Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

They wanted to strengthen connections with ETR’s Health Equity Framework, an evolving model that is essential to all of the work we do. Pre-assessment gathers a sense of participants’ current knowledge and skill so that facilitators can tailor training designs to “meet participants where they are.”. Taking Care of the R-Team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

After spending a year facilitating a peer learning community of Knight Foundation grantees hosting giving days, one of the most factors for success for local no nonprofits participating is having about 6-9 months timeframe to develop a plan. There are some key people you want in attendance to make the party great. Click to Download.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

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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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

It’s like a band with no director – everyone is playing their own song and together it’s just noise instead of beautiful chords of music. Facilitator. Without good leadership, everything falls apart. Leaders can see the path forward for the organization. They can help the organization set and achieve goals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project. The photo shows us modeling “shoulder to shoulder&# learning. Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

Stories surround us on the radio, in newspapers, in our music boxes, in short web videos and on large screens in movie theatres. We are currently trying to raise $40,000 of our $200,000 budget through Kickstarter, the online fundraising platform that facilitates grassroots investment. January 21.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps? And, further, efforts like Adobe AIR, and Microsoft Silverlight , are bringing full-fledged desktop application functionality to applications in the cloud.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

we like to buy mobile phones to have fun, talk to friends, listen to music, tweet and connect on Facebook.” should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” “I freak out hearing people talk about using mobiles for ICT for. development in Africa. On the core.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Furthermore, one of the things that actually one of my colleagues did that had to change was music and other sounds playing on a website designed for some of our clients; they could not easily locate the place to turn this music off and it disabled them from using a screen reader. " - from Tom Dekker via email. Next Steps?

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Qgiv

JUNE 22, 2021

And, since all virtual engagements are facilitated by your digital tools, it’s the perfect method of collecting valuable data and determining if and where engagements are dropping off. This can be a musical number, a choreographed dance, or a stand-up comedy bit. BONUS – See this idea in action!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I heard the tollbooth story, I started thinking about gifting as a model for participatory experiences in museums. Why is gifting a model worth exploring? You gift the community a book review, I gift an overlapping community a music review. How can we improve on these models to becomes sites for participatory giving?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. social networking model to the real world, the implications of tracking, publishing, and spreading become obvious.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2014

Your social capital includes supporting your colleagues, community, contributing your time to volunteer, sharing your knowledge, modeling charitable behavior to your network, educating others about giving is important. But was thrilled Yo-Yo Ma use the opportunity to promote culture and music. How cool is that? (8)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

As I move out of doing implementation, and into more evaluation, planning and facilitation of technology change within organizations, I wanted to spend some time articulating what I have tried my best to practice when I’ve been in a place of providing technology support. In my work people learn evaluative thinking from me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

What would it be like if we could help nonprofits with the following: Asking whether technology implementations in their organization in the past have really facilitated their mission? How does increasing use of networking technology, on-line presence, and internet communications facilitate or hinder work that is done face to face?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The South by Southwest (SXSW) Conferences + Festivals offer the unique convergence of original music, independent films, and emerging technologies. Less a conference than a facilitated retreat, the 2016 gathering will encourage the active and full engagement of all participants. Mar 11 - 20. SXSW / Austin, TX / Price varies.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

And so for some organizations, going to a hybrid model, which I’ll talk about for a little bit is going to be most advantageous to the health of your organization. maybe not training, comradery time, you know, some facilitated group time together where y’all get back your rhythm. So it’s not an either/or.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 11, 2007

Interiors are designed to facilitate diverse use of the content. Book, video, and music stores are 2.0 When you go to the library or the music store, you probably have some clear intentions in mind. This is not to say there aren't problems with the library/content vendor model. Libraries are the ultimate 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

They come up with an entire CD of music and poetry and we perform them on the last day of camp, so it gives people a real opportunity, hands-on, to really get out there and share what they've learned. How to have better practices in communication, and I think one of the things we do at Art and Action is model collective leadership.

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