Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture. Strategic Dialogue.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Any questions? The question that comes up every time, the question so big it deserves the impropriety of all caps: BUT WHAT ABOUT QUALITY? PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? ACADEMIC: does it produce new research or knowledge? High participatory quality, low technical quality.

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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. We allowed people to move from group to group once they go their questions answered. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

The creation and communication of this knowledge occurs in social networks of relationships, empowered by social media. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. Examples: WorldChanging: knowledge prodution and sharing. Low barrier to entry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

It has been a pleasure to co-design this session with knowledgeable and smart colleagues who are as obsessed with instructional design and interactive exercises as I am. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. If you deliver training to nonprofits, what are your burning questions about design and delivery of interactive training?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. It’s not solely about how museums can serve communities but rather what are the communities’ resources, knowledge and interests that can inform museum practice? I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. People can be connected in networks through their knowledge or skills or interests. The debriefing question encouraged us to reflect on points of connection and reciprocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

.” To address this issue, she mentioned that Google has a partnership with the Mayo Clinic to create a “ knowledge panel ,” which includes Mayo Clinic writing clinical summaries written at 6th grade reading level for common health searches. This “Dr. As Carrie said, “We are adjusting to the new normal.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

My question, what is the first step you can take towards building this continuous improvement process in your organization? ” We discussed the metaphor of cooking – that if you are organized about doing your shopping and stocking your pantry, having your recipes ready – then cooking meals can be more efficient.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? This isn't just a rhetorical question. The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. The scientists control the process, steer the data collection, and analyze the results.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

In GISKIN, Pandora and Drake aren’t museum people: they have no special knowledge; they ask the same questions the audience is asking and don’t always get answers. They leave LOTS of room for the audience to ask their own questions and fill in their own answers. If none, why the heck not?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2012

When talking about active audience engagement with friends in the museum field, I often hear one frustrated question: how can we get adults to participate? The common museum knowledge on this issue is that adults are timid, that we have lost some of the wonder, impulsiveness, and active creativity of childhood days.

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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. That’s hard if deadlines are looming, but essential to have a session to explore questions such as: What is your facilitation style and philosophy? Do you have a preferred method? Overnight Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. The purpose of the Design Lab was to answer two key questions to gather input for its strategy: How can the Brainerd Foundation and its philanthropic partners accelerate the transition to 21st Century advocacy for grantees?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

We recruited folks and designed software that texted them five times a day for thirty days, asking one question, "Rate your mood 1 (low) to 10 (high)." Experimonth had the potential to generate new scientific knowledge. Beck will be checking in to respond to your comments and questions here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

We talked about Cambodia and one of the questions was (an excellent one), what do teachers need to think about if they are doing an over the web collaborative project with a classroom in the developing world. The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer. How do you know if a charity is legit?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 20, 2007

In an email, Caitlin shared the survey results with me and pointed out a group of questions that revealed the low level of health knowledge and information among Sikoro residents. A preliminary health survey showed that by far the most serious problem confronting the village is malaria, and that is the area where work will begin.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Barry Hessenius recently wrote a blog post questioning the theory that more art into the school day will increase and bolster future adult audiences for art experiences. When we talk about embracing participatory experiences at non-professional levels, arts professionals often get worried that the best work will get drowned out in mediocrity.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. While artists couldn't choose whether their score or comments would be shown, they could choose whether and how to participate given that knowledge. concepts and Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. She approached the question "why should I be picked" in a way that was smart, thoughtful, creative, and lovely. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. The Smithsonian's current (and historic) mission has only one actionable statement: "increase and diffuse knowledge." Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

When I previously wrote about Twitter, that was the extent of my knowledge. to be a more participatory site with comment streams rampantly debating each post topic, but the reality is that my voice dominates the site. If I told you I'd created a participatory website in which 0.3% I’d love Museum 2.0 That’s lousy participation!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

If someone asked you that question, how would you answer? Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. If someone asks you a question on Twitter, you can only respond with 140 characters. "Where were you last night?"

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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.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

I didn't feel like I had the pre-knowledge needed to make useful decisions about how to line up various kinds of legal structures or financing strategies to my goals. I learned new vocabulary and questions to ask myself and others, but the exercise itself felt a bit frustrating and haphazard.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Ask questions, introduce yourself, if you haven’t already. Steven: Want to give it a few more seconds and I’ll go to the next question? Okay, so the second question, why don’t you have a strategic plan? For anyone who’s been my student or come to my trainings, I’m really focused on usable knowledge.

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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. Since the courses are very interactive, learners gain experience in online communication and teamwork as well as new knowledge in the subject of the course.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

Joe explains some of the planned intentional dialogue events: First, for the opening night dinner, we hired a local dance company that is putting together pieces about visiting museums, punctuated by an actor/dancer asking provocative questions to the group. At each table there will be an envelope with questions inside.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

During the selected weekly program -- called Heka Heka Vijijini, which means "busy busy in the village" in Kiswahili -- broadcasters announced an upcoming competition that asked for “the best story of how you’re using the knowledge you’ve gained from this radio program in your life.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

They ask judges to self-define their art knowledge. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. An excellent question posed by Beth Dunn of Small Dots. They make it easy to evangelize. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

For example, in Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives, knowledge and comprehension of content comes before application. Level 5 is a question mark in my mind. Ideas design participatory museum interactives. Narratively, this makes sense. Once you learn about something, you are ready to act on and do it. How do we get there?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

I don't think she is saying SL is a fad that will go away as other people without her depth of knowledge have articulated. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. She is also saying that virtual worlds are not for everyone which is definitely true. way to the future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. The Wikimedia Foundation ambitiously envisions a “world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.”

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

On one hand, I have the knowledge base to help me frame the issues. With that in mind, I turned the question of “who is a museum” to the people, here and on my social platforms, even my personal ones. A museum is _both_ an experience venue _and_ a repository of knowledge. I’ve been visiting museums my whole life.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Experience a Sea of Support - come ride the wave of knowledge!

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

It’s about the skills, knowledge, expertise and know-how you need to make philanthropy happen in your community. The NCTech4Good Conference is a two day event for sharing knowledge about technologies that can advance the mission of nonprofit organizations. Your opportunity to learn. And inspire your supporters to even greater heights.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

For me, the most interesting internal and interpersonal dialogue at Artprize was about these questions, which pushed me to more deeply consider how I make aesthetic judgements and experience art. I personally never felt the impulse to vote. This bore out at Artprize.

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