Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 10, 2019
Their space is designed for local nonprofits to connect, share ideas and develop solutions together. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. If you already know the wheel chair users in the meeting group, ask them for advice.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 1, 2010
This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?
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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.”
Museum 2.0
APRIL 14, 2011
The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. The content is multidisciplinary, with a collection that includes both local history and contemporary art. We'll need advice. There's even a historic cemetery for good measure.
Museum 2.0
MAY 19, 2016
The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. We almost always use nametags with a playful prompt on them ("what superhero would you be?," "what's your favorite local place to relax?" Provide snacks and drinks and a bit of time at the top to enjoy them. Use their input.
Have Fun - Do Good
JULY 31, 2009
I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. Obviously, local civic journalism is incredibly important to me.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 12, 2006
" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. In Ethiopia, she did organizational capacity building work for a local network of NGOs. The tools can be useful for in-country connections, in local languages, or north-south connections. PersonallyI see a huge potential for web2.0
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