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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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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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. Bringing these different communities together in the same space might not have created safe space for the true issues of each group to emerge.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. MyHerefordshire.com: communities of efficiency.

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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. Happening Couch.

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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. The E-Mediat Implementation Partners at SF Planning Meeting.

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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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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined. What constraints and surprises will emerge?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. How does the repeat experience in a museum become progressively (and positively) communal? The driver provides live facilitation.

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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. See, the mark of a great social media effort is when the community itself owns it.

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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. Note: you can view these photos of the exhibition on Flickr here.)

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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. Communities of practice theory.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

You’re teaching grant writing and doing board development and super involved in the nonprofit community there. My firm guides leaders and organizations in strategic plans and governance processes that deepens social change, racial justice, stakeholder engagement and community strength. So I’m going to pipe down. Who are we?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing. Online input was supplemented with face-to-face local meetings around the world. They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Tina isn’t even a plant, despite being a local member. A place of community, conversation and connection — Scott Stulen (@middlewest) September 21, 2019 Many museum-workers talked about the community museums foster. He defined museums as “a lifeline between its community and the wider cultural landscape.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Technorati rapidly index tens of thousands of updates every hour, and monitors live communities and the conversations they foster. You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area. Growing and Eating Local Foods. Eating Fabulous Step 2: Thinking Outloud.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

a local currency issuer. Then as now, the idea behind BerkShares was to galvanize residents in Pittsfield, Great Barrington, and surrounding areas to purchase more goods and services locally. The local currency could be converted into US dollars but is designed to be spent directly in the area. The experiment proved successful.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

David Wilcox and I are getting ready for iterations on Social by Social - the first two being applications of the lessons learned and strategies for using social media shared in Social by Social ( read online or download the PDF for free, or buy your hardcopy ) in local communities and the same for local government.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. The meeting and the workshop I facilitated took place in iHub, an open innovation space. Jessica Colaco places books in the iHub Community Library. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

This post was written by my colleague Nora Grant, Community Programs Coordinator at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. We choose themes and venues in collaboration with a community partner. This bridges institutional and community-created content. What does this look like?

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