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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In addition to the countless lunches, coffees, roundtables, focus groups and other opportunities for feedback and discussion I engaged in I also dug into the evidence on the impacts of capacity building on organizations. Our role was to coach, support, mentor where necessary – but never to lead. Who is defining results anyway?

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

As a follow-up to the Women in Philanthropy Institute’s 2023 Symposium, hosted by the Indiana University Lilly Foundation School of Philanthropy, we gathered four dynamic grantmakers to discuss how they are doing the work to amplify female voices, especially women, girls, and femmes of color, in philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Be aware of what they say, how they say it and body language. Observe and Understand Body Language. According to research, 55% of the message you convey comes from your body language. Here’s a terrific cheat sheet for common body language signals and what they mean. Identify other people’s emotional states.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2016

This is where you link challenge to engagement through the use of participatory language that: helps individual supporters imagine themselves as part of the solution to the problem; underscores how they are joining others in a cause worth fighting for. Creating an “Opportunity” Narrative for Supporters.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place, and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts!

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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. We also developed the site so each submitted photo had its own URL and threaded comment stream so discussions could take place around the submitted works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Obvious attention: discussions in blogspace, comments in posts, reclarification, and continued discussion. Nature of the language in comments: positive, negative, interconnective, expanded, clarified, reinterpreted. Raw links to the document. Via RSA Networks blog.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

When I've talked with those same folks in bridged groups, they use more circumspect language (i.e. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Include a mix of individual activities (often writing or drawing), partner/small group work, and whole group discussion.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

We discussed impressionism from Manet to Monet, and delved deeper in pointillism and Greek sculpture. We use language throughout the tour to encourage the interpersonal, e.g. “make eye contact with two new museum friends.” comfort interactives participatory museum programs Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Ready to turn your institution into a site of participatory engagement? Want to bring the spirit of this blog to your colleagues and projects? Have an audacious idea but don't know where to start?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. The motivation behind it is the same: the body language equivalent of saying "you should look at this.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. The tools can be useful for in-country connections, in local languages, or north-south connections. I blogged a discussion on web2.0 " She has worked in Africa as a trainer and later as an organisational advisor.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

Here are three examples of changes you could make: Change the language and presentation of comment cards. It’s hard to correlate online buzz to sales, but Charlene and Josh present a few cases in which positive online discussion led to upticks in sales about a month later. Otherwise, it’s likely to fall on deaf ears.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

There are no rules or explicit ways to "win"--instead, players hunt down clues, discuss the possibilities, and take actions they think may lead to fruitful new experiences and information. A New Kind of ARG Like most ARGs, the Luce Center's Ghosts of a Chance is an interactive narrative that rolls out over several weeks.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

I believe in transparency in all language use--whether the words are familiar or new. In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. There are many different forms of engagement with many different outcomes depending on your goals, your project, or your institution."

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. Along the way, people can receive updates, give feedback, share information beyond the platforms, and integrate offline and online discussions. for membership, board elections, inclusion, and accessibility).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

” Christie George of New Media Ventures and Akash Trivedi of Kiva.org will discuss key Lean Impact approaches. They also learn professional and language skills in order to enable them to find meaningful employment. The soup is sold to women working “behind the windows” in Amsterdam’s red light district.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

It’s been translated into dozens of languages, inspired curriculum for high school, inspired a ballet in Boston, a puppet show in Palestine, floats in parades and the list goes on. 2) Networks are participatory. In the three years since the film has been out there, there are still 10K views a day and 12 million views online.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I’m Steven, I’m over here at Bloomerang, and I’ll be moderating today’s discussion. . So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. And even though this is all standard strategic planning language, for some of you, you’re like, “I got this.

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