Museum 2.0

APRIL 12, 2011

This travel wave is ending soon, but I wanted to let you know about three upcoming events that are either available online or still have space for new signups: Monday, April 18, I'll be giving a talk and workshop in Hartford, CT with the Connecticut Humanities Council. This link is not yet live but will be on the 22nd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2012

Mari mentioned in an email was that one of the women in this workshop was a lawyer, who heads up WRAPA (Women’s Rights and Protection Alternative) and LACVAW, a coalition of 70 orgs working on rights issues (see below). Says Mari, “ She was very sharp and immediately understood and saw the potential.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 16, 2011

Show Notes I have three workshops coming up: May 14: Blogging for Writers workshop at the Writing Salon in Berkeley, CA. August 5: I'll be at BlogHer '11 in San Diego and leading the idea generation portion of The Write Brain – Essential Blog Content Development Workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. I like this alternative to sticky dot voting! The Happy Healthy Social Change Activist: Passion for a Cause without Burnout Workshop.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

Alternatively, arrange pickup times and locations where participants can safely retrieve their wine and cheese before the event. When hosting an in-person auction isn’t an option, a virtual silent auction is a perfect alternative to raise money for your organization. Virtual college + career prep workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

More than 125,000 people signed this online petition at Change.Org and lists of alternatives to Google Reader started popping up like this one from Lifehacker and list.ly. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I use an online thesaurus called Word Hippo to come up with alternatives and try out different versions of the copy. If you want to dive deeper into the word of fundraising writing, I teach a 10-lesson course called The Writer’s Workshop. Finally, Understand Yourself and Your Own Process. More Resources for Fundraising Writing.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

To understand if moving some of the organization's core systems to the cloud would be a feasible alternative, he attended a free consultation with Tech Impact's Linda Widdop at the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). Using Tech Impact's Office 365 DIY Migration Workshop. " Advice to Other Accidental Techies.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 18, 2017

Our students engaged in three days of workshops and brainstorming sessions across a wide variety of topics, including: leveraging social entrepreneurship, organizing grassroots social movements, and building strategic partnerships. Our students did a tremendous job of being leaders and carrying themselves with pride.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Community science workshops. Machine Project is a non-profit storefront arts venue that hosts a dizzying array of eclectic classes, workshops, events, and occasional exhibits. I've been spending time recently interviewing people who run unusual cultural and learning venues. Skill-sharing free schools. Machine Project (Los Angeles, CA).

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AccelEvents

JULY 21, 2021

In addition to Virtual Venue, Eventcube also has its Broadcast product, an alternative live streaming product that helps streamline your event ticketing and online event process. All of the platform features are user-friendly and both interactive and customizable. Primary features include: . Event customization / white label.

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Care2

JUNE 5, 2012

Frogloop fans in the DC area are encouraged to register for a free morning workshop on Multichannel Fundraising Strategies -- hosted by our friends at Big Duck and the National Wildlife Foundation, and being held at our own Care2 DC office on Thursday, June 14th (9am - 11am). Association of Alternative Newsmedia Convention Detroit, MI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2015

This reminded me of Margaret Wheatley, who was the keynote speaker at a conference in Alaska where I was doing a workshop a few years ago. We worked with a partner and had to alternate counting to three. Taking his workshop is the best way to learn these skills. Her points about leadership and change.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 18, 2022

In order to maximize their donation potential, nonprofits could embrace creative, diverse fundraising alternatives to monetary contributions. If your organization has access to providing unique, customized experiences yourself, such as environmental conservation causes hosting walk-and-learns and/or native gardening workshops, even better!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

This is where you identify the learning goals, audience needs, existing knowledge, and other background by doing audience research. Ideally, audience research should be done before you design your workshop or course. It is also important to target the right level of authority.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

To understand if moving some of the organization's core systems to the cloud would be a feasible alternative, he attended a free consultation with Tech Impact's Linda Widdop at the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). Using Tech Impact's Office 365 DIY Migration Workshop. " Advice to Other Accidental Techies.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

The team wanted to create a platform for both mainstream and alternative events. The winners will participate in a series of workshops to help them develop their go-to-market strategies. These workshops will cover topics such as user experience, marketing, and pitching to potential investors. Second Place: Curtain up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2013

