Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. Every time we collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organization and communication. We realize collaboration differs greatly for each individual and organization.

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Collaboration Community Tools Museum 55

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The first of these reasons is practical.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

One area we cover is social awareness, the ability to recognize and understand the moods of other individuals and teams that we collaborate with professionally. C hallenge assumptions : “What do you think you will lose if you start sharing responsibility for the implementation process?”. Reflective Listening Techniques.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

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."

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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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? 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. Why Use One?

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process. Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions?

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Museum 2.0

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. We didn’t go through an extensive planning process followed by deliberative, careful steps forward. 85% of our visitors attend through events.

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Museum Director Participatory Culture 55

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. It''s impossible to process everything I am learning from these four psychologists in just one blog post.

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Measure Arts People Museum 47

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? They show the creative process, and many visitors may be inspired to create their own art in response to that on display (e.g.

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

This technique was used in the Slavery in New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society and continues in the popular StoryCorps project. It was the lengthy progressive response process that turned what is often a series of brief and banal comments into a rich archive of visitor experience.

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Design Goal Difference Platform 31

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

This conference will examine our role from multiple perspectives, focusing not only on the skills we bring to the fundraising process, but also the importance of the internal relationships that make certain those skills are used, and valued. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Chicago, IL / Not available. Technology.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Outreach for your program or to connect with potential supporters. Hiring people. Step 9: Wiki Wiki.

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Remix Professional Technorati Wiki 50

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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. Opportunity Collaboration. Opportunity Collaboration.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Growth hacking: a process of rapid experimentation to identify the most efficient ways to grow a business (or cause!). Growth hacking is more of a mindset of experimentation than tactics and techniques. It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” Radical Collaboration. Old power works like a currency.

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People Structure Influence Voice 25

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. If you want to publish on your blog or web site, it is a two step process. s in-box.).

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Screencast Instruction Instructional Tag 50

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.”

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Journal Change Learning Technology 101