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Finding The Best Board Retreat Facilitator – 9 Things To Look For

Kindful

The best facilitators will confidently take you on a journey of exploration, education, discussion, and planning. No one wants to listen to a stoic facilitator pontificate behind a lectern reading lame PowerPoint slides. Facilitating a high-impact, memorable retreat is an art and the best facilitators are master artists.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. WHO (slides 3-23) "Community” is not an abstraction. That’s why we partner with fire sculptors, knitters, graffiti artists, and bonsai growers.

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A Community-Driven Approach to Program Design

Museum 2.0

There are many amazing community representatives from business, arts, education, and social services who connect us to powerful ideas and partners. We had about thirty participants ranging from MAH trustees to artists, educators to architects, moms to grandfathers. Here are the slides so you can see what we shared.

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The Social Life of PowerPoint Presentations (or why I really love SlideShare)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got an email from an instructor at Standard University continuing education who plans to remix it and an email from someone in Italy who will translate the game and fundraising case study into Italian. In fact, I have a " Remix This PowerPoint " presentation up on slide share right now!

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Meet the 2012 Digital Storytelling Challenge Judges

Tech Soup

Let's meet the folks who will decide which one-minute videos and five-photo slide shows take home these excellent award donations from our generous partners. Aaron Bramley is co-founder and director of communication/education for Lights. So who are these hard-working digital storytelling junkies? committed to social change.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! 09 was the first version I used).

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10 Amazing Environmental Nonprofits You Need to Know About

Tech Soup

Cary Creative Center in North Carolina is an upcycling nonprofit that provides used artistic materials to people. Here is a list of just some of the things it does: Advocate and educate on the 350 bird species that live in the region. Educate about the effects of climate change. Cary Creative Center — Third-Place Winner.