Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. There are usually two aspects of this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. 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

MARCH 1, 2016

Whether you are facilitating a session with your board, staff, or hundreds of folks in a room, you’ll find ways to design instructional content that interests, engages, and inspires action. Instructional Design. How To Think Like An Instructional Designer for Your Nonprofit Training. Design Thinking As Instructional Technique.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

A narrative, either true or fictitious, in prose or verse, designed to interest, amuse, or instruct the hearer or reader; tale. It’s participatory. Let’s start with some definitions of what a story is to help us understand what our end goal is in telling a story. A fictitious tale, shorter and less elaborate than a novel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The facilitation methods are participatory. Each method provides step-by-ste instructions, examples, templates, and additional reading links.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). One of the things I always focus on in participatory exhibit design is ensuring that everyone has the same tools to work with.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 27, 2009

I’ve long admired Improv Everywhere , the NYC-based participatory public art group. The MP3 experiment is an exercise in following instructions. He explains that you will have to follow his instructions to have “the most pleasant afternoon together.” Two and a half minutes in, the “omnipotent voice” Steve introduces himself.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. There were no written instructions, just a mural that suggested what to do and labels that prompted people for their name and memory. He creates a visual representation of his story. What was it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Here’s just a few: Instructional. Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). That’s why I love looking and testing different methods. Peer Learning / Coaching. Any many more.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. Are you making that shift in your thinking about participatory project design?

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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. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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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. Written instructions were not enough to compel them to do otherwise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. You are handed a pre-mixed color and a brush and a set of instructions. Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Good instructional design to create an environment for peer dialogue begins with good on boarding and for people to connect with something they already know or believe.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end. No one planned the love locks, but their success is rooted in the same principles that make all the best participatory projects work: it requires no instructions beyond its own example. Nor are they historic.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. You are handed a pre-mixed color and a brush and a set of instructions. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. SETUP Cut your instructions down to as little text as possible. Accolades are more inspiring than instructions.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The program operates like a camp that is co-led by the teens involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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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. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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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. The trick for creating new social media is to use those lessons to eight the odds in your favor, rather than as a set of instructions that guarantees success.&#. “Start small.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

The bulk of my professional work is training and teaching and that requires reflection to remember and document your instructional processes and techniques so you can also train other trainers. It helps you find purpose in life and success in your professional work. Reflection helps energize me and helps me focus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

To help please vote for the Carpets for Communities project in an online charity competition by going to www.votechildren.org (it will redirect to our main website) and following the instructions to register and vote. More details at www.carpetsforcommunities.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

Give your supporters resources like The Top 3 Things to Do After Making A Fundraising Page that gives step by step instruction on the best way to get your message out. Participatory fundraising often starts with events that allow people to get involved causally with a small time commitment. People love to talk about themselves!

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act. But the most beautiful participatory elements are mostly symbolic in nature (and designed by Karina White, a very talented person). There was no specific instruction with the dots.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

This might sound unlikely, but with the right instruction set and a kind of game piece or card to use as a prompt, I think it could work. The instruction becomes a kind of social object that gives people something to talk about. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent. Want to take it to the next level? What would you do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

These techniques are described in more detail in “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. Reflective listening skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a team meeting, training, or interacting with co-workers and whether you are the facilitator or a participant.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. exhibition guestpost inclusion participatory museum' Stefania will respond to your comments and questions here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” Instructional Design Notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

I set up a flickr group, uploaded some instructions and some photos from the past half-century, and invited people to celebrate. In addition, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has an excellent round up of advice on engaging audiences - which is necessary if you want to dip your toes into participatory media.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Ensure that you as convenor are talking for a very small amount of the time--ideally just to frame, contextualize, provide clear instructions, and keep people moving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

The session and moderator guidelines are designed to make the next a very interactive and participatory conference. It will be interesting to see if this achieved and there is a high likelihood since powerpoints (except for instructional sessions) have been banned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork. The blog focuses on instructional approaches, not on the technologies themselves. A premise for this work is that we need to be better at working collaboratively???whether

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I hope to share some simple and fun ways to create "shoulder-to-shoulder" instructional media for the panel on Screencasting at NTC I'm doing. How do you create good instructional media in a reasonable amount of time and do a good enough job that helps people learn something by viewing it? and follow the instructions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

And then the fee for service is mostly school districts that contract with the Workshop for science enrichment/science instruction. For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop. Geography is key.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. The podcast outlines the metaphor further. The recipe can be passed around and shared. There are comments in code which as Zittrain notes, ???Are

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