ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture.

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

This morning I had the great pleasure and honor to present at Amplified Leicester about Community-Driven Social Impact, and run a short strategy-building workshop. They are also hoping to learn from and document their experiences to share as a model with the larger global community looking to do something similar. Presentation.

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Impact Community Social Phoenix 123

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). One of the things I always focus on in participatory exhibit design is ensuring that everyone has the same tools to work with.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. Build community.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

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. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation. We had some money.

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Participatory Museum History International 44

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Creative Power of Datamaking Focusing on the action of datamaking opens a world of possibilities for developing knowledge. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Policy 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. .” Funder misalignment on movement needs.

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Global Network Change Create 91

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. The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide.

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Design Course Leadership Network 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

He shared how he built a global cross-sector movement to support sanitation in developing countries. He was hilarious as he was inspiring. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. I’ll share that in my next post!

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Philanthropy Cambodia Impact Learning 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. Their space is designed for local nonprofits to connect, share ideas and develop solutions together.

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Detroit Instruction Instructional PPT 77

Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

One finalist's pitch was: "We have buy-in from the community, we have rich networks on the ground, and we are building on pre-existing technologies." Empowering Marginalized Communities Using Technology. Dd's mission is "to empower marginalized communities to use technology to defend their rights."

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Digital Community Haiti Netsquared 36

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Building a Community Across Platforms. Most commonly, communities form around an issue, a cause, or even a campaign on many different types of social media, and stretch across platforms. However, the real challenge is creating community across platforms. However, the real challenge is creating community across platforms.

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Proposal Louisiana Map NTEN 134

NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Last year, NTEN Community Champions helped to raise over $36,000 to help support the NTEN Community Challenge , which helped to enhance NTEN''s program accessibility, including sending over 50 people to the 2014 Nonprofit Technology Conference (14NTC) and the 2014 Leading Change Summit (14LCS) with scholarships.

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Donation Impact Share NTEN 64

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. Find trusted leaders in communities of interest with whom to partner and recruit participants. Designing a new program.

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Build Community Museum Participatory 35

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. Plus it is always a pleasure for me to observe “Gunner’s&# facilitation techniques (I learn so much).

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Global Network Participatory Netsquared 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What if a funder got real-time input from its grantees and other partners to develop its investment strategy? 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? In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Deliver targeted, cutting-edge social media training and coaching to 150 – 250 NGOs and CSOs in 15+ communities.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

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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Social Media Channel Data Media 100

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

How do community members make your institution better? Yes, we have the standard ways--volunteer programs, board service, and community partnerships--but I strongly believe that if we are doing our jobs right, every visitor who walks through our doors should be able to make a meaningful impact. Here's a picture of it in action.

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Platform Open Museum Participatory 41

Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2014

An idea generator is a facilitated discussion where attendees talk about problems they face in their social-benefit work. After a lunch break, we’ll be inviting developers and hackers to showcase some of their projects so the nonprofit and activist community can give them feedback on what they’ve built. on March 12.

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NTC Washington Advice Conference 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. community will look like, or how it will change the face of the non-profit web. The community is facilitated or sparkplugged by Chris Locke. This site, and the Net??

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Netsquared Project Community Offline 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. Practical examples.

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Develop Ghana Zambia Mali 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I first met Mary in 2005 through my connection with the Global Voices community and can say that Mary is among the most knowledgeable and experienced digital activists in the world. Open Community by Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. I read the manuscript this summer and provided blurb.

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Amazon Nonprofit Social Media Oregon 116

Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Here's a synopsis: Participation 1.

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Design Participatory Children Museum 49

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. We inspired a community and got real results. Give away the fun (and easy) part.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21

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? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum Difference Participatory History 29

Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

We were discussing the potential for cultural organizations to have significant impact across communities: on planning, health, education, and quality of life. While "final" versions of these prototypes would need to stand alone on the sidewalk, the best prototypes are facilitated.

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San Francisco Arts Design Marketing 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Last week, Douglas McLellan of artsJournal ran a multi-vocal forum on the relationship between arts organizations and audiences, asking: In this age of self expression and information overload, do our artists and arts organizations need to lead more or learn to follow their communities more?

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Arts Museum Artist Tucson 45

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. We developed and prototyped everything in-house with staff and interns.

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Participatory Museum Blackboard Game 51

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Mobile Voices offers an open-source multi-media platform optimized for low-cost mobile phones that lets users create, share, and reflect on stories about their lives and communities. and the top 15 Featured Projects were selected through a Community Vote. There were many excellent ideas (check out the Project Gallery !)

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

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. I wish I could see you all because so much of what we do in this work is building community. How do we do this well?

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Community Video Slides Survey 76

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Recently, I've been doing a lot of workshops with cultural professionals around the question of developing authentic relationships between institutions and visitors. If I go on a date with you and we have fun, I develop some expectations about what will happen the next time I see you.

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Relationship Museum Game Personal 46

Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

A company in which program recipients are involved with governance suggests a community board model. This relationship bit helped me think about how different kinds of folks will be involved with a highly participatory, community-co-created project in the long-term. readers, who I see as potential co-conspirators).

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Structure Model Social Profit 31

sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Facilitators have many superpowers, and like superheroes, many of those powers may be invisible to others.

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Participatory Facilitation Philanthropy Skills 82

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I''m thrilled that our small community museum is on the map with many big institutions around the country. Community is not a commodity. We don''t involve people in content development to "boost ticket sales." It''s neither "quick" nor "inexpensive" to mount exhibitions that include diverse community stories. Not a crowd.

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Journal Participatory Museum Community 54

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

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. The LGBT community is growing in visibility and formal acceptance. Communications / #casemrp / @CASEAdvance. Communications. Feb 22 - 24.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

Last week, I wrote about MuseumCamp , the annual professional development event we hold in Santa Cruz. MuseumCamp was inspired by other action-oriented professional development experiences, ranging from open-ended unconferences to tightly-formatted tinkering workshops. Tag Team the Facilitation. professional development'

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Facilitation Professional Learning Participatory 36