Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” ” Jo Wolfe, Aseem Thakur, Gillian Tan, Cherisse Beh, Katie Bengaard, and Toral Cowieson joined our session as small group facilitators. We opted for the latter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of participating in a convening on “Data Informed Philanthropy” hosted by the Packard Foundation – not only was the content compelling (stay tuned for a post on that), but it was also a fantastic opportunity to observe one of the best facilitators I know, Allen Gunn from Aspiration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

I’ve just returned from an inspiring week in Kiev, Ukraine where I got to facilitate a training for women’s organizations organized by Wake , an amazing start up founded by two respected colleagues Trish Tierney and Heather Ramsey. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. What participatory techniques have you translated from in-person meetings to online meetings successfully? For the voting part, you would use a google document.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Year in Review During the first two months of 2020, I taught workshops and facilitated digital transformation innovation labs in London and Warsaw. Training & Facilitation: I have been facilitating online meetings for many years and when the pandemic hit, I was very busy teaching these techniques to nonprofits around the world.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Woodford and Preston list four main outcomes to validate stakeholder participation: helping organizations make informed decisions, facilitating stakeholder commitment and support, stakeholder education about the organization, and successful program implementation. Collaborate through field work and participatory practice.

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Collaboration North Carolina Effective Participatory 98

Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. . Invest in, support, and learn from intermediary organizations, many of which can help you adopt participatory approaches to grantmaking. . Not reinventing the wheel.

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Guidelines Participatory Case Study Philanthropy 105

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

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. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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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. But almost ALL of those opportunities are facilitated by people. Humans empower each other.

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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. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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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. Not surprisingly, their perception was that the conversation had been poorly facilitated and had no structure! I am a member of the Technology of Participation network of facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The panel was facilitated by Di Dang, Google Developer Design Advocate. The guidebook focuses on “participatory machine learning,” which actively involves a diversity of stakeholders – technologists, UXers, policymakers, end users, and citizens.” I learned about the People + AI Guidebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

The summit will be an opportunity for deeper peer learning for nonprofit change makers in three theme areas: digital strategy , impact leadership , and the future of technology. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It downloads and it captures. New power is made by many.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. But participatory facilitation can be taught. What kind of participatory techniques have you seen work well on tours? What made it so special?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. More importantly, after every class I facilitate, I do a debrief with students as part of evaluating the training. I use this design checklist to identify interactive exercises.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making. Change, of course, is only possible when we embrace both parts and whole—the notion of dialectic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Co-Designing and Working with Other Facilitators and Trainers. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Innovation Facilitation Techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. Lack of platforms/resources to facilitate innovations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. Not only is the content superb, but I also observed and took notes about some excellent participatory facilitation techniques. I’ll share that in my next post!

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Philanthropy Cambodia Impact Learning 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. This accomplished a few things: I didn’t have to trash my plans and revert to a traditional lecture. I made it participatory so participants helped move the furniture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide. It refers to the part of a participatory process where you know the problem or consensus won’t come easily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Facilitator bits. You did great.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act, a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. I know that might seem old fashioned, but being a trainer and facilitator and in the room with social change leaders is what inspires and energizes me. This past year was my 4th year as an adjunct professor at Middlebury College.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture.

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Measure Community Organization Arizona 40

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief. Engaging in ongoing dialogue that is facilitated by a third party who is experienced in creating a safe space. Studying (and implementing) community-based participatory research methods. __.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

In 2010, I launched the Networked Nonprofit with a flurry of speaking and training gigs literally around the world, while also designing and facilitating many workshops, peer learning groups, and coaching grantees as Visiting Scholar. I now look forward to further refining curriculum and workshops over the coming months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. Plus it is always a pleasure for me to observe “Gunner’s&# facilitation techniques (I learn so much).

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Global Network Participatory Netsquared 96

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

This participatory workshop will help you answer the question: What does old-school community organizing have to teach the wired activist? Each group will present its campaign strategy and tactics to the entire workshop, and facilitators will offer feedback and additional ideas.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. And (don’t forget this bit) if you don’t trust the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Plus, my track facilitators were great!) Also, the diverse roles, backgrounds, talents, and opinions of my fellow attendees really enriched the discussions we had and enhanced my overall takeaway from the Summit. Can you give an example of how you applied what you learned from the 14LCS to your daily work?

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