Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. I had requested 6 person rounds because part of the exercises included some fun brainstorming processes and exercises. What was your experience? You can build your resilience by listening to a lecture!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

How do you measure the value of that experience? Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Over three months, about 600 people filled mason jars with personal memories and put them on display. He puts it on the wall. What was it?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. Crossing Cultures features paintings by Belle Yang that relate to her family''s immigration experiences. In my experience, offering many different forms of participation garners more quality interactions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

Every person on the staff and every community member has some insight to offer, but they might not be presented unless the leadership communicates the value of these insights and the need of the organization to hear from everyone. This is where participatory practice comes in to play.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. This list includes board members, employees, volunteers, donors, people who are served by the organization, community members, or any person or group who is impacted by the organization. Expect to be surprised.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship. These interns work with our curatorial team to develop interactive and participatory components for upcoming exhibitions. Exciting, right?

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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. This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 8, 2022

Although there were plans to return NTC to an in-person event following the very first virtual NTC in 2021, the decision was made to return again to the virtual realm to ensure public safety. The Nonprofit Technology Enterprise Network (NTEN) will be holding its annual Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) on March 23-25, 2022.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We’ve been doing a little experiment at our museum with labels. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. Maybe this person was writing about his or her preference for neon paper products, but I doubt it. It said: “you should do something to spruce these up a bit.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Wherever possible, Vi personalized the tour to individuals in the group. Vi was unapologetically personal about her own relationship to the content on display. What made it so special? 5'11", 6'1", etc.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

How do we get personal stories out there? I love this blog from last year that is a quick read on how to get someone to tell their personal story. Participatory fundraising often starts with events that allow people to get involved causally with a small time commitment. If a picture of an angry cat can get 4.5 Make it fun!

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. It's not just a personal activity; it's an opportunity to be part of something.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Every story we tell is a serious of events that happened to a person, place or project. It’s participatory. When we tell a story, we are providing context that allows others to interpret our unique experiences. This allows them to relate to our unique experience and creates empathy between the two people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century."

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Forum One

APRIL 21, 2022

From creating an improved user experience to a new brand impression, we help organizations achieve a look on the outside that represents the modern, innovative work that they do on the “inside.”. Design can feel very personal and often provokes strong opinions—that’s a good thing! Good design is engaging, attractive, and usable.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. In past days of in-person training, I presented a slide deck in front of the class and distributed a paper course reader that students could hold in their hands and take notes on.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

The events are informal, personal, and fun, but our feedback mechanism--onsite and post-event surveys--not so much. Instead, Stacey thought, why not make the feedback experience an activity unto itself? This past Friday, we experimented with a new feedback format at an evening event focused on poetry and book arts.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. We have about 25 now. You have to remind people, keep reaching out.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

We decided to show a selection of Danny's lists in a hallway surrounded by a participatory element where we invite visitors to contribute to new lists on evocative themes ("Things we forget," "The best feelings in the world," etc.) One of the collections on display is a set of "found lists" collected by a local farmer, Danny Lazzarini.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Building Meaningful Engagement: Crowdfunding can assist nonprofits in not just raising funds but also in constructing significant participatory relationships with donors, potentially expanding their current supporter base. It also encourages donations through genuine personal connections. Jump into Crowdfunding Now!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. While they may not be as comfortable as Americans with "me" experiences, they are much more up for "we" activities. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere. For years, I''ve heard some version of this refrain.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? And then you show up in person and feel jilted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

It is an 8 circuit outlet power strip with a personal sensor. Get Seen by Steve Garfield ; Steve is a video blogging pioneer and the person who first introduced me to its power back in 2005. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Needless to say, I learned a lot! Fish Bowl Exericse.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

You can make this an educational experience and spread the tastings out throughout the evening or you can make it a small portion of a larger party, kicking off the tasting around midnight. Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . Virtual Game Night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

That is a typical problem-solving approach, taking on a given problem, working using your own opinions and experience to guide you, and with a solution in mind to be designed. This allowed us to experience the whole design process – design a new wallet – and reflect on it. What was your experience?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In this post, Jasper shares some lessons learned from a recent experiment to design a more social comment station. The National Vending Machine is a travelling exposition that tells the historical and personal story behind everyday objects. I turned out people also used these cards to tell personal stories about other ideas).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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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. As part of their introspection, the Boston Women’s Fund also found that they weren’t hearing as much from younger women, and those who did participate felt that they were drowned out by the experiences of the older women.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. With this in mind, when we produce participatory experiences, while our impetus is to serve our power users with extra content or “check for understanding” interactives, there are so many other ways to use interactives. That’s huge.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. questions that draw from personal experience, not abstraction. Ask yourself.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

So when the folks at the think tank asked us to make a media piece to address one problem we saw with the current setup, I decided to do a little experiment in visitor-driven navigation. I'd had a good experience earlier asking a guard what he recommended--it had taken me into a gallery I otherwise would have missed completely.

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