Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. But people have participated in completely different ways. Here are three possible explanations for this gender divide: Men and women use bathrooms differently. But not so much in the men's bathroom.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum invites community members to participate in the development and creation of an exhibit. But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation."

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MARCH 8, 2022

Attendees are welcomed and encouraged to bring their whole self to the NTC, and NTEN promises to weave a sense of community into session and activity throughout the three-day event. Many nonprofit organizations know they are making a difference in their unique communities, but do they also know how to showcase that impact?

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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

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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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

Yesterday, I learned about the Silk Mill, a British historic site that is going through a dramatic community-driven reinvention. The Derby Silk Mill folks have a different tack: they define the Silk Mill as being about making. And perhaps most ambitiously, they see it as a community-based project. What do you do?

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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. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory. We had some money.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. You can download and read the full version of my thesis here.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. This project wove together many different participatory threads. We co-created it from start to finish with community partners. What did we learn?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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MARCH 27, 2023

That’s where participatory grantmaking comes in. By giving your community an active role in your grantmaking process, you get a better understanding of their needs, build stronger relationships, and have a more direct impact. What is Participatory Grantmaking? And several ways not to do it.

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JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century."

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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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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Monique Couvson, President and CEO for Grantmakers for Girls of Color , Natanja Craig-Oquendo, Executive Director of the Boston Women’s Fund , and Marsha Morgan, Board Advisory Member of the Community Investment Network and Black Women Give Back honoree. It requires us to cede power and say, ‘You know this community.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. Participatory processes engage diverse stakeholders in collective thought, action, and decision-making, while increasing the capacity of individuals and communities through skill building and empowerment. Directly involve stakeholders in developing PM.

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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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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. In different meetings, we’ve created breakout rooms so people with stronger technology skills can support others who feel less comfortable by screensharing and/or being the ones to take notes.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. The team included the director, board chair, administrative marketing and communication staff and a community engagement consultant. I asked each person to fill in cells in a matrix.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

While nonprofits may aim to achieve an equitable mission for the community, nonprofits also draw in donors, board members, and employees. Nonprofit leaders must model diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, like recruiting their next board members from different, diverse networks. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

If your organization is focused on building community among your activists and donors you’ve probably had to choose an online group tool. Here’s a list of the different types of popular platforms that offer group functionality that your nonprofit should consider if you’re thinking of going down this route.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend. As a trainer, one way to learn is to observe and take process notes. I’ll share that in my next post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

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. Rick wanted a better way to describe what kinds of projects led to different community outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Community Organizing.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Do you dream of a summer filled with learning, community engagement, and sea lions? There are five different types available , and you are welcome to apply for more than one. We''re offering internships this summer in: Participatory Exhibition Design. Community Engagement. Community Programs. Community Programs.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

I first sensed the difference at the front door. 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. There wasn't one.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. Because of the blog and the speaking I do, I felt I had the ability on my own to get the word out within the museum community about the book. Why Self-Publish?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Quality Shakespearian theater is different from quality contemporary dance. Here, in no particular order, are ten different kinds of quality in arts experiences: AESTHETIC: is it beautiful? PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? High participatory quality, low technical quality. It can unlock several.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Note: the title of this post pays homage to Elaine Heumann Gurian''s excellent and quite different 1981 essay of the same title. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions.

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

Unfortunately, the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t going to completely disappear with the ball drop—meaning New Year’s Eve celebrations will have to look a little different this year. Virtual events have become the norm for so many of us this year so why should it be any different during the holiday season? Virtual Game Night. Games are fun.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Imagine the most community-based science center possible. Imagine it in a poor, immigrant farmworker community. In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. Can you give me the overview of Community Science Workshops? It thrives.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

Of course, everyone’s experiences and takeaways are going to be different, depending on context, circumstance, style, and perspective. Community is key: working with, not for. The article highlighted the importance of getting to know the client’s impacted community before creating the brand identity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

I’ve always dreamed of accessing a diverse network of people who do nonprofit capacity across different disciplines or what Nancy White has described as “ learning from adjacent practices.”

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