Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. Participants got to introduce themselves with "just three tags," picking three key words that describe them. David Sasaki has a terrific reflection on that here. Tags: technology training training materials. Tactics is doing, moving, and acting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Because this is a webinar connected with an online community, I've been reading the threads on the site to understand attitudes better.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

These thoughts changed how I moved, and dance became a self-conscious, self-critical experience, which was a bigger reflection on how I lived life and viewed myself within it. When I first started teaching dance fitness, I approached it with a more serious attitude, as I had found my strength studying martial arts. And, myself.

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JULY 8, 2021

These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. They could even complete a ratings-based assessment before and after learning a topic, to test how their opinions, attitudes, or mindsets surrounding the topic changed. Uploading existing questions and authoring new ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

I asked if I could live tweet to bring others into the conversation which I did using the tag #packfound. . The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. We knew what was coming.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science. Tags: professional development. And these conversations weren't exclusive to the program events. We need to create some collaborative structures (probably on the web) for continued dialogue and mutual support.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Do a Google search and you can find a great deal of research on virtually all aspects of interests, attitudes and aptitudes for Gen Y, Gen X, Boomers and the Matures. The internal silos must be broken down to reflect the multiple channels and need for message consistency across those channels. " Mark Twain.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 6, 2010

The key to your success is in what you think about, in what you say to yourself and others, in what you believe, and in what your attitudes are about yourself and others. Tags: General Fundraising Inspiration nonprofit fundraising. I encourage you to visit her website and sign up for her newsletter at www.innerresourcecenter.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

We also had a wide range of attitudes about the use of social media - from healthy skepticism to excited practioner. As a result, the questions and insights shared were rich and varied. Tags: network effectiveness. Communication tools are appropriate given member skills. How do work in a networked way and not get overloaded?

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Initially, the shift from "accidental techie" to a career NPtechie is more about a change in your own attitude than anything else. Look at the experience and skills you already have, and reflect on your goals and the skills you still need to in order to reach them. Step 1: Call yourself a career non-profit techie !

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

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?" Small, quirky projects like the public art geocaching exhibition in Bellevue, WA , and inspiring surprises like the Living Library program and book-drop based tagging at the Hague.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 11, 2008

It’s acceptable for me to only respect the parkgoers and services that reflect my values. But if I were a parks interpreter, an experience provider, that attitude would be reprehensible and highly derogatory towards guests. Tags: inclusion comfort. As an experience consumer, I have the luxury of being a jerk.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

Reading The Great Good Place provides an opportunity as museum professionals to identify third places in our community, reflect upon our relationship to them, and consider the ways our museum could be a third place for members in the community. Tune in next week for a reflection on the book from another perspective.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2008

The older part integrated a lot of interesting spaces into the museum—like for example for a James Turrell exhibit they had a lounge outside with comfy chairs and materials and places to share your reflections on the exhibit. Tags: design comfort. Friendly lighting so you don’t have the scary feeling. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2007

Nick Serota, the Tate's director, commented that "'the public display of four artists' work spurs people to reflect about art.'" Secondly, the Tate appears to take a populist attitude towards the Turner Prize. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0 As Serota said, "there's nothing sacrosanct about the status of any prize."

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 28, 2009

As Elsa Bailey asked in the chat: "Don't cultural attitudes toward the definitions/descriptions of happiness come into play here? This long reflection on external motivation relates directly to the core mission of museums. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out game. In the meantime, I'm curious to hear your thoughts.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Reading all of the responses, I was surprised to see that the vast majority (not reflected here) threw their audience out the window as a perceived obstacle to truly innovative design thinking. Tags: design visitors. My feeling as an exhibit designer is that I need to work somewhere between artist and product designer. What about you?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2007

It’s no surprise that positive in-person interactions that support a variety of languages, attitudes, and experience in museums can be the biggest factor in promoting inclusion. Which reflects a more basic question: who are museums serving, and how does their design support that customer? Some are simple design choices—like at the MFA.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2009

Tags: 09NTC NPTech NTEN. The list of sponsors and exhibitors that I had the pleasure of working with this year is impressive, as well, and we thank them for keeping registration fees lower -- and for spicing up the event. . Check out the analysis of that spirit !

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2007

Of course, there's a basic tension for museums that feel both "the obligation to be reflective and considerate, and the seeming imperative to react to emergent issues." In many cases, it's not the content but the attitudes with which content is presented that marks whether you are riding the crest of a new wave or adding to the fossil record.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

Why not apply the same attitude to our own staff? And we don't know yet whether the exhibits that will result (the first set in physical form in June 2008) will reflect the unusual energy and populism of the process. Tags: virtual worlds design Tech Virtual. We argue that "play" is not a dirty word when it comes to visitors.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

About the Study Participants This study reflects the attitudes and behaviors of more than 800 respondents throughout the United States with household income greater than $200,000 and/or net worth (excluding the value of their residence) of at least $1,000,000. There are 75 pages of statistics and trend information in the report.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Functionally, we should be the way we wish politicians would be: responsive, interested, intelligent folks who can understand audience desires and reflect them back in meaningful and sometimes challenging ways. When have you seen museum programs take visitors to the next level, pushing their participation, their attitudes, their comfort?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2007

When everyone in an organization is led by the same story, the organization's content output reflects that story and a mythic central storyteller. It speaks in a distinctive, unapologetic voice--whether that voice reflects a single person or a team. Tags: storytelling exhibition design. Which is the one that will change my life?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

They weren’t similar in temperament or attitude. Reflecting on the time a task takes and if that is the right amount of time can appreciably improve the way you work and therefore how you feel about work. You’re looking at a Harvard apple vs a Community College apple, say. Some people can just write. Some can’t.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change. I’d love to see someone fully imagine an institution that would be that third place, and then see how we could adjust museums and libraries to reflect those (or not). Tags: professional development. Let’s change that.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

We didn’t have explicit criteria for selection—it came down to whether a piece was outstanding and reflected the theme. There was a “let’s make it happen” attitude that I think was really appealing. Tags: storytelling design Unusual Projects and Influences usercontent. The CMS tabulated how many times each submission was read.

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