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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

It is what it sounds like: a book of original sheet music, beautifully designed and complemented with artwork and text. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Sheet music is a beautiful analogy for this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) I learned a lot.

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Guest Post by Kira Marchenese: What Happened When We Introduced 350 Staff to Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. The pitches included costumes, music, video filmed on-site, mock-ups, and social media demos. We could have refined the structure of the two days. And then the fun really started!

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The 2018 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

Join other data experts, academics, practitioners, and social sector leaders for two days of skillfully-led sessions on topics ranging from aligning practice with policy to creating a culture of data, and how Silicon Valley is facilitating data practices in civil society. General / #SXSW / @sxsw. Structuring Major Gifts Conference.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. We'd talk about the work itself.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

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. General / #SXSW / @sxsw. Accounting / @nysscpa. Accounting. Jan 20 - 22. Fundraising / #casesmg / @CASEAdvance. Fundraising.

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Facilitation: The Secret Ingredient for Successful Participatory Decision-Making in Philanthropy

sgEngage

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. Facilitation: The Secret Sauce of Participatory Processes Especially when it comes to participatory decision-making, we believe that a skilled facilitator is essential. These facilitators identify bias and skillfully call the group’s attention to it.