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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." each of various qualities.

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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This accomplished a few things: I didn’t have to trash my plans and revert to a traditional lecture. I made it participatory so participants helped move the furniture. It also provided a nice transition between sections, giving people a little brain break to digest the information. Have you ever had to do a room hack?

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New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits To Improve Resilience in 2021

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment.

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Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies?

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I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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What Issues Do Millennials Care About?

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Initially, we act in small ways to satisfy the brain’s desire to take the path of least resistance. The brain is an economic model that is always trying to gain the largest return on investment. This tells the brain that others believe like you do. The individual needs others in their network to care about the issue too.

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Foursquare and Nonprofits: I want to Be The Mayor of Brooklyn Museum

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I've also been trying to wrap my brain around whether or not Foursquare has value for nonprofits. Incorporating the use of a location-based social networks seems a natural for museums, given the move towards more participatory institutions and how museums have embraced mobile. So, have been updating arts 2.0

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? The above shows the methods.

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