sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

To learn more about knowledge work and its role in grantmaking, check out the post Beyond the Newest Philanthropy Buzzword: Knowledge Work is Core to Equitable Change. Data is part of the tracking and monitoring innate to grantmaking and can be part of intentional organizational learning processes.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. We blatantly borrowed the brilliant technique the San Diego Museum of Natural History used to write labels based on visitors’ questions. Understanding what you think helps us think about how we display our collections. What do you want to know?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

If you want to a chance to win, leave a comment on this post sharing something that you’d like to learn about Impact Leadership or some wisdom from your experience about practicing impact leadership! ” The brainstorming techniques from the previous day will yield many, many insights and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The program is called Tech2Empower and you can learn more about it here. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. 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

MARCH 1, 2016

My colleague Cindy Leonard has used her photoshop magic to help each of the speakers transform into a character. This is a session where you’ll be an active participant in your learning and will leave ready to apply lots of practical tips and techniques that will give your trainings more impact. Peer Learning Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. And second, what techniques can help us find more? I love this question.

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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. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Use Participatory Research Techniques To Discover Engagement Topics. . — Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014. The common tip?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

During the first week of January , I use the quiet time for three New Year’s rituals that help me prepare for the year ahead and identify professional growth areas. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Circulations - shaping the flow of media (e.g. Performance ???

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. And second, what techniques can help us find more? I love this question.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 16, 2010

At the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts, here were some of the things I learned from the social object hunt: Social behavior is highly object-specific. To me, emulation is a kind of learning activity. Read about the Human Library in chapter 3 of The Participatory Museum by searching that term here.)

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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. Like any other skill you want to improve, it helps to get a baseline assessment of your listening skills. Reflective Listening Techniques. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Is your organization collecting stories or anecdotal data in a disciplined way that helps you with your content strategy?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I taught a section on developing and implementing an effective content strategy after some exercises to help participants identify target audiences, create personas, measurable objectives, and channels. It struck me that an effective nonprofit content strategy is a process of continuous improvement. What are your best tips?

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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. Design must comes first. Finally, you identify next steps and follow up. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Our track was one of three tracks for participants to dive deep into a topic and learn from peers through dialogue. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. As someone who has been in the nonprofit field 35 years, I can sum up my experience as: ”Remember, it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A Learning History of the CARE LAC - Institute for Strategic Clarity Guatemala Poverty Project. Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. Key is a participatory development process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. They will help when they are invited to. He talks about about the importance of experiments and the listen, learn, and adapt skills required. “Start small.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Patricia Patrizi, Elizabeth Heidi Thompson, Julia Coffman, and Tanya Beer, “ Eyes Wide Open: Learning as Strategy Under Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty.” The professional tools for monitoring and analyzing social media data can be expensive and pose a steep learning curve. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

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. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

In addition to tracking app deployments, Code for America has developed metrics that help them understand their impact on the governments they work with, the communities they engage, and the larger civic technology ecosystem. L earn and borrow from others. Guides to Civic Tech Assessment.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning: The only valid data is quantitative data. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Do only numbers matter? Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The book looks at how ICT can help solve global poverty issues in a range of fields, including disaster relief, health education, micro finance, and education. It is filled with great examples and stories from around the world. Her book is fantastic workbook that will lead you through six fail-proof steps to social marketing success.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. Personally, I’ve learned to work in whole new worlds, from fundraising to management to community development. It is incredibly rewarding work.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. Stories stick in our minds, get us energized and poised to take action, and provide a memorable framework that help us transfer messages to others.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. Stories stick in our minds, get us energized and poised to take action, and provide a memorable framework that help us transfer messages to others.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. The website for the stories is beautiful.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 12, 2017

We learned how to write visions, how to use them, and how to share them with others. It was even more useful to learn how participatory writing visions can be. Writing a vision can empower you, clarify your thinking, and help you change the world. Use the "hot pen" or automatic writing technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

I am asking myself and colleagues who do networked NGO training and social media skill building outside the of US – the question about building resilient networks and how to incorporate non-violent techniques. [ here and here ]. We don’t have any answers, but we all feel that our work is all the important as is a conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

tools and techniques. The topics include: Control and Transparency: How comfortable is the foundation with the participatory nature of Web 2.0 technologies to help create networks of people interested in certain issues and connect with grantees to tack action? re learning as we go. I'm still wading my way through it.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! Some of the key lessons we discussed were: providing crystal-clear criteria and constraints to help participants focus their work.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Every time we collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organization and communication. We offer these tools in the spirit of sharing and look forward to learning about the techniques you use in your own community. We look for partners who have: An understanding of and desire to help meet your community’s needs.

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