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. Photo by Glenn Hirsch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. Despite its long history, few researchers studied the use and impact of citizen science until the 1980s.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Only measure impact, not process. 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. First, with discipline and structure. Make data-driven decisions only, don't trust your gut ever.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

This could be a serious research opportunity for someone interested in impact assessment, community attitudes towards the arts, and the role museums can play in transforming communities. Our internships have generally gotten more structured. Special Projects interns, who will do, well, whatever you want.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

The session included an update of Celgene’s work in patient advocacy and an announcement of their Innovation Impact Awards Program , focused on incorporating the patient voice into pharmaceutical and biotech research and development. Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.”

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

But, not just skills training, but learning to understand the impact of connected society and transformation. I believe that social networking can do better by thinking about network structures, understanding roles of people, making organizations more sociable and blending social media.

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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." If new programs are sufficiently different from the traditional ones, they may be more effective as standalone program tracks than as gateways to the traditional experience.

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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.”. What investments can the Brainerd Foundation make over the next five years to help build an effective infrastructure of advocacy that builds power for conservation that will endure beyond the foundation’s sunset? Concept 4: 21st Century Enquirer.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. We have prioritized opening up to as many partners as possible through collaborative structures that scale. MISTAKES I MADE: Taking criticism too personally and letting it impact my emotional health too much. Making co-creation sustainable and powerful. Naming fears, too.

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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." That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most. Facilitator bits.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

SXSW Web Awards : Last year was the first year SXSW introduced the Advocacy award and this year there are some amazing nominees up to be recognized for their creative and effective use of interactive for social good. We'll also talk about how you can get sizeable online grants and free/discounted help from key professionals.”

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Each design choice impacts the amount of thought and efforts visitors will put into their responses and the extent to which they will stay on-topic or proactively build on other visitors' arguments. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Impact Foundary / McClellan Park, CA / $200. In one, very full day, some of our world’s most effective philanthropists, organizational experts, and passionate advocates will share useful insights. Impact Convergence 2016. Impact Convergence 2016. WHAT IF Conference. WHAT IF Conference. Marketing & Communications.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. 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.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. 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?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

As fellow changemakers, we should be intensely focused on how we catalyze the transformative impact of the individual. So how do we catalyze the impact of an individual? It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” It begins with understanding today’s change agents. Radical Collaboration.

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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. A stakeholder is also very important because these are the people who are directly impacted by the work that we do. How do we do this well? Could you use it?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

Last week, I focused on the 2014 theme (social impact assessment) and the many creative evaluation projects produced by campers. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Economic Impacts. But interesting effect: the tags of millions of users are available. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. In most cases simple syntax structure is used.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The theory of change involves both encouraging local economic activity—increasing the economic multiplier effect, in technical parlance—while fostering bonds of community. a democratically structured non-profit which issues the local currency; the Schumacher Center (which retains its affiliation with BerkShares, Inc.);

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Indeed, crowdfunding puts on steroids the human tendency to favor the immediate, visceral, and emotional rather than the strategic, impactful, or long-term. The article explains how these values impact and drive governance, trust, transparency, and affiliation in the social sector.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

If there was a way to engage these deep emotions in the context of science museums, then there is an opportunity to expand our impact. It is a bit too sexual for most high schools, though one high school philosophy teacher reported using it to great effect. How did you make decisions about how to structure the story?

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