Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I got a chance to meet her face-to-face for the first time at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in 2007. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

If you are interested in mobile technology and its application for social change projects, this is definitely an event to check out. It is barcamp style, so come with your questions and topics you want to talk about; come meet lots of others interested in leveraging mobile technology for change and collaborate!

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San Jose Mobile Tech Change 100

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? If your activity is compelling because it involves gimmicky new technology, it's not a good activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. 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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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

We develop our skills by seeking, absorbing, questioning, adapting, and experimenting, oftentimes bringing diverse influences together to create something that’s unique for our clients’ needs, but with connections to other relevant spaces. we had to quickly pivot and learn new technologies and platforms to move their galas and events virtual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development. Networked Facilitation. Community Organizing. Any many more.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

The process was a collaboration in itself, with TSNE MissionWorks , and Essential Partners serving as co-hosts. These dollar amounts might be for staff time, technology, training, an external consultant, or even for office supplies. Making “I don’t know” an acceptable response to a question.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Museum programs need to then actively respond to their communities through a variety of ongoing discursive, collaborative and inclusive formats that address needs and assets but also invite communities to be active participants in this process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My role was to deliver components of the Networked NGO curriculum – sessions on network mapping, challenges assumptions about networked ways of working, as well as training on how to use the online collaboration platform for their together moving forward. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Elliot will be talking with participants about technology planning for nonprofits, and Evonne and Susan will be talking about interactive online events and social media tools. Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Ask your technology questions in our TechSoup forums. We think Watchitoo.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? This isn't just a rhetorical question. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. The key to networks is connections and reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

Stefani gave an overview of health care technology trends and some projects that Google is working on. Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” They had four collaborative research projects, ideas were there but money not before the Icebucket Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was drastically different from the Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN’s flagship event that has over 2,000 attendees, dozens of tracks and hundreds of panels, big parties, a trade show, and all the things you would expect from a traditional conference. Then we opened up for discussion.

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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.”. The purpose of the Design Lab was to answer two key questions to gather input for its strategy: How can the Brainerd Foundation and its philanthropic partners accelerate the transition to 21st Century advocacy for grantees?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Jane McGonigal and the folks from IFTF have released a new future-casting game/collaborative experience called Signtific Lab. questions because I believe they invite anyone to creatively respond, unlike "what is?" questions, which imply a correct answer. question and allowed open response, it would not be as good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

She starts off with a post that summarizes what she and her colleagues have been writing about as it relates to " Second Wave Adoption " and online collaboration. This has been bubbling in the back of my mind, but looking at nonprofits and adoption of social media tools or what I started to call the participatory nonprofit.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

starts to point toward the more collaborative environments that are being termed "social media" these days. And indeed, we find VRM being discussed on sites like "The Social Customer" blog by Christopher Carfi, which is trying to evolve models of customer service and marketing that assume a more empowered and participatory customer base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

I met Janet Salmons many years ago while I working on various arts and technology projects in New York State for the New York Foundation for the Arts. Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

I'll be collaborating with colleagues online to further plan our sessions and online materials. Those of us that provide technology support for nonprofits get asked a few questions over and over (and over and over) again. They don't pay me to say nice things, I truly believe in the nonprofit technology community!)

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Nonprofit technology, and more! The Agents of Change Summit aims to unify and expand the community of professionals using marketing and technology to change people’s health and lifestyle behaviors for social good. Technology / #AOCS16 / @AOCSummit. Technology. Technology / @SGTWeek. Technology. Fundraising.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization. Please feel free to comment or ask questions about topics on the forum, but I'd prefer if only those who think they might actually attend vote. meet my husband and parents-in-law.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning. Consider other family-oriented products: toys, media, schools.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It also has some interesting lessons about collaboration in design; there's a lot of acknowledgment and discussion about the positives and negatives of bringing new technologies (digital audio manipulation) into a classic venue (radio). They ask each other the dumb questions a listener wonders.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. Then we started working with our local design and technology firms— Ziba Design and Fashionbuddha —and in the prototyping, it became clear we had to go another way.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Nonprofit Technology, and more! 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

SL has the potential to add a new level to the existing web technologies. Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. Come on, get real already.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

It would have been very easy to send out a tweet or Facebook update with a link to the article and some version of the question, "what do you think?" This afternoon, they issued a lengthy collaborative statement. This is why I always say that participatory tools are about relationships, not technology. They met in person.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators. What questions or suggestions occur to you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

I am the director of a non-profit that promotes open museum practices, and we are in midst of launching a free service for arts organizations: a web site that permits any museum to create a participatory exhibit space and social network centered on the museum's collections. It takes content, strategy and elbow grease. A Few Whuffie Winners!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." Again, the technology today may be unsavory or clunky, but these possibilities are on the horizon and there are some institutions experimenting in this domain. What others should we consider?

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. For example, disability justice activists shared links to their proposed social model of disability on the platform, making it easier for peers and reviewers to learn about the concept and ask questions.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? over email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s Maybe it is more like moment capture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi’s board , like its staff , work together virtually across many time zones using different online tools for meetings and collaborative work. iHub one of the best ever co-working technology spaces I've been in. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion. I don’t teach that way.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

Suzanne Fischer is Curator of Technology at The Henry Ford in Dearborn, MI, and Eric Johnson is a librarian and New Media Specialist at Monticello in Charlottesville, VA. The ideal of third places, that attracts we cultural heritage types, is a democratic space where civic life is built collaboratively and at a personal level.

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