Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

I’ve always dreamed of accessing a diverse network of people who do nonprofit capacity across different disciplines or what Nancy White has described as “ learning from adjacent practices.” Dearth of resources/cultural practices around curriculum sharing. Lack of platforms through which to network laterally.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. What lessons can you share? Get the game pieces here: Playing grid. Technology cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. I also participated in two other sessions, one about communities of practice moderated by Holly Ross, and one on philanthropy.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

You will learn the theory and practice of how to open your organization to robust community participation. Develop compelling, powerful participatory offers and promises for your prospective partners. Tour MAH participatory exhibitions and shadow MAH community events. Registration is first come, first served.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 9, 2021

While much of the branding and design inspiration we run across is either from consumer brands or individual artists, it all provides us with the opportunity to discover new principles, practices, and approaches that we can incorporate into our nuanced nonprofit world. However, creating accessible work does not have to be hard, or expensive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. A few lessons for assessing civic tech from our work include: A Team Approach. Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. I wonder what lessons or techniques can be learned from her practice that can be applied with the next generation of tools? How much has our environment, culture, or information overload changed?

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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. A good facilitator knows how to shift or tweak the lesson plan in real time if it isn’t working as planned. Pivots can make the difference between a successful session and disaster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Nonprofit Use #2: Sharing Knowledge/Resources As Community of Practice Hashtags can create an ad hoc community of practice or a channel for people in a field to informally share resources or conversation. And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

But for some reason, I applied none of those lessons to my new situation. The book explains how to host events with purpose, drawing lessons from intimate parties, mass happenings, and international summits. It's an easy read, and if you're like me, you'll want to put it into practice right away. Take the lead. Set the table.

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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. It also means that I can't stubbornly soldier on with a lesson plan if it is bombing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2015

When you go online to find medical information, you find information that falls into one of three categories: scientific, practical/useful, or “snake oil.” Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” This “Dr.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

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. Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy! Projects participatory museum storytelling usercontent' How and why did Object Stories come to be?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

My biggest question for these social psychologists is this: how do we apply their lessons to our work? We have some strategies for tackling this: convening diverse content advisors, incorporating anti-bias educational approaches in our design, developing participatory opportunities for visitors to connect past to present.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. My strategy is: make it work really well, research what works and doesn't, and share the design lessons with the world. Which has more impact on your actual daily practice? Maybe not. His is the virus.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. Here are my top ten lessons from The Tech Virtual experiment with regard to design exhibits with a community of amateurs.

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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. I think the backlash against “one-offs” should actually be a backlash against leaders who didn’t learn lessons from those experiments and use those lessons in their future experiments.

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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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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. That means we are looking at theories and principles in light of their application in practice. I designed the course to reflect lessons learned from my doctoral research.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Anna had been the founding Curator of Education at the National Building Museum, led the Rolling Rainforest project, and was a real innovator in developing in-depth participatory design experiences with community members (though I wouldn't have used those words at the time).

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. How can institutions better welcome and integrate this community into their educational advancement practices? Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. 2016 Nonprofit Organizations Institute.

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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. Nonprofit Best Practices / Chicago, IL / Less than $700.

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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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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’ll share some lessons as we go, experiences that I’ve had, and how to also manage different stakeholders and people. So some examples and lessons.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Museums and other venues are offering special programs for teens, for hipsters, for people who want a more active or spiritual or participatory experience. Soccer leagues, weekly yoga, six-session guitar lessons, theater season passes. There's been a lot of innovation in arts programming in the last few years.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

This is a good lesson for museum talk-back design. What advice do you have for ways we might advance the practice of exhibit design for social interaction? Tags: evaluation exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.”

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

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. guestpost Museum of Art and History participatory museum'

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

Why and how museums could develop their co-creative practice with the public, building on ideas from the performing arts and other non-museum organisations (free to download). When an institution becomes wholly participatory, those distinctions often erode. That's not to say these structures came easy.

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