Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Whether your donors are transactional or high value (including mid-level and recurring donors) or participatory (like event participants and volunteers), building healthy relationships with them today—and retaining them—recognizes the responsibility we all have to our constituents, our communities, and, ultimately, to ourselves.

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Storytelling Donor Cancer Guidelines 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

The skills that we are focusing on are “networked leadership” skills both online and offline and working with self and working with others. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Be aware of what they say, how they say it and body language. Observe and Understand Body Language.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our practice emerged (and it truly emerged – our parent organization Counterpart International developed its theory of change after over 50 years of working in communities around the world) and was grounded in community led development. The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

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. Participatory Facilitation Techniques. Training in Another Language: Working with Translators and Interpreters. Facilitating With Sticky Notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place, and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

We'll discuss best practices, platforms, cloud services and filesharing, how to edit together when you're not in the same place and how to agree on ways to tell your story when you may not be speaking the same language. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts!

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Collaboration Storytelling Video Thailand 44

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

During this simple, ten-minute activity, we curated our own experience by practicing “high levels of noticing” and by investigating museum signage on the wall and online. We use language throughout the tour to encourage the interpersonal, e.g. “make eye contact with two new museum friends.”

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Museum Interview New York Interaction 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Raymond raised some good reflective questions about backchannels that are still very relevant four years later as back channels goe more mainstream and search for best practices on how to incorporate them into our conferencing experience. See Dave Winer's comments here, or as someone on the vlog list "Fighting for civilty using rudeness.".

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

Participatory work can be very labor-intensive. They aren''t intended to force fit our work to aspirational language; instead, they are intended to make transparent that which is existing but ephemeral. Institutional culture is something I never really understood before and I am now completely fascinated by how it can shape work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. Communities of practice theory.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 20, 2008

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. The motivation behind it is the same: the body language equivalent of saying "you should look at this.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. They may feature community gardens or exhibit labels in languages tailored to locals. Trying to cover it up or smooth it out in favor of "best practices" does a disservice to the museum and the audience. It's not their size or type or subject matter.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. They show the possibilities of text in our spaces, and the ways our writers are using language to include (rather than exclude) audiences.

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Museum Work Social Media History 21

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects. If your institution says it is bold and fearless, how do your programs support that? What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations?

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

I''m curious what "single measure" tests you are using to compare projects and improve your practice. We asked Brandt to also count any responses that were "aggressive"--swear words, violent language, etc. design evaluation Museum of Art and History participatory museum usercontent' What simple number has changed your work?

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Test Museum Participatory Measure 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

To help us learn more about how to apply Lean Start Up ideas to nonprofit causes and organizations, Meg Rulli is the Social Media Director for Lean Impact and her colleagues will be contributing a regular blog post covering different aspects of the Lean Impact practices. Ashley Meyers, Code For America (Development and Engagement Manager).

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Impact Method San Francisco Social 122

Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. And they make participation more accessible by creating easier opportunities for people to engage at times and in places and languages that work for them. Technology Isn’t a Short-Cut to Equity.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Democratized problem-solving: These tools can empower communities and stakeholders to actively participate in solution design, promoting a more inclusive and participatory approach. These tools can analyze donor preferences and behaviors to tailor fundraising approaches and target potential donors more effectively.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Julie Ha Truong will outline best practices in community engagement in planning. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I could practically teaching this class. And even though this is all standard strategic planning language, for some of you, you’re like, “I got this.

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Community Video Slides Survey 81

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

We continuously iterated our pop up museum format with different set up designs and language to realize a structure that satisfied these objectives. Having a lot of pop up museums and observing what did and didn’t work enabled us to learn more about our community while providing practical, real-life content for the organizer’s kit.

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