Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2013

We asked participants to do a “think and write” and jot down one idea that resonated before facilitating a grand synthesis of what we learned about designing more impactful capacity building programs for grantees. You can read my guest post over the Communications Network Blog that summarizes these insights.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 29, 2008

One idea that I'd like to try out here is a new weekly feature on Have Fun * Do Good called, Ask Britt: Q & A on Career Design for Artists and Activists. Now I work with people on-one-one, and facilitate workshops, like the one I did for Stanford's Social Entrepreneurship in the Bay Area Spring Break.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. My first remote job was to work with a virtual team to manage an online network for artists, called Artswire. Virtual meetings that are not well designed and facilitated can also mean a loss of productivity. Time Keeper: Keeps time. And, always have a plan B.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

To facilitate more cities' participating in ARTBreak Day, Art is Moving is offering an Artist in Residence program for artists to bring ARTBreak Day to their communities. During ARTBreak Day, Art Sites are set up in cities for people to take a break, and make art for free.

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Candid

OCTOBER 1, 2021

MacArthur Foundation announces 2021 fellows. September 29, 2021 The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced its 2021 class of MacArthur Fellows. Popularly known as the "genius grants," each fellowship includes a "no strings attached" stipend of $625,000 paid out over five years. Read more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The process was facilitated byPeter Maher, founder and CEO, of Luma Institute. Is it only used by people with artistic talents and graphic design skills? Understanding: Methods for Analyzing Challenges and Opportunities. I really enjoyed how Peter Maher, CEO and Co-Founder of Luma-Institute facilitated the session.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Creates an environment that facilitates fundraising Regardless of whether you do face-to-face fundraising, ensuring that the organization is prepared to fundraise is the development professional’s main priority. The forward-thinking development professional performs the following six practices: 1. Do you serve K-12 students? Senior citizens?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. It’s our way of embracing and spreading the abundance that working a networked way offers. Why am I excited about this project?

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JUNE 1, 2023

It is a celebration of the LGBTQIA+ community in Madison and also exists to support artists within the community. The first PrideFest was held in 2020, and since then, the celebration continues to be held every year on the town green. Support PrideFest by becoming a sponsor or donating for a pride sign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Help the facilitator understand who is the room at the beginning (demographics, experience, attitudes, knowledge about the topic) – a quick and dirty participant assessment. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. Support a fun icebreake r.

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JULY 22, 2013

She came to NTEN after launching a Chicago-based consulting practice for nonprofits and artists. She loves facilitating unconferences and retreats, volunteering at Chicago farmers markets, and indulging both a longtime penchant for film photography and a newfound one for Instagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This week I was in Austin, TX for SXSW Interactive Festival where I presented or facilitated at several social good sessions or events. The failure bow is what trapeze artists, acrobats, and other athletics do after a fall so they let got the fear of making a mistake. Do the failure bow.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2011

Hanson led a 12-hour telethon that featured over 40+ artists. Second, we would focus on taking the campaign to off-line events as much as possible to facilitate meaningful connections between the online and offline world. What you will change the next time? Hindsight is always 20-20. There are two things we’d do a bit differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

When you read this post, I’ll be on a plane to the facilitate the opening plenary at the Legal Services TIG Conference on Wednesday, Jan. Trapeze artists do it, improvisers, gymnastics stars do it. Watch this brief video clip and you’ll recognize it. It helps us come to terms with mistakes and clear us for learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. There are over 200,000 professional artists in the US — and a bunch of them have problems the techies could help solve. Trust me. What works?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. What is your favorite Traveling Postcards success story?

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AUGUST 25, 2011

As a member of the board of YNPN (Young Nonprofit Professionals Network) Phoenix, I have been fortunate to cross paths with some extraordinary emerging leaders, facilitators, mentors, and nonprofit sector thought leaders. Like this article? Get another!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. The facilitation was as chaotic and fragile as a spiderweb. Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Last June, I facilitated a leadership workshop at the Americans for the Arts Conference where I tested some of the assessments and checklist tools in our book. Their program includes about teaching artists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? Concept 2: Mission: Possible.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The ads were hailed as beautiful, artistic, and innovative. Facilitate two-way dialogue to make supporters feel heard. Key Takeaway #5: Measure Participation Ogilvy had a client who was launching expensive prestige advertising campaigns that received lots of industry acclaim and creative awards. Highlight growth in conversions.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. The result was a true experiment in designing the future--right here, right now--with artists and planners and civic leaders at the helm together. Thousands more conversations during the festival.

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JULY 11, 2012

That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above). He is an authoritative artist of the social web with a slew of accolades and a suite of diverse projects under his belt.

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AUGUST 7, 2013

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. The View from an Authorized Entity Many Bookshare users (and potential Bookshare users!) In the popular online acronym, IANAL (I am not a lawyer).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Ann Wizer is an artist who uses design and education to protect the environment and reduce poverty. Ann is an activist and an artist. Premal talked about the need for creating magic for the users and building in workflow software that was facilitated relationship building through the ladder of engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. The Joe Goode Dance Company spoke about the challenges of getting an artistic director to Tweet. But not all the artists are comfortable on Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2012

I feel great about both of these goals, and I feel even better about the amazing artists , innovators , and historians we're working with to make it happen. How do we facilitate visitor experiences in these spaces? We're also curious to see if an evolving project draws people to come back again and again to see how it grows over time.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." We asked people to make a voluntary donation of up to $150 to help support the facilitation of C3, and snacks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

We are currently trying to raise $40,000 of our $200,000 budget through Kickstarter, the online fundraising platform that facilitates grassroots investment. We set a target goal and must raise that amount or lose all pledged funds by the set deadline of 12 p.m., January 21.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. I remember her community of clocks project -- she facilitated content creation from schools around the world on the theme of clocks. Meet Susan Silverman.

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JUNE 21, 2015

They’re facilitating Q&A sessions and panels, including the media panel with Matt Higginson from Medium and Sarah Harris from Incite. to meet artists and solicit assignments from them that everyone can participate in. IN-PERSON LEARNING LABS. The Art Assignment. The Art Assignment takes viewers and participants around the U.S.

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MAY 9, 2012

The site has social media integration to better facilitate sharing and collaboration. The global production team included filmmakers, photographers, artists, architects, and designers, some of whom were volunteers. Users invite others to collaborate by creating a group; the group creator is designated the administrator.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Recently, I had the opportunity to facilitate two design labs with nonprofit professionals. This concept was acted out by artists that brought the game to life in a very funny way and it prompted some fun (non-scarcity mindset) thinking. And, that’s an great way for change, from the bottom up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. This is about facilitating discovery, nurturing trust, sharing experiences, and light-weight focused request/responses.”. What ecosystems facilitate serendipitous discovery and collaboration? Doing good isn’t our job, it’s everyone’s.

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