Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process.

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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 had some money. You can find several more photographs here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

This year, 2012, will have a focus on designing and delivering capacity building projects with NGOs outside the US. I now look forward to further refining curriculum and workshops over the coming months.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever. We wrote a toolkit about our process. This project wove together many different participatory threads. This project wove together many different participatory threads. Short story: we learned a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

” I create a few pages in the beginning to write about my themes, what makes me happy, what to improve, and major projects for the year. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. 3) Start A New Journal: I use a large Moleskine (8 x 11.5)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Why Use One?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Only measure impact, not process. I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. Storytelling Project is an experiment in collecting community feedback.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

That's how I felt when artist Ze Frank got in touch to talk about a potential museum exhibition to explore a physical site/substantiation for his current online video project, A Show (s ee minute 2:20, above). He is an authoritative artist of the social web with a slew of accolades and a suite of diverse projects under his belt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. C hallenge assumptions : “What do you think you will lose if you start sharing responsibility for the implementation process?”. It helps people process complex thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. Before the workshops, they facilitated a brainstorming and collaborative voting process to identify topics and teams.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

The ability to maintain a certain process or state. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Sustainability depends on knowledge; social media facilitate knowledge production, processing and distribution. We’re really talking about using no more resources than we can replenish. What is social media? -

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. What is it?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Only measure impact, not process. I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. And so it goes …….

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Dd co-founder and executive director Emily Jacobi recently showcased some of Dd's projects at an event hosted by the Center of Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) in Berkeley, California. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

And you've decided that you want to integrate community feedback into the development process. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Movement, making, and imaginative projects are all good for shaking new ideas loose. You're planning a new exhibition.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. There were 14 great teams pitching their Projects at the Conference, but only 3 voted as prize winners. The Process. There were many excellent ideas (check out the Project Gallery !) About NetSquared.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Roberto Bedoya : The "Yes And" Argument and its Civic Implications Bedoya, the Executive Director of the Tucson Pima Arts Council, makes a beautiful statement that arts administrators need to facilitate a multiplicity of leading voices, or as he puts it, "the courage of imagination and the plural."

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. well, you know.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

My firm guides leaders and organizations in strategic plans and governance processes that deepens social change, racial justice, stakeholder engagement and community strength. And I’ll talk a lot more about that when I talk about the process. . So let’s see oops, yeah. Where are we not putting our energy?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

We’re going to be using strategic planning processes to talk about how we can engage folks in helping to design the services, the programs, the community infrastructure that we all live in, right? So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. How do we do this well?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

MuseumCamp is a playful, intense, spirited 3-day adventure in which small teams of diverse professionals do a rapid-fire project together on a theme. Last week, I focused on the 2014 theme (social impact assessment) and the many creative evaluation projects produced by campers. Tag Team the Facilitation. Acknowledge the dips.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

But that business model requires experienced staff who know how to empower people, facilitate meaningful participation, respond to community issues and interests, and ignite learning. There are many curator and museum director voices in the article, but not a single quote from a visitor who engaged in one of these community projects.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I was the project manager/curator for the exhibition, leading both the Second Life-based community exhibit design process and the real world translation of virtual exhibits. We shrunk the exhibit design process (concept to floor) from 2 years to five months. On many levels, The Tech Virtual experiment was a success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Do this before before a classroom blogging project or external organizational blog which is more visible. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Take a look at the Horizon project for some excellent examples of this.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This focus on process also bore out in lots of the conversations I had and overheard with artists. When you see a set of larger than life drawings of Arnold Schwarzenegger in a record store (image), or a mist and projection installation in a loading dock, how do you interpret the experience? A mermaid made of thousands of toothpicks.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The total buying power of this community is projected to be more than $790 billion and the surveys indicate that the LGBT community is especially likely to consider supporting charitable organizations for which they are committed with a planned gift. This event focuses on streamlining processes and operations for nonprofits in New York.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

If ever there was a mandate to reexamine the role and process of funding, now is that time. Nonprofits undergo an arduous application and vetting process designed to provide funders a measure of confidence that their investment will achieve an intended outcome. The process is a time-intensive, laborious grind for applicants.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

of other projects. According to Shirky, the three elements for success for a open, participatory projects online are: 1. The same goes for projects like these. It’s a great video, and only around 10 minutes long - watch it. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

The Greenpeace Mobilization Lab has a project proposal idea for a “ Mobilization Journal ” as part of the Knight News Challenge. ” This blog shares some thoughts about this project and I have to give it a big round of applause. It’s open for comments and feedback right now – or “applause.”

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2016

Good design is an iterative process, a back and forth conversation between the designer and organization, and most times, with the organization's stakeholders. The process varies for each organization depending on its culture and values, as well as the particular piece being designed. Facilitate. Set Roles and Expectations.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

Pop Up” has become an international buzz term to describe ephemeral, experimental projects--from pop up restaurants to pop up boutiques--but a “Pop Up Museum” is still somewhat mystifying. While the kit offers a step-by-step guide for organizing pop ups, I want to share some of the more unexpected takeaways I’ve learned through this process.

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