Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 7, 2014
Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. It was followed by this: 4.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 8, 2014
The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Who is the lead singer, guitarist, bass, and drums. Here’s how that translates to team facilitation: Facilitator Lead: The person who is facilitating the discussion or exercise.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
NOVEMBER 3, 2015
We had an incredible team of women tech advisers from Silicon Valley, all experts, and who taught classes on how to use various tools such as Google, Canva, and Indiegogo, complete with detailed work books with exercises. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.
Museum 2.0
APRIL 7, 2009
Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.
Museum 2.0
MAY 3, 2010
Last week, I attended Structure Lab , a half-day workshop on legal and financial structures for ventures for social good. The Structure Lab is set up as a "game" in which you explore cards in various categories (values, assets, financing, etc.) to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 19, 2015
Having 300 people and doing a participatory style of teaching gave me an opportunity to use some of my facilitation techniques for large groups that are in my tool set – and because colleagues have asked me to share tips about it, expect that in another blog post next week.). Format Templates and Cheat Sheets.
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." Audience development is not an exercise in concentric circles. We want to cultivate a more diverse audience, especially younger people, and we want to do it authentically."
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