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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project. Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general. Key is a participatory development process.

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. Tweet conversations about you.

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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. When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We exist for people who live in Santa Cruz County.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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Thoughts on 3six5, a Successful Participatory Project

Museum 2.0

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. The reward for participants of having your contribution displayed is fairly and clearly structured.

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Growth Hacking Your Mission With People Power

Connection Cafe

Growth hacking: a process of rapid experimentation to identify the most efficient ways to grow a business (or cause!). For causes, this can range from increasing conversion rates by testing simple design tweaks, to nailing rapid response and raising $24M in a weekend. It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.”

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. It is our turn to make history. Cause Camp 2017.