Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Facilitator bits. While Jim and I explained clearly to Wild Idea proposers what they needed to do to submit their project for consideration before MuseumNext, we didn't give them enough support in actually facilitating their group brainstorming at the event. You did great. Always start and end with something creative.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2023

While women’s role in philanthropy has recently gained visibility due to high-profile philanthropists like Melinda French Gates and MacKenzie Scott, we must also recognize that women, particularly women of color, have a long history and diverse expressions of generosity.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 16, 2021

Harold Grinspoon Foundation organizes many programs, including summer camp funding, facilitating end-of-life giving, and distributing over half a million educational books a month across 32 countries through the PJ Library. Most innovation happens when you least expect it,” Jordan reflected. Zero to Three’s Crisis Challenges + Shifts.

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DipJar

JUNE 20, 2023

Member management software not only keeps track of your members, but also member demographics, preferences, and their history with your organization. They can also facilitate easy membership renewal Communication tools. Here are just a few tools to help you run a nonprofit membership program: Member management software. Member portals.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Bryan Stevenson (BS): It’s important that we have a new consciousness about the problems created by our history. Juneteenth is both an occasion for celebration and a moment for reflection. So while it was an extraordinary moment, there is so much about our history that we’ve got to change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

We were part of an email thread with a small group of individuals offered input on community management systems and facilitator recruiting resources. In her spare time, Nancy also moderates online facilitation , another long running Internet discussion list and maintains an excellent wiki , chock full of invaluable resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

Last week was the first week of our workshop as laboratory and Brownyn offered her meta reflections here and Sus Nyrop shared her thoughts here and Nancy White here. The participants will write up some more formal reflections towards the end of this week. Having a facilitator - the summaries helped make the tag stream accessible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

After a welcome by Kathleen Enright, President and CEO of Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, Diana Scearce, Monitor Institute was our facilitator. She also traced the history of nonprofit capacity building field and how the unit of analysis needs to change – from that of organizations to networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2007

TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

Giving histories, gift amounts, and frequencies can reveal a lot about future willingness to give. Once you have information about your supporters’ interests, engagement histories, and past interactions with your organization, you can reach out to them with more personalized messages that speak to their motivations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

The NTEN project is an excellent learning laboratory for reflection and learning about this topic. provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? Some Learnings on Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2009

There is a long history of charity balls, in the early years organized by the "Ladies Auxiliary" and chronicled in the society pages of major newspapers. events morph and change. Last month, I did a reflection interview after the event with her to discover what worked and what didn't. Britt Bravo has some terrific advice. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. Being Intentional About Your To Do List.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Some reflections questions I used to understand the data: What content/links are of interest to the people who are engaging with me? For example, here’s the spreadsheet from the workshop I facilitated that was hosted by Compasspoint. It allows you to search beyond the Twitter history in search which is only a few days.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Once you’ve identified people who have a history of supporting your organization, seem to have the capacity to make major gifts, and have a pattern of making major gifts to other organizations, you’ll be able to start intentionally cultivating relationships with them. Why Implement It? Speak to Their Motivations What Is This Strategy?

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Your database will make it easier to determine who to contact based on their frequency and history of volunteering. Be sure to use their preferred name in your messages and reference their history of involvement to personalize your outreach. Contact these prospective volunteers individually to see if they’d like to get involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and using social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

The whitepaper will include the following history of ESG, components of ESG programming, an overview of measurement and management, perspectives from CSR leaders, resources to learn more and stay up to date with trends , and more. . Read more about the history of Earth Day here. . . Happy reading! . _ .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 97

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Last week, I had the pleasure of facilitating the webinar, A Cooperative Approach to Web Design. Jim took us through archived versions of his organization's website, and pointed out how this website was improved and altered to reflect this organization's shifting goals. Are You Designing Your Website with Everyone in Mind?

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Giving history . That’s because your site is a direct reflection of your brand. Payment facilitators. After you’ve conducted research and feel confident about who is most likely to donate to your cause, you can segment those donors into groups based on their common characteristics. Common segments include: Location .

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

A good CRM will help you track your donors’ giving history, document their engagement with your organization, and help you identify opportunities to build strong donor relationships that will last for years. Donors want information that’s relevant to their history with your nonprofit! Reflect your nonprofit’s unique brand.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. Mercedes and Zach aren't just interrogators; they also shared their own reflections and stories throughout our conversation. What made Mercedes and Zach such great conversationalists?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

June Holley, an expert in networks and facilitating a community of practice of network weavers , defines some of these techniques below. Share Learning: To share learning, you have to intentionally hit the pause button and reflect. 3. My network is dense because I’m connected to a lot of well-connected people.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2012

This post is the third and final in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. Information on a label and a short video clip informs the buyer about the history behind objects including a tulip, fishing boat, licorice and tea towel.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2020

This is a good place to introduce any specific players in your nonprofit as well as describe your organization’s history and how it came to be. If that’s the case, your event calendar’s content should definitely be updated to reflect that. With CTAs, you can help to facilitate that user’s initial giving journey.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

You could even ask volunteers to facilitate a warm introduction for you instead of just giving you a list of names. See if a well-connected board member or current volunteer can go with you to facilitate introductions to key community members. A coffee meet-up is perfect for this type of introduction. Tap into schools.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

For example, imagine you’re creating a course in which learners need to understand the history of developing a process they’re expected to use. You can present the key points in the history of developing the process out of order, and ask the learner to sequence them in the correct order. Detail a process.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. We wanted to end up with a group that reflects the diversity of our County across many strata: age, class, gender, ethnicity, geography, and profession. I struggle with both these options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. What do you do to facilitate it? Chris's post gives a condensed history of Feedburner and how the need for its services has changed given the social media landscape over the past 5 years. What is your thought and reflection process for insight harvesting?

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

For instance, your website should have a dedicated logo or banner that both reflects the goals of your specific auction and illustrates your organization’s core mission. In addition to showcasing your auction items and facilitating registrations, make sure that your website can host “fund-a-need” items. Also, use impact statements!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 12, 2017

The nature of today’s nonprofit workplace——face-paced and heavy workloads—makes it difficult to find the reflective time to put together a learning plan and implement it consistently. The Playbook features a highly practical toolkit that consists of facilitator agendas and worksheets for nonprofit staff to apply the ideas and frameworks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Michigan for the chapter leaders of EPIP which stands for Emerging Practitioners in Philanthropy and again this week for the Bay Area Chapter. Share history ( Detroit Foundation ). I also came across a list of 90 Foundations That Tweet and took at look at their Tweet streams.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. The content focuses on the question of WHY we collect and how our collections reflect our individual and community identities.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

History Museums OPPORTUNITIES - History museums are in many ways the best-suited for visitor participation. As cultural anthropology has swung away from a vision of authoritative history and toward the embrace of multiple perspectives, there is potential for those stories to come from all over the place, including visitors themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. 3) Controlled Collaboration Programmes that facilitate participation but are more controlled, for example numerous efforts to solicit consumer generated ads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

Facilitating people who receive organization???s March of Dimes Nancy White reflects on the project in response to postings by me and Lisa from Rherotic of Me. I set up an H20 list with the snippits of the history. had quite a lot of us writing, reflecting, and ranting. American Lung Association of Minnesota.

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