I like to use as a closer, but perhaps it could be offered as an alternative for the introverted in the room. How do you learn best at conferences or workshops? .” You get people to quietly debrief in writing what they learned. Do you want endless content or do you need some ways to process what you have learned?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." This has been invaluable learning process because Dave's insights have sparked the above reflections. (Here are a few resources defining critical friends - here , here and here ).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. What's it like to work in a virtual exhibit workshop? The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2008

Demetrio Maguigad , New Media Manager Community Media Workshop Almost two years ago,  I did a workshop with David Wilcox in Birmingham for LASA. Next week, I'm bringing the game to Hawaii Social Media Club Workshop and was hoping to mix in some Aloha spirit.  You can find David's training games here.)  

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

As one option we are thinking about workshops that could run for a day, with game-playing to start things off, some hands-on exploration of different social media tools, followed by more detail on who might do what to put things into practice. Alternatively, you can of course hire us to come and run a session!

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Host a Passover seder as an alternative to the rubber chicken dinner or spaghetti supper. Reach out to talented local artists, galleries, and museums to see if they can donate pieces, workshops, or behind-the-scenes tours to support your cause. Pass the Plate at Passover (varies; usually late March/late April).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

Dave Cormier published a paper recently entitled "Community as Curriculum" and that phrase has stuck with me as one way to think about workshop curriculum projects that are being developed in a networked way like the NTEN project. The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2008

It's been awhile since I've shared the progress of The Tech Virtual , the web and Second Life-based virtual exhibit workshop that The Tech Museum of Innovation opened in December of 2007. You can read other posts about this project by clicking Tech Virtual in the "Past Posts By Topic" sidebar on the right.) But that's just a start.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. You consider marketing a crafts night as either a workshop or more of a social gathering, or even offer them both. 7) Shopping. 8) Digital download donation rewards.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2011

I attended a workshop recently about "Fundraising using Social Media", and I was shocked when the conversation headed directly toward advertising. But on social media, creating a small active community of supporters that is engaged and active provides an alternative. Social media is leveling the playing field in the nonprofit sector.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

but I felt like I didn't have any alternative formats to draw on. I'd spent years leading workshops around the world as a consultant. I knew that I didn't want to replicate the droning report-fests I'd encountered in other jobs. The weird thing is that that wasn't true.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. Based on the Loyalty Lab workshop, we're now talking about experimenting with a "bring a friend" challenge.

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Care2

MAY 11, 2011

Along the way Boaz met with inventors, entrepreneurs and government leaders and told the story of alternative, sustainable transportation in an interesting way. Another alternative is to ask people to fund your hotel stays or donate their points in various hotel reward programs. Boaz ran his trip as a free agent story teller.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2015

Open is the alternative to the traditional methods of controlling intellectual property and authority with a focus on delivering the broadest possible access and encouraging reuse. Review the IP status of your collection and the permissions related to broadcasting lectures and workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Teresa Crawford is in Kiev in the Ukraine doing a workshop on Web2.0 for NGOs there. Are you spending too much of your day in your email?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2012

We often talk about museums as leaders in providing substantive, essential alternatives to formal schooling. We’ve also done short technology workshops to enable content experts to create their own videos. I asked Beth Harris and Steven Zucker about their experience working at Khan Academy after years in academia and museums.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Mental Health Workshops There isn’t a community in the entire country that couldn’t use more mental health support. Mental health workshops address the critical need for awareness and support. Similar to health clinics, providing a site to host the workshop is great, but sponsorship and general support help too.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Our programming director will arrive at 7pm on the dot from a six-hour rehearsal of a collaborative devised theater piece seven months in development and will leave early to go to an experimental movement workshop.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 16, 2009

Imagine workshops led by inspiring rock stars from gaming, festivals, and special effects. There will be discussions, workshops, immersive activities, and plenty of time to relax and seduce the creative genius inside you. Imagine activities that actually encourage you to spend time on said beach. Imagine making and playing together.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

If you attend a workshop, you won’t just listen to a speaker; you’ll work alongside other nonprofit professionals to create something unique. If you attend a workshop, you won’t just listen to a speaker; you’ll work alongside other nonprofit professionals to create something unique.

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