Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

I’m giving away a free registration to NTEN’s Leading Social Change Summit. NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. What great about this conference is that we will have creative immersion and change to “sleep on our ideas.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. Even the people who benefit from the organization’s mission can provide valuable input on the strategic plan. Seeking their participation in the strategic planning process can give them this connection.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

To learn more about knowledge work and its role in grantmaking, check out the post Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work is Core to Equitable Change. However, datamaking has added power because it can beused to deepen strategic social processes of foundation-funded change. These are opportunities for meaning making.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. I feel lucky to be a small part of that change. That said, there are a couple big things I got wrong in the book - or at least, that I''ve changed my perspective on since writing it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. People voted by clapping.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

This is a cultural shift that involves everyone; nonprofit leaders and staff, board members, volunteers, donors, foundation leaders, members of the public and others. According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

My New Year’s rituals help me let go of things in my professional work that can open the door to positive change and growth. These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. During 2020, I keenly missed the energy of being in the room with people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. 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."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." When the music video was focused on Mexican culture, the researchers found that the white and Asian participants demonstrated a decrease in prejudice against Latinos, both immediately after the activity and six months later.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. To do this, the library didn't create a complicated computer system or send people online. She said that it gave them a good understanding on what the people in the neighbourhood like to read.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

According to Frumkin (2002), nonprofit organizations are “ideal vehicles for foraging networks of weak ties that link people together.” Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. Putnam (1994) further illustrates the link between engagement and social capital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. Well Being is about self, others, and organizational culture.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

Simon knew something had to change. “We She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. The impact was dramatic. Within three years, attendance tripled.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" We're hearing on a daily basis that the museum has a new role in peoples' lives and in the identity of the county.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The Latin American delegates in Medellin reimagined change on a level beyond what I've experienced in other places. We met in Medellin--a city where cultural institutions were instrumental in turning crime and fear into hope and beauty.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

It felt like change was breaking through. There is power IN the platform--power to shape the way people participate. This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum. Traditionally, museums and cultural organizations offer programs. This is the participatory platform model.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Like many museum and library professionals, I am enamored of the idea of cultural institutions as “third places” – public venues for informal, peaceable, social engagement outside of home or work. People make fun of each other and laugh loudly. People make fun of each other and laugh loudly. Facebook discussion board here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. This creates a tsunami of sticky notes. If you ask people one-by-one to share and post their sticky notes, it can take a long time and get tedious. The features include being able to easily create different color sticky notes and type in notes and move them around the board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. They started by recording thousands of stories or 19,181 stories to be exact told by people from areas where GlobalGiving partners work.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

But we've just compiled all our attendance data for the past year at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (our fiscal year ends on June 30), and several people have written to me asking for the numbers behind our turnaround. People wanted a fire festival, so we did a fire festival. Right now, all we do is count people.

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MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. People are showing up, getting involved, and sharing their enthusiasm in droves. THINGS I’M MOST PROUD OF: Redefining our role in the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” ” He started off with the story of Chelsea Welch and Alois Bell to illustrate how civic life has changed in the last 5 years. ” He went into details about how people consume or share content via mobile phones vs tablets.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. It's not unusual for me and our public programming staff members to have several short interactions every week with newcomers who walk in the door with idiosyncratic visions for cultural engagement. The magic isn't by design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Note from Beth: I went to my first Games for Change Festival ten years ago, in 2005 and have been a fan and supporter ever since. government and encouraging participatory democracy. The game will also be playable at the Games for Change Festival, where its creators will engage in an in-depth discussion of their process and purpose.

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MARCH 16, 2009

Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. You can mount challenges that are effective in spreading the word and making our message accessible to more people who can make their own decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. Like all good stories, they story of Ushahidi holds several different lessons: People want to do somethiung to make the world a better place. “Start small.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

Imagine you want to invite people to meaningfully engage with a serious topic in an exhibition. I was reminded of this "care, then act" framework when I saw a recent story about a student's experience at a powerful issue-driven exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, Half the Sky. How would you do it? age/gender unknown).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

LinkedIn has a new feature where people can congratulate each other on work anniversaries. It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. We have an incredible group of people working together at the MAH right now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. It is a useful technique for creating a more responsive, flexible organizational culture as well as coming up with more innovative ideas for programs and grants that are a good fit. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

There is a perception that you have to have dirt and stitches to change the world for the better. We are changing the world and there are stories to be told. Our job is to get those people, those lives, those schools and communities to want to tell our stories. People love to talk about themselves! Make it fun!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

This is a big change for me--professionally and personally--and I'm thrilled and humbled by the opportunity to take on this position in the city I call home. There are three reasons that I am absolutely ecstatic about this change. Dear Museum 2.0 readers, I have some exciting news. OK, now on to the interesting part.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Museums can be incredible catalysts for social change. We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today. But they're not there yet. I know that not all public participation is substantive.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

with cultural professionals, I like to use Tim O'Reilly's simple definition: software that gets better the more people use it. There are many participatory kiosks that are functional black holes--visitors make videos or draw pictures or write stories, drop them in a slot, and. When I talk about Web 2.0 nothing happens.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change. But how do deal with that much data?

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