Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations.

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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. Reflective Practice.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Five years later, project director Dr. Piotr Bienkowski's final report for Our Museum tells a different story. Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway? didn't mince words. Critical friends can make you smile.

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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. NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. Early bird registration ends on July 31 and scholarship information is here.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Like many diversity efforts, including women’s voices in grantmaking decisions—particularly women from historically marginalized groups—doesn’t often happen organically. Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. It’s not about whether we trusted them,” Dr. Couvson said. “It

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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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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. Gunner also facilitated a brainstorming and affinity mapping exercise to unpack all the possible topics for deep dives in small groups in the afternoon. These techniques are based on human-centered design principles.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. This year, we took a different approach. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. You can explore the projects in full on the class wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection to one another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. After finishing the share pairs, we did a quick full group “popcorn” of the ideas that bubbled up. This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

At Forum One, we have created a cross-disciplinary internal working group on accessibility. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process. We understand now that everyone has a role to play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Attendees brought up questions about how they can get more involved with financial discussions in their institutions, how we can change the ways we approach fundraising, how we can think about earned income differently. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences. What's also different is that more and more people are viewing the back channel as integrated with the conference networking and participant learning. One of the reflections. Warning she says the F-word on the clip.)

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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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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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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009). and Nonprofit Leadership and Management, MNLM.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

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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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

In reflecting on the sample, I’ve made some broad reflections on museum workers and visitors. Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. They understand we are different, but they don’t see us in competition with each other. People go to museums for leisure.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

So expect some live blogging, and reflections. Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. This workshop was an experiment in the interactive lecture and lots of small groups. I was invited to participate in the first inaugural !deation My slides are here.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

MuseumNext had four main sections: Interactive activities , including an opening workshop with a group of designers associated with an extremely wonderful exhibition called Doing it for the Kids featuring sustainable toy designs. Click any link above to see the video from the initial pitch and final report from each group.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. Different activities need different levels of materials to appear "open for business." It's just fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Given this, it’s not surprising that every cause marketer or corporate social responsibility professional is scratching their head as they try to reach this important group. No matter what the issue is, if people can see themselves, their families or their neighbors reflected, they are more likely to act for good.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. People answer questions differently in harshly lit interrogation rooms than they do in welcoming therapists' offices or in the privacy of their own computer terminals.

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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 ). Here’s a blog post by Rachel Dearborn describing the process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

But during the session on Learning in Public yesterday, with Beth Kanter, Co-Author of Networked Nonprofit, Jared Raynor from the TCC Group and Kathy Reich, from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I was reminded that all measurement needs to start with the most fundamental question – why measure?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2012

I have felt in the past that some of the MCA's holiday videos were a bit too pretentious, but this year's edition is full of joy and a message that really reflects what they do in Denver. I'm sometimes wary of studies of "innovation," but I like how this one could be used reflectively within an organization to assess openness to change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. This was followed by a presentations and discussion with four thought leaders who shared their insights and knowledge around four different themes: New Power : Henry Timms, 92nd Street Y. Technology : Cheryl Contee, Fission Strategy.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up a few times a year and host excellent programs on a variety of topics. I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). Would my enthusiasm have been different? Not all viruses go viral.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2012

book club for three reasons: The experimental projects of this museum-in-process included some of the most innovative participatory initiatives I've ever seen, especially in a discipline--history--that is often staid. I'll be looking for guest posters who represent different types of institutions, countries, and approaches to the material.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

It has some of the same feel as the disconnected affection of people wishing you a happy birthday on Facebook, with professional reflection baked in. Seeing so many cheerful one-liners in my inbox made me think about how different my work situation is today than the last time I reflected on it in public in 2012, at my one-year anniversary.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). In 2008, when this group was assembled, they had political backing, financial support, and an energetic approach to their work. The early participatory projects are terrific. The media strategy is impressive.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. For one year, a group of twelve schoolchildren age 9-11 were invited to work with staff at the Wallace Collection to develop a family-focused exhibition using the museum's artifacts. it's a Secret! , Here are the basics.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2012

These include community arts groups, social service agencies, environmental groups, social clubs, and many inspiring individuals whom we can't thank enough. We've been toying with a participatory future-casting program and or a storytelling series to start moving in this direction. design new programs with a focus on history.

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