Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out.

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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. I also facilitated numerous design workshops and resilience staff retreats virtually.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

As a result, not enough funding is flowing to climate change efforts and even less of it for reducing harm to communities most impacted by the climate crisis. . It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. .

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Woodford and Preston list four main outcomes to validate stakeholder participation: helping organizations make informed decisions, facilitating stakeholder commitment and support, stakeholder education about the organization, and successful program implementation. Collaborate through field work and participatory practice.

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sgEngage

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

She went on to say less predictable: “ People think that social change organizations should go slow and carefully. They say,move fast and break things should not be applied to social change. The panel was facilitated by Di Dang, Google Developer Design Advocate. Well, screw that. We should move the fastest. ”

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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. 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. Humans empower each other. Make space for each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Since the theme this year was “Change Making,” I taught a workshop on self-care for change makers based on my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , co-authored with Aliza Sherman. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. We all love energizing beginnings and happy endings, but it is the middle of a process of change that involves hard work. Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide. Wallow in it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Design Labs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. So I engaged them in a discussion about term “walking meetings,” and how to change the name as well as make accommodations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Emerging Leaders Playbook: With the generous support of the Packard Foundation and in collaboration with Third Plateau Social Impact Strategies, we launched the Playbook Web Site that offers grab and go leadership development and culture change activities for nonprofit and emerging leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. There is no golden standard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

Starting Zoetica came on the heels of one of the most dramatic changes I made in my life in recent years. Geoff has moved on to working on exciting projects , including a book and Kami will continue the brand Zoetica working on strategy projects such as this important effort to keep.NGO domain in the hands of nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

The projects ranged from activating a dead collection to developing a mystery game around a strange artifact to developing a hackerspace to planning for massive changes to institutions new and old. Facilitator bits. To remedy this error, here are four things I've learned about facilitating brainstorming sessions. You did great.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist? We believe traditional community organizing helps to inform an effective online campaign for social change, and will lay the groundwork for a sustainable, long-term movement.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief. Engaging in ongoing dialogue that is facilitated by a third party who is experienced in creating a safe space. Studying (and implementing) community-based participatory research methods. __.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to help support the NTEN Community Challenge , which helped to enhance NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. ” He started off with the story of Chelsea Welch and Alois Bell to illustrate how civic life has changed in the last 5 years. Trying to get a head.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

This project wove together many different participatory threads. The facilitation was as chaotic and fragile as a spiderweb. It empowered our partners, deeply touched our visitors, and catalyzed real community change. Short story: we learned a lot. We wrote a toolkit about our process. You can download it for free right now.

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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? How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3.

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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.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. to change the energy system. ClimatePrediction.net: allow your computer, when not in use, to be used to help scientists run predictive tests for climate change.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. The driver provides live facilitation. I've written before about the power of live facilitators. People talk. One guy sings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. I got to facilitate a deep dive with a dozen folks and here are the takeaways from the discussion. Dana O’Donovan and Noah Rimland Flower, “ The Strategic Plan is Dead. Long Live Strategy.”

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible. To me, this is an example of how the aggregation of participatory practices fundamentally changes the role that an organization has in its community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The book is well-researched and offers frameworks for thinking about how to link technology to a theory of change. Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change , Mary Joyce, Editor. Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change , Mary Joyce, Editor. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2014

Hear Our CEO Speak on Technology and Big Ideas for Change. Why is change management so daunting, in the nonprofit sector and in others? NetSuite.org Opportunities for Consultants : Learn how to access hundreds of NetSuite grantees needing change management, accounting, ERP, CRM, website and other services. – 3 p.m.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined. How will it change the way we see online and onsite interactions?

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NTEN

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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Others are more formal, structured conversations that happen weekly at a particular time. #4change is a regular chat about social media change. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. This takes some facilitation. What other uses of hashtags by nonprofits are there?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I remember her community of clocks project -- she facilitated content creation from schools around the world on the theme of clocks. These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. How much has our environment, culture, or information overload changed?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

When they can give data in a report, when they can show a map that has detailed information, when they can show a photograph that produces evidence, it really changes the game for them." Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership.

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