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 session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. That is not design thinking.

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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

APRIL 2, 2014

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. They are designed to do different things. That''s expected.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation. In the first case, you are making the design process participatory.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Building knowledge is a social process where we make meaning together. Data is part of the tracking and monitoring innate to grantmaking and can be part of intentional organizational learning processes. However, datamaking has added power because it can beused to deepen strategic social processes of foundation-funded change.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. He creates a visual representation of his story.

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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.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It can be uncomfortable to admit, but many web designers, myself included, first learned about digital accessibility as a regulation. Can a screen reader process this content? It’s not a way to design—it’s simply design. Because the process was more inclusive, the website we developed better-addressed audience needs.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. We focused more on design. A million thanks to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. 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? Why Use One?

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

A narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale. It’s participatory. My clients and students who have found the most success in their storytelling efforts are those who understand that storytelling is really about a process.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point.

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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. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. HUMANS ARE THE BEST AGENTS OF PARTICIPATION When I wrote the book, I was coming from the perspective of an exhibit designer. Those people are driven not by the design precept of participation. Humans empower each other. Invite each other in.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. These two lessons are probably true of any major institutional change process (swapping the word "participation" with the focus of the change). Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway? didn't mince words.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Then one of the last arriving students, typing their name into the designated row, somehow deleted the whole roll sheet. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. I was about to talk through the syllabus and course objectives.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2022

1 ] This year, we asked funders about their giving in FYE (fiscal year end) 2020 and 2021, including funding designated for COVID-19 [ 2 ] and what trends they are paying attention to this year. We are paying attention to issues of equity and social justice; participatory grantmaking; and streamlining applications and reporting.” . “We

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. This brilliant design allowed patrons to create new knowledge about the books in the library while only slightly adjusting their book-returning behavior.

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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. I’ve used these techniques myself and been in many other sessions where facilitators used design-thinking techniques. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Now, after long last, the book is here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

I also facilitated numerous design workshops and resilience staff retreats virtually. And, with this post, you will notice a new design for my blog which was long overdue. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The project is under the visionary leadership of Cheryl Francisconi who is the director of IIE’s office in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and has vast expertise in developing, designing, and implementing transformative leadership programs for several decades. Documentation of the Visioning Process. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. Over the past few weeks, I’ve been working with my fellow track facilitators to design the process that we will lead the participants in our track through.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

I had designed the leadership workshop on resilience to include a lot of solo and peer reflection time and small group work and some small amounts of presentation and context to do the exercises. I had requested 6 person rounds because part of the exercises included some fun brainstorming processes and exercises. What to do?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

They see this as directly related to the founding principles of the Mill as a place of experimentation, design, creating, and making. They invite people to participate: in design , prototyping , artifact interpretation , collections preparation , audience development. It''s a shared space and process. it''s carried on.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Building Meaningful Engagement: Crowdfunding can assist nonprofits in not just raising funds but also in constructing significant participatory relationships with donors, potentially expanding their current supporter base. Recognizing which strategies work best helps your nonprofit replicate successful campaigns in the future.

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Game Fundraising Campaign Generation 59

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. Designing training that is interactive, that goes beyond presenting takes upfront planning. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises.

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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. Strategic Dialogue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

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. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Their space is designed for local nonprofits to connect, share ideas and develop solutions together. They have built an authentic community through cultivated conversations and events designed to build trust, deepen relationships and set the stage for collective impact. Of course, this would be optional for everyone.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process."

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. Then we started working with our local design and technology firms— Ziba Design and Fashionbuddha —and in the prototyping, it became clear we had to go another way.

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Museum Story Project Design 43

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. What makes for a good team experience is a good on-boarding process. Next, of course, is diving into the design task of identifying goals and framing for the session and specific roles.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). You can download and read the full version of my thesis here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

When we focused our attention on supporting organizations and networks we built an approach that emphasized their ownership and leadership of the process. Few were accompanied by a strong statement about commitment to process that prioritizes ownership and empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

It is critical you know the why before you start designing, doing, and paying for the what. Are you creating your measurement approach/designing your evaluation, or did someone prescribe the approach you now need to implement? One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start.

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