Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

" Digital Democracy (Dd) was a prize winner in that challenge. " Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. Six years later, it looks like Dd hasn't strayed far from its roots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Year in Review During the first two months of 2020, I taught workshops and facilitated digital transformation innovation labs in London and Warsaw. I shifted a lot of my content and advice to focus on creating a life-work balance when you work remotely and how to create a more connected virtual team as well as digital wellness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Some notes from the white paper, I'm still digesting it (not being a digital native, I had to print it out). vlogging, and podcasting).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

So, it was really a great honor to co-teach a master class on digital strategy and two crowdfunding workshops. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. As a trainer, one way to learn is to observe and take process notes.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. Are you making that shift in your thinking about participatory project design?

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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. Once everyone had to rely on digital products and services in entirely new ways, a collective realization spread that if we rely on technology and that technology fails, we can’t do our jobs.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

.” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

The booth was a nice way to celebrate what participants had done--and to create a digital record that they can keep and share. Some people showed off their handmade paper or books. Others stood in the booth with a new friend. It created an appealing body of stories about the event.

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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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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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Forum One

APRIL 21, 2022

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. In a digital space, it takes a team to bring design ideas to life. Yet understanding design wants and needs doesn’t end with the organization that hires us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2006

I would love to hear Howard Gardner talk about digital learning. MacArthur Foundation will make a major announcement that will generate a greater understanding of the impact technology and digital media has on today's youth. "Digital Learning" Press Briefing and Panel Discussion. The John D. and Catherine T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Documentation of the Visioning Process. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

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. Digital Transformation: Digital transformation is about how nonprofits organizations and the way they work is transformed by technology. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2018!

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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. In an increasingly digital world, crowdfunding is here to stay. Jump into Crowdfunding Now!

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Game Fundraising Campaign Generation 59

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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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

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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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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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is managed by the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in partnership with the DMU Centre for Social Action and Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre. The project is commissioned and supported by NESTA , an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative.

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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. Ze's work has always gone beyond the digital. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined.

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Museum Participatory Artist History 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Digital Activism was one of several books I gave to my friends at iHub in Nairobi. Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change , Mary Joyce, Editor. Digital activism is defined by the Meta-Activism Project as “the practice of using digital technology for political and social change.&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I just received my copy of Henry Jenkin's Convergence Culture which has been on my list ever since I heard him speak at the launch of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning and Media Initiative. I'm hoping to get a chance to finish during some much needed down time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. The Digital Operations Center is one response to this scaling challenge. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” .” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Like many organizations, I heard some of the same challenges to incorporating walking meetings: We often review digital information at our meetings so it is hard to walk. Design must comes first. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Los Angeles, California: Digital Inclusion. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Digital Dumpster Fire: Tips to Handle Social and Online PR Problems ( Communications Networking Lunch). Bamenda, Cameroon: How to Create Digital Stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies.

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Network Build Morocco Yemen 95

Care2

MARCH 6, 2011

However, a new study by the Digital Media and Learning Research Hub says that being online helps Millennials gain diverse perspectives and increases their civic engagement. They can be excited about one issue, and then quickly move on. “Both of these outcomes are good for democracy.&#.

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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!

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Storytelling Collaboration Video Thailand 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104

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

Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

The staff was fired, the digital projects divvied out to other institutions, the plans for the physical museum shelved. The early participatory projects are terrific. What are we to make of the difference between what INNL planned for the physical site and what it created in the digital and distributed world?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

The USHMM pledge wall is notable for its blending of digital and analog technologies. Rather than requiring visitors to key in their pledges via a keyboard, visitors scrawl their promises on special digital paper with pens. Why require visitors to hand-write their pledges rather than keying them in on a keyboard?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 13, 2013

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. so I was intrigued when I heard about a recent success from Jeffrey Inscho, Web and Digital Media Manager at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Graphically, both on-site and online, the project is very inviting.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. At Media Cause, we serve clients with a wide range of budgets, internal team sizes, and digital capabilities. As we look to make an impact, how can we invite community members to create with us from the start?

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Design Experiment Nonprofit Collaboration 52

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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