Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

Nptech 100

Nptech Unconference Open Source Model 100

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

Public 36

Public Research Participatory Report 36

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.”. The next step in the process was for participants to evaluate some of the ideas using a 2×2 called the importance/difficulty grid. Making: Ideation and Rapid Prototyping. All together, participants came up with over 500 ideas. (Of

Design 50

Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In the past year, I''ve seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies?

Museum 45

Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In the past year, I've seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies?

Question 49

Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2021

When the vendor is good, and the relationship between client and vendor is stable and collaborative, the project will be successful. Lack of a structured process for quality assurance (QA) testing and remediation. Was the collaboration a success? A chaotic process for decision-making on design and other deliverables.

Project 58

Project Digital Work Tips 58

sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It has created more structure and consolidation across the organization and saves money too. Our teams needed collaboration tools and ways to work remotely, and as an enterprise, we needed to set standards, modernize our technology, and move to the cloud.” We have a lot of new apps all the time—maybe 10 since I arrived.

Advice 72

Advice Tech Sharepoint Grant 72

Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

Our success—and yours—relies on open communication, continual collaboration, and genuine trust between both of our teams. Evaluate creative work based on effectiveness, not opinion. Collaborate on evolving the work together. But don’t worry, we’re incredibly nice people, and most importantly: we’ve always got your back.

Tips 52

Tips Review Collaboration Team 52

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

It’s just a structured approach walking you through and it’s not necessarily, you know, the where all be all. That’s our internal evaluation of are they even ready? Because you’ll have permitting fees, you may have, you know, some design fees, you may have to do some testing with surveys or geotechnical studies.

Campaign 88

Campaign Video Project Process 88

Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

We have a short evaluation at the end and formal breaks for Q&A throughout the session, so we invite you to stay engaged. We also are practical, and agile, and collaborative. They had also never really tested out the capabilities of moving to a fully digital transformation state. We have multiple polls.

Policy 99

Policy Team Virtual Tech 99

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

For causes, this can range from increasing conversion rates by testing simple design tweaks, to nailing rapid response and raising $24M in a weekend. Radical Collaboration. The Networked Change Report from NetChange evaluated 47 of the most effective campaigns, ranging from the NRA to Occupy Wall Street.

People 25

People Structure Influence Voice 25

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.”

Journal 101

Journal Change Learning Technology 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2009

Like many other organizations, our hierarchical structure has historically disseminated information from our experts to our visitors. Collaborator. Our efforts must support our museum’s goals but we can test these waters, even failing now and then, and still move forward and evolve. Museums are changing.

Museum 82

Museum Arts Artist Conservancy 82