Forum One

APRIL 21, 2022

Mission-driven organizations rely on Forum One to bring their ideas to life through designs that inform and inspire action. Using audience research and even participatory design, where we engage end-users in early-stage design, we help organizations break out of their own internal ways of communicating. We are also systems thinkers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I used my holiday break as an opportunity for a brief digital detox and time for family, travel and fun. I also include my list of work/life habits that I want to maintain or modify. Each month I create the task list organized with different color codes for different types of work/life.

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

Qgiv

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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Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. We struggle with how to save digital media.

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History Museum Minnesota Participatory 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2010

Playing tourist in DC, it is interesting to see how much your online digital life impacts your offline life. There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. The Smithsonian is one of the Networked Nonprofits we feature in the book. We spent most of the day at the Smithsonian.

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DC Asia Offline Participatory 91

AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

While preparing and consuming food is a true connector at in-person events, doing so in a digital format can be an excellent way to foster engagement and social interaction, giving people a little bit of joy and togetherness in what has been a complicated time. . Virtual Game Night. Do you know what is fun? Games are fun.

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Virtual Ideas Game Classes 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

I would love to hear Howard Gardner talk about digital learning. because the session will take place in Second Life and will also be webcasted. Second Life: NMC Campus Amphitheater (number 5 on the map) (see picture of me above) (NOTE: Please join "NMC Guests" group for access to Amphitheater). The John D.

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Foundation Digital Learning Literacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The summit will be an opportunity for deeper peer learning for nonprofit change makers in three theme areas: digital strategy , impact leadership , and the future of technology. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

But every once in awhile, something extraordinary comes up, something that isn't emergent or evolving or encouraging but something that explodes into your life like a comet knocking on your door. Ze's work has always gone beyond the digital. I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.

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Museum Participatory Artist History 45

AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

While preparing and consuming food is a true connector at in-person events, doing so in a digital format can be an excellent way to foster engagement and social interaction, giving people a little bit of joy and togetherness in what has been a complicated time. . Virtual Game Night. Do you know what is fun? Games are fun.

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Virtual Ideas Game Classes 52

Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

This special digital storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge in February. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Windy founded D.V.A.

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Storytelling Collaboration Video Thailand 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Games — both digital and analog — provide a great opportunity for inviting players to interact with a real-world causes and societal challenges. government and encouraging participatory democracy. ” Senate Immersion Module. Created by ESI Design, the 100-player Senate Immersion Module game was made for the Edward M.

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Game Tech Support Module 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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, The 4Cs Social Media Framework Applied to Digital Activism. What About You? Do share your thoughts.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

This special Digital Storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TSDigs challenge in February. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Windy founded D.V.A.

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Collaboration Storytelling Video Thailand 44

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

But when you get to the part with the call to action , there are two things you can do: "explore the crisis" by reading more about elephants and humans on the site sign a pledge to avoid ivory products and encourage a moratorium on ivory products These are not exactly life-changing actions. We want our donors to be advocates.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

It has a 800-number on it (877-737-3132) and a three-digit ID number (131). They asked for an experience that could transform how you perceived the Park – whether you were new or had lived in San Diego all your life. Lesson: what myths are working for you in your game or participatory project? But “official” it is not.

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Lesson Game San Diego Design 49

Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Teen Social Museum Participatory 49

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. Documenter: Using a digital camera, the documenter should capture photos of the process – the set up, the activity, and the products from the activity. ” Anne Lamott.

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. Such a model rests on the idea of a participatory culture and an essential ingredient is a permissive licensing strategy – Creative Commons licenses offers us this, a large community with shared values and an ecosystem to tap in to.

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License Participatory Culture India 93

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I could imagine expanding this to something digital that would be easier to use but no more compelling. The pictures I took are full of life and reflect the diversity both of the museum collection and the audience. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. Want to take it to the next level? What would you do?

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Experiment Lesson Learning Museum 44

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Now, onto the links: If you have a great idea for a participatory learning project that uses digital tools, the MacArthur Foundation wants to give you money. They are accepting submissions for this Digital Media and Learning Competition through October 15. Please help make this a great resource for everyone.

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Fund Teen Museum Game 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

But even as the phenomenon continues to swell, the effort to maintain an active social life on the Web is taking its toll. She's not the only one out there, the Digital Youth Research group is looking at kids informal learning with digital media and of course, Danah Boyd ). Some have grown tired of what once was novel.

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Social Media Media Social Social Network 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC. We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more.

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Wiki NTC Screencast Flickr 50

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Discover how-to details and strategies for fast, measurable digital marketing success. and discover how to reach your audiences more directly through social and digital media, while still landing placements through the national press or your local newspapers and broadcast stations. Digital Strategy Innovation Summit.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. I’m particularly enamored of this simple diagnostic used at the Museum of Life and Science in North Carolina to articulate the types of institutional goals they are trying to achieve with forays into participation.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

It also has some interesting lessons about collaboration in design; there's a lot of acknowledgment and discussion about the positives and negatives of bringing new technologies (digital audio manipulation) into a classic venue (radio). It's This American Life meets Science Friday with a whole slew of strange audio tweaks thrown in.

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Audio Storytelling Tutorial Participatory 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

Ever since, our paths have crossed several times in nonprofit technology circles online, most recently via the Digital Divide Network listserv and the online forums at TechSoup. whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork.

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Arts Community Online Intergenerational 50

Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

There is no reason in the life cycle of movie rental that a user should be expected to rate a movie. Type in How Children Fail by John Holt, and you'll find its antithesis: Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. Tags: personalization participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. This is an undoubtably silly exercise.

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System Design Movie Museum 22

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Digital Media and Learning Conference. Digital Media and Learning Conference. Digital Media and Learning Hub / Irvine, CA / $175. Web of Change events are where progressive organizers and digital strategists come to up their game. General / #WHATIFConference / @ImpactFoundary. Marketing & Communications. 11/18/2016.

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. If life is a chessboard, content is still king. I was always thinking, how could a freelancer pitch the world?

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Interview Fund Report Community 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. Use and application of digital tools is a tactical concern– important, but not the endpoint.

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Offline Social Media Network Org 116

Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

Contrasting that rich human narrative with the kind of gleamy tweaky technology narrative that was emerging from the NISE-NET meeting made me realize that generally speaking, science museums ignore many of the aspects of life that are the most resonant--mortality, sex, humor, tragedy, pity, joy. It hasn''t.

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Help Museum eBook Project 45

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Museums will always need to retain some powers to manage the preservation of objects, to wield IP controls properly, and to manage the digital reproduction and dissemination of content. With no further ado, enjoy this post.

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Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44