARG-ers) to energize and provide seed content for participants who are new to participatory gaming. that the attendance on that day would be a real reflection of how the game went. are frigging cool indeed.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So if you have to leave early, no worries, if you get interrupted, maybe a kid barges into your room while you’re working from home, no problem, maybe your boss bothers you, don’t worry, we’re going to get all that good stuff in your hands. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods.

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

As Charlene and Josh put it: Everyone who shops knows that products have problems, but it's the rare retailer or manufacturer that actually fixes them. I admit that I have often jumped directly to "embracing" in exploration of how museums can become more participatory. Loblaw has that reputation now, which means a lot to its customers.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. The problem arises when expertise creates a feeling of entitlement to control the entire visitor experience. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. In these conversations, people often say, "don't expert voices matter?"

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