Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Philanthropy for change, not charity.

Philanthropy 98

Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

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. The five-year journal helps you look back as you look ahead.

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Journal Reflection Facilitation Technique 148

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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Registration Leadership Impact Change 128

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. .

Guidelines 106

Guidelines Participatory Case Study Philanthropy 106

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

They wanted to help museums and galleries across the UK make significant, sustained changes in the ways they engage community partners and visitors as participants in their work. In its first five years, Our Museum yielded real change at twelve diverse UK organizations. Most major change doesn't happen when things are going well.

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Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

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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Causes Change Museum Social 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory. We had some money.

Participatory 44

Participatory Museum History International 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Circulations - shaping the flow of media (e.g.

Participatory 50

Participatory Teen Vlog Mashup 50

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Use performance measurements sensitive enough to detect gradual changes so that small scale initiatives can be informative. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. At the same time, remain aware that data will fluctuate before trends and causal relationships can truly emerge over time.

Measure 52

Measure Create Arizona Participatory 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Typically, it takes someone seeing a situation that needs to change and doing the work to change it. Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. Because when you are focused on social change, the work you do won’t always show up annually. Will something go wrong?

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 66

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

To get beyond it, I think we need – each of us individually and in our networks and professional work – to experience and reflect and get better at the ways living in the digital age is the same as, and different from, the analog age.” ” [If you are in NYC on September 24th, PDF is hosting an author talk ].

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104

Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Perhaps the dramatic changes to work and home life brought on by the pandemic sparked a greater understanding of accessibility. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process. It’s not a way to design—it’s simply design. The future: Accessibility as the norm.

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Accessibility Goal Virginia Audience 71

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Attendees brought up questions about how they can get more involved with financial discussions in their institutions, how we can change the ways we approach fundraising, how we can think about earned income differently. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday.

Reflection 43

Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Maybe he share some reflections in the comments - like for example - about the making of the video which is quite good in terms of production values, although not glossy campaign video. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are!

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Meme Participatory Campaign Flickr 50

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. We were asked to reflect on how the objective represents Women’s Leadership and to find a partner to discuss our observations and get to know each other. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

Our session will change the way you design and deliver technology trainings. It also has been fun to reflect back on training sessions I’ve designed and facilitated over the past 2 decades as working as trainer in the nonprofit technology area. Over the last few years, I’ve used my blog as a transparent reflection tool.

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Training Train San Jose Instructional Design 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

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? It just creates a virtual outpost for change.

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Participatory Museum Web Indianapolis 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags. Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience.

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Reflection Conference Resource Arts 69

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

What you see here are a few notes that reflect my individual experience. As far as I can ascertain, this series was the first in which grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients came together in equal numbers and met as peers for reflective structured dialogue. Sharing responsibility for building the relationship.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Grant Data Boston 52

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009). There is no golden standard.

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it. 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.

Design 105

Design Course Leadership Network 105

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

Museum 45

Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Social issue interests change. Therefore, brands should not focus on the changing interests; rather, focus on helping the public participate in a movement. This is especially the case when individuals are going through several lifecycle changes and have yet to filter their cause involvement internally and more methodically.

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Issue Brain United States Participatory 52

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. I gave an hour-long talk about participatory design practices ( video here ), and Jim gave a small tour of an exhibition he had organized nearby.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

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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Audience Washington Museum Intergenerational 49

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

Last week, the local newspaper did a really generous front-page story on my museum (the MAH) and the changes here over the past eight months since I started. Our team focused this year on just three things: making the museum more comfortable, hosting new participatory events, and partnering wherever possible. Community response.

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Audience Museum Participatory History 47

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. Successful” artworks draw out qualities in the collection, reflect material histories, and show the artists’ process and conceptualization. Restoration is a formal gesture for most museums.

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Artist Museum Proposal Participatory 49

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. The contributions that are the "best" may be a narrow reflection of your own personal preferences.

Design 45

Design Participatory Learning Instruction 45

Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

Many of our events in the past year have fallen more heavily on the art side of the ledger, and as a museum of art AND history, we want to make sure we're reflecting the breadth of Santa Cruz culture. We've been toying with a participatory future-casting program and or a storytelling series to start moving in this direction.

Museum 47

Museum History Arts Artist 47

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2012

In this full-time role, you will be responsible for interactive exhibition development, project management of all our site-specific work, and you will lead the redevelopment of our permanent History Gallery into a more dynamic, participatory, and flexible space. Will it give a sense of energy and change?

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Participatory Museum Blended History 32

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

What followed, instead, was a 20 minute phone call that changed my day and has had a powerful impression on me since. Now that I have been a Dial-A-Stranger, my perspective on this has changed. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers.

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Reflection Museum Podcast Participatory 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I have felt in the past that some of the MCA's holiday videos were a bit too pretentious, but this year's edition is full of joy and a message that really reflects what they do in Denver. I'm sometimes wary of studies of "innovation," but I like how this one could be used reflectively within an organization to assess openness to change.

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Denver Museum Arts Participatory 33

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

It’s almost Spring and a thousand theories of change are blooming like the cherry trees in Washington, DC. The most important question to ask yourself before you start: If measurement shows you are not on track to achieve your goals, are you willing to change course or establish new goals altogether? What do you hope to learn?

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Evaluation Measure Seattle Lesson 95

Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

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. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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Museum Director History Teen 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

Social media thought leader Charlene Li has published another book titled “ The Engaged Leader: A Strategy for Your Digital Transformation ” that provides organizational and business leaders with the skills and path to habit change they need to lead in a connected world. It levels the playing field for all followers to respond.

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