Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

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. Ask a lot of questions beforehand to understand technology comfort. Except when it isn’t!

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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. Across the museum field, the questions about visitor participation have gone from "what?" If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

One of the questions that comes up most frequently when I talk with folks about participation is: what should we do with the things that visitors create? This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. What's the "use" of visitors' comments?

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

We develop our skills by seeking, absorbing, questioning, adapting, and experimenting, oftentimes bringing diverse influences together to create something that’s unique for our clients’ needs, but with connections to other relevant spaces. Community is key: working with, not for. This is key to building relevant brands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Her answer to the question about capacity building programs leading to better impact will surprise you. I dug into the link between the wider theories of capacity development and building strong, resilient nonprofit organizations capable of achieving impact in their communities and on the issues they tackle every day.

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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.” And how could MobLab best support the creation and/or health of that ecosystem?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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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. But I left uneasy, grappling with questions that plagued me throughout the conference. You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. Can you give me the overview of Community Science Workshops? It thrives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

Knight Foundation and Monitor Institute published a new report called “ Connected Citizens &# that looks at the impact of networks on communities, and asks, what do these emerging networks mean for community change? The report asks a number of impact questions related to networked citizens and the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. As Clay Shirky says, “A society where everyone has some kind of access to the public sphere is a different kind of society that one where citizens approach media as mere consumers.&#

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Participatory Lesson Social Media Review 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. The most important question to ask yourself before you start: If measurement shows you are not on track to achieve your goals, are you willing to change course or establish new goals altogether? What do you hope to learn?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. MyHerefordshire.com: communities of efficiency. Communities; twitter, rss, threads; in person; by affinities; passions. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

There are so many big questions about the connected world we live and how it transforms our society, as this opinion piece from CNN discusses. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet. Why aren’t we talking about nonviolent approaches to resolving conflict?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

At a recent talk, a colleague from the Exploratorium asked me a very simple question. How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve? I didn't quite know how to answer this question.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? This isn't just a rhetorical question. The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. I would add a fourth model, tentatively called co-option. The scientists control the process, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

” Many consumers may find it difficult to find the useful and accessible information — and when you consider that there are 30 billion health related google searches a year, it can be a challenge not to get overwhelmed or go down the wrong path. .” This “Dr. The number of applications for ALS research has tripled.

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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. Lots of chatter beyond the Reddit community. He gave numerous examples of how pervasive access to the Internet has changed families, the nature of work and society.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2013

This is the last of the guest posts offered during this fall season, and it dovetails with last week''s post about opening up collections access nicely. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

And widely accessible. Lesson: Have faith in your community. In GISKIN, Pandora and Drake aren’t museum people: they have no special knowledge; they ask the same questions the audience is asking and don’t always get answers. They leave LOTS of room for the audience to ask their own questions and fill in their own answers.

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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. The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy!

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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. Introduce yourself if you haven’t, say hi, but ask questions, you know, leave comments. That’s awesome.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2012

While not wholly explored, that question reverberates throughout a new book, Blueprint , that shares the plans for the Dutch Museum of National History. This book club will work like the others (see the "Book Discussion" keywords on the right to access past ones). Three years later, at the end of 2011, the project was canceled.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Barry Hessenius recently wrote a blog post questioning the theory that more art into the school day will increase and bolster future adult audiences for art experiences. What kinds of tools and media they can access. Imagine if every community theater was a development theater for a bigger one. But now it''s everywhere.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

We were discussing the potential for cultural organizations to have significant impact across communities: on planning, health, education, and quality of life. It has wide sidewalks and lots of public transportation access points. The point of the festival was artists and communities imagining potential futures for Market Street.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I've long believed that museums have a special opportunity to support the community spirit of Web 2.0 as physical analogs to virtual community platforms. People who engage deeply in any online community, whether a bulletin board or social networking site, want to meet in person. meetup for Elite Yelp! Before they held the Yelp!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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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. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). The answer to that question depends on your values.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Making radio more accessible in Ghana. Where Radio Maria collected and re-broadcasted incoming voice content, Volta Star in Ghana focused on improving access to radio segments by posting outgoing content. A potential future subscription model, for example, could allow a user to purchase prepaid airtime for unlimited monthly access.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. The project arose from a grant announcement from MetLife Foundation around community engagement and outreach. How and why did Object Stories come to be?

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Ask questions, introduce yourself, if you haven’t already. You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. Steven: Want to give it a few more seconds and I’ll go to the next question? There’s a Q&A box and a chat box. Renee Rubin Ross.

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Video Nonprofit San Francisco Question 123

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

I learned new vocabulary and questions to ask myself and others, but the exercise itself felt a bit frustrating and haphazard. A company in which program recipients are involved with governance suggests a community board model. A company in which employees are co-owners might translate well to a coop model.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

I've seen several museums experimenting with inviting visitors to take action, make promises, and join communities of intentionality (here's a post with examples from 2007 ), and the USHMM effort is particularly compelling for some specific design choices made in the development of the pledge wall.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

I had heard some influential museum leaders raise the question of what a wiki museum might look like, and I wanted to explore that and related concepts. In the last year, I have seen traditional museum attitudes about social media and community co-design go from "why should we care about this?" I started the Museum 2.0

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