Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. However, I don’t always have that opportunity because many times nonprofit workshops are hosted at conferences at hotels. What to do? Have you ever had to do a room hack?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

As always, the conference was a party mix of inspiring and dull, familiar and new. A couple of weeks ago, I posted on this blog that I was interested in meeting some new people at the conference. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday. AirBnB might make it viable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. I also invite guests to come into my class via Zoom video conference. In addition, I write a reflection on my lesson on what I felt worked best or how to modify for the next time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

To get beyond it, I think we need – each of us individually and in our networks and professional work – to experience and reflect and get better at the ways living in the digital age is the same as, and different from, the analog age.” ” [If you are in NYC on September 24th, PDF is hosting an author talk ].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. 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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Reflection from #NTC2014 on Instructional Design. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. Why Movement Is the Killer App for Training. Design Labs.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. 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. Where are the friendly, open, participatory experiences you came for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Reflective Practice. Participatory Gatherings. These skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a meeting, workshop, or conference. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Strategic Dialogue.

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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. I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

But let me reflect on how amazing yesterday was. Back in September, 2012, I was at a conference at Stanford University when I first heard Rob Reich at Stanford University’s Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society , mention the idea of a global day of giving. We can’t treat donors like ATM machines, only asking for money.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 31, 2013

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. Reflective time is important, especially when your work is hectic. It is this community--you--that I want to reflect a bit more on.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Facilitator bits. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most.

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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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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Thousands of nonprofit pros rely on our annual Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar to discover skill-building, strategy-slaying, network-enhancing nonprofit events. We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences, both large and small, broad and specialized, here in the U.S. WHAT IF Conference. Name (a-z).

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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

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. The implementation team was in the conference room in San Francisco for the first time, plus we had in-country leaders on Skype and phone. What opportunities for reciprocity?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

In partnership with NTEN, we brought together 50 volunteers to attend the 17NTC conference for dedicated workshops that will prepare them to be nonprofit technology champions. Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Tuesday, April 4, 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The goals need to be front and center through the entire process, particularly when the measurement approach is more new or participatory and is designed to evolve over time.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. Conference sessions on reaching young people. The impact was dramatic. Access programs aimed at low-income people.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. This is also a reflection of the organization's diverse staff members, who can bridge lots of disciplines and groups.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 6, 2009

This post shares her reflections on the project, its design, and its impact. set up any participatory elements and organize the opening, which occurred the following Friday or Saturday. To help fill in the blanks, I often added participatory pieces which allowed the visitors to take an active role. I was shocked.and very happy.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences. They kept the interface simple.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Anna had been the founding Curator of Education at the National Building Museum, led the Rolling Rainforest project, and was a real innovator in developing in-depth participatory design experiences with community members (though I wouldn't have used those words at the time). The blog started with a conference experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

These posts have sparked some thoughtful reflections, from a folks on the Second Life Educator's List and I'm going to quote and summarize a few: The Second Life Doubter's Club. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. There are better and more efficient channels for collaboration, conference calls for one.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

The end of a conference is often a time of great enthusiasm quickly followed by a gaping maw of inability to act on that enthusiasm back at work. What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

As Doug McLennan wrote in Arts Journal , Kim’s message was condescending, impersonal, did not respond to the specific issue at hand, and did not reflect an honest interest in engagement. Dave runs a yearly software conference called Flashbelt in Minneapolis. His statement was honest and explicit.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

At this year's AAM conference, Sherry struggled to provide us with a good metric for determining which objects are evocative enough to have emotional and intellectual resonance. The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question. The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Finally, Rebecca Krause Hardie has some notes from a blogging workshop given at the Museums and the Web Conference earlier this month. Read more of Jim Spadaccini's reflections.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

and five of those were from people who had attended business conferences/parties there). But the thousands of people who view the resultant reviews and videos will form an impression of your institution based on them--so as much as possible, make sure that impression reflects messages you'd like to share about your institution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

The themes science, environmental, nutrition, economic development, children, youth, parenting, and leadership are very much appropriate as this conference agenda from the NACDEP and ACE/NETC shows. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Professional development - reflect and learn about your work.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

While today is the official launch, Ghosts of a Chance had its "trailhead" (ARG-speak for a first entry point or teaser) at July's ARGFest in Boston, when a heavily-hennaed clue (see image ) crashed the conference and gave a whole new meaning to the term "marketing exposure" as applied to the Smithsonian. are frigging cool indeed.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

By understanding what individuals are highlighting about the Exploratorium experience, the museum can craft its own messaging--and programming--to reflect and enhance the elements seen as most valuable. Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing participatory museum. Or a specific question or idea about how to do it well?

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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.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I don't know if that was their original plan or a reaction to our poor use of the wiki, but it certainly didn't reflect our supposed digital chops. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. a conference). After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record.

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