Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. Throughout the session, we’d divide into smaller groups or pairs to learn from each other more collaboratively. 4) Keep learning and adapting with each group. Except when it isn’t!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. Community Organizing. Participatory Gatherings. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. How can people--staff, volunteers, community members--help make this project better? But even developing that open call was a participatory process: Wes worked with other staff to think through how the residencies could work.

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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. The result, Our Museum , is an extraordinary funding program with a focus on community participation. didn't mince words. Here are my three top takeaways.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

I've long admired this museum for its all-encompassing commitment to community co-creation , and the visit was a kind of pilgrimage to their new site (opened in 2008). The institution is community-funded, staffed, and designed. a "wedding worthy" community hall). a "wedding worthy" community hall). 5'11", 6'1", etc.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

And you've decided that you want to integrate community feedback into the development process. Here are ten things I've learned about making these kinds of community input meetings successful. Consider whether you want a bonded group (people who are like each other) or a bridged group (people who are different from each other).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. They have built an authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. re not creating a billboard, but rather starting a conversation -- you have to be willing to respond." Go read it. each of various qualities.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

We refrained from taking photos, because we wanted to foster an atmosphere of candor and comfort as grantors and grantees engaged in conversation about a difficult topic. An advisory group and planning group gave crucial input about the strategy and tactics for this event. Both groups can help by: . My Recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Last month, I participated in a Design Thinking Lab with network leadership practitioners convened by the Leadership Learning Community. After finishing the share pairs, we did a quick full group “popcorn” of the ideas that bubbled up. We were assigned to small groups to work a specific theme.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. We went to the genealogy group, and a whole bunch of them submitted.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. Part of our approach to community involvement in planning Spun had to do with necessity; we needed help to pull this off. What inspires them?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. MyHerefordshire.com: communities of efficiency. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky.

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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 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. And the conference itself resonated with joy, participation, and community.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

This post was written by Evonne Heyning , part of TechSoup's Community team. Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Tweetchats — A TweetChat room opens with a hashtag like our recent #NPtagging conversation. We think Watchitoo. Connect with us at NCVS or online.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Troubleshooting online and in-person — pivoting conversations, interrupting, encouraging conversation, covering if the presenter doesn't show, etc. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. Next, Daniel Ben-Horin gave us the context of the TSG Network and hopes for the future that would emerge from the conversations over the next few days.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. We are a community of museum bloggers who write from a variety of perspectives and museum disciplines.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. The Denver Community Museum (DCM) was a grassroots operation in almost every sense. This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It gave me a chance to really think about how we have been opening up our museum and what it means for our community. We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today. The theme of TEDxSantaCruz was "Open."

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

But as Sarah pointed out, that communication is one-way: from front-line to office, never from office to the front desk. And so we decided to try something really simple: a private staff Facebook group. Within just a week of its creation, the "MAH Stories" private Facebook group had proven itself as a ridiculous success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

And the many, many hyper local and niche causes that touch the lives of their online communities not by the millions, but by the hundreds or thousands everyday. Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. Tweet conversations about you. Yes, that difficult word, BUT. And that is the crossroads.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2017

Groups and associations across the social sector have proposed this measure to increase charitable giving across all taxpayers and potentially minimize any negative impact of tax reform on charitable giving. Check out the following groups, subscribe to their updates, and involve yourself in the conversation: Alliance for Charitable Reform.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up recently. The Brooklyn Museum just finished the public stage of GO , a "community-curated open studio project." Voting on individual artworks turned each one into a social object worthy of lengthy conversation. 1,708 artists participated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

For more on these projects and to meet the people behind them, check out the upcoming Games for Change Festival (April 21-23 & 25), NYC’s largest gaming event and the leading international event for games with impact, bringing together the social change community and game makers. government and encouraging participatory democracy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2010

How, he asked, could a large museum that serves hundreds of thousands of people per year foster the same sense of personal connection and community that a small one can achieve? I think small museums are generally better than large ones at fostering local communities of visitors and members. Complicity makes big places feel intimate.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

All these objects and stories together we call our ‘community of objects’. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Preparation and tools used for the structured conversation At the Uitmarkt we were looking for ideas for new objects and personal stories.

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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 the co-creation model, visitors and the institution work together from the beginning to define the project's goals and to generate the program or exhibit based on community interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Crisis communication strategy. Disaster work.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

A national election is the ultimate participatory project. Advocacy groups of all stripes fall over themselves to give you opportunities to get involved, fight the good fight, fund the need, defeat the bill. Why not build a grassroots movement to define the most effective ways we can make our communities stronger?

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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.”. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes. Participants were tasked with creating a concept poster, timeline, or magazine cover to share their idea with the group.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. We have an incredible group of people working together at the MAH right now. Building an amazing team.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution. It was terrific to have a packed room and a long, open conversation (we split the session into half presenting, half audience discussion) about these issues.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Community engagement, though at times unwieldy and time-consuming, is critical to truly propel all variables towards a common goal. Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. It’s a good group. I wish I could see you all because so much of what we do in this work is building community.

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