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. Training & Facilitation: I have been facilitating online meetings for many years and when the pandemic hit, I was very busy teaching these techniques to nonprofits around the world.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

The reality that vulnerable communities who are often most impacted by the effects of climate change are also the communities least responsible for causing it makes the unfairness of this lack of support particularly glaring. . A separate Facilitator’s toolkit is available to support this activity at your foundation. .

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Guidelines Participatory Case Study Philanthropy 105

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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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. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

The events can also effectively raise funds through ticket sales, sponsorships, and donations for organizations that provide services and advocacy to advance AAPIs. Effective outreach strategies should focus on connecting with local AAPI groups, leaders, and community centers. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Although this was before Twitter, the advice about what makes an effective tagging community still resonates and are applicable to effective Twitter hashtags. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. This takes some facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Workshop: Using Community Organizing for Effective Online Campaigns. This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist? This session will include a presentation, discussion and small group scenarios.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Facilitator bits. You did great.

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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. Plus it is always a pleasure for me to observe “Gunner’s&# facilitation techniques (I learn so much).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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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 ). ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

The network on Twitter responded: If you’re overly emotional and reject quantitative data or unemotional and reject lived experience, you are less effective from Seth Godin shared by WSUCCSR. It’s fitness for purpose and don’t forget a lot of quantitative data is rubbish from Dunc-Rintoul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. They communicate more effectively, stimulate new ideas, and apply what they hear to improve their team’s productivity and results. Flickr Photo by qwrrty. 3: Don’t judge the other person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. An effective digital team. I facilitated a session in the afternoon which was designed for peer interaction given the topic. .” Being Data Informed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. The driver provides live facilitation. I've written before about the power of live facilitators. The bus stops where you want.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. You can mount challenges that are effective in spreading the word and making our message accessible to more people who can make their own decisions. Low barrier to entry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

I met Mazarine Treyz 3 years ago in Portland, Oregon when I facilitated a one-day social media and nonprofit workshop for the Meyer Memorial Trust. The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. The book is available on Amazon. You can pick up a copy here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

The network on Twitter responded: If you're overly emotional and reject quantitative data or unemotional and reject lived experience, you are less effective – from Seth Godin shared by WSUCCSR. It's fitness for purpose and don't forget a lot of quantitative data is rubbish – from Dunc-Rintoul.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. These principles are shown to be highly effective in development projects around the world. Want to learn more? spanhidden.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. This post discusses participatory gifting in three parts: the why, the what, and finally, the how. What are its forms, and which are most effective? Ideas participatory museum. I give my friend a cookie.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Facilitators have many superpowers, and like superheroes, many of those powers may be invisible to others.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. well, you know.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

This relationship bit helped me think about how different kinds of folks will be involved with a highly participatory, community-co-created project in the long-term. The foundation with the PRI effectively jumpstarts the viability of the L3C by taking on the most risk and lowest amount of return.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

It is my suspicion that a one-day workshop spread over two days will always be more effective than putting it all on the same day, even with the same number of hours of content sharing. I first learned about this technique from Sam Kaner''s excellent book, Facilitator''s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

This creates a dependency where visitors only experience the communal relationship if it is facilitated by staff. The idea of sending winners a reward is nothing new, but in this case, the reward shares the same sensibility as the game, thus more effectively deepening the relationship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In a deliberate, organic, and aggressively inclusive manner, advised Sue Gardner, Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation, and consultant Eugene Eric Kim, at Grantmakers for Effective Organizations’ “Growing Social Impact in a Networked World” conference yesterday. ” Paul Connolly.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The NTC brings together the best and brightest nonprofit professionals from around the world to collaborate, innovate, and maximize effectiveness with technology. Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants. Technology / #16NTC / @NTENorg.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I call it the snowball effect. ” So that snowball effect is really amazing. It’s beautiful, wonderful when everyone comes together, but then you have so many personalities and ideas, agendas can get messy really quick. Could you use it?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

I've spent the last two weeks working on the third chapter of my book about network effects of social participation. And with these goals in mind, there are low-tech ways to perform or simulate every component of a socially networked platform, many of which are more effective than their high-tech counterparts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. But interesting effect: the tags of millions of users are available. Del.icio.us is a popular social bookmarking manager which allows you to bookmark a web page and add tags to organize and retrieve your bookmarks. How can I go back and find this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Here’s some basic points she made about working effectively in a networked way compared to working in a traditional organization. A Networked organization is more than just the electronic infrastructure and tools that facilitate communication. 2) Networks are participatory. Source: Leadership for a New Era.

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