Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. Annie Leonard , the director of The Story of Stuff Project , shared a rich story about they have built a global network of activists around the film.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. Structure some of the measures of success so it can give you the space to explore in partnership with different groups, build trust with different groups, and to distribute knowledge and resources throughout.

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Voice Strategy Mississippi Boston 68

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I sat down with Kristen Denner, Director of Membership and Annual Fund, to learn more about the program's development and the museum's goals for its future. First, we realized that our museum is different from other museums, but our benefits and membership structure were the same as others. How did this project start?

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

This blog was co-written by Associate Director, Ida Perrson, and SVP of Brand + Strategy, Amy Small. The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. What would the structure be like? But the technical aspects were only one part of the challenge. What about content?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This internship is for the truly self-motivated person out there with a brilliant idea for making museums more participatory, welcoming, community spaces who just lacks an institution at which to try it out. Our internships have generally gotten more structured.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

George Scheer is the director and co-founder of Elsewhere Collective, a fascinating "living museum" in a former thrift store in Greensboro, NC. Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. Restoration is a formal gesture for most museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The panel was moderated by Joel Beetsch, Vice President, Patient Advocacy, Celgene and Cara Thompson , Director of Patient Advocacy was the host for the event. Patient advocates play a critical role in setting research priorities, designing clinical trials and structuring appropriate clinical engagement with industry. This “Dr.

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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. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video. Projects participatory museum storytelling usercontent'

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

While the talk may encompass serious topics, the attitude is light and the conversation is not structured or overly guided. In contrast, cultural institutions often implicitly discourage conversation, particularly loud and boisterous talk, and when conversation is encouraged it is often highly structured around a particular topic or program.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 7, 2010

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Audience Museum Oakland Participatory 40

Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

I had just started at the MAH as the new executive director. As Parker writes in the introduction: "Gatherings crackle and flourish when real thought goes into them, when (often invisible) structure is baked into them, and when a host has the curiosity, willingness, and generosity of spirit to try."

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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.”. I’ve been facilitating design labs for nonprofits and foundations, and continue to be excited about them because it is a way to generate feedback and ideas that can improve a strategy or program in service of the participants being served.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

The VSA has replaced their keynotes with structured group dialogue. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. My first reaction was skepticism.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

In partnership with women’s rights funds, sport for development organizations and feminist sport activists, Women Win launched the ONSIDE Fund — a participatory grantmaking mechanism that rapidly mobilises unrestricted resources for girls and young women-led organisations and groups through a pooled fund. About the Author. Nicole Matuska.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I talked to a museum education director recently about extending the social networking concept into museum spaces and he suggested that museums put a whiteboard in the lobby on which interested visitors could list their cell phone number for live, in-gallery chats about different parts of the museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 2, 2008

But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. I still talk to lots of folks, mostly young staff members, who are struggling to find ways to feature visitors' voices and break down standard authoritarian design structures. There is funding. There is interest.

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Museum Voice Minnesota Participatory 20

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

When I became the director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History four years ago, I took this work with me. We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. There are links embedded to other posts that go deeper into specific topics.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Oct 19 - 20.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 30, 2014

Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily supported by the James Irvine Foundation. Interestingly, they argue instead that structural change--including but not exclusively programmatic change--is what makes the difference in participant makeup.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

I sat down with Eric Siegel, NYSCI’s Director and Chief Content Officer, to learn more about False Conviction. I was struck by how this is partly interactive, but within a structured, linear narrative. How did you make decisions about how to structure the story? The result is False Conviction: Innocence, Guilt, and Science.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Unfortunately, for some directors, “sustainability” means “finding long-term ways to receive funding to do the same things we’ve been doing.” One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning. But that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t think about the future.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

When asked why these artistic directors were pursuing co-creative processes, "to make great art!" Several spoke disparagingly of the idea that co-creation is primarily about empowering participants; as the Artistic Director of Dance United, Tara-Jane Herbert, commented, "if you want to save people, then this is not the company for you."

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