Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

DISRUPTION: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support. My colleagues at The Monitor Institute just published a study called “ Disruption: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support ,&# a national study of member-based advocacy organizations. View more documents from Working Wikily. and James L. and James L.

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Model Support Studies Advocacy 104

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. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Model Activities Active Activism 98

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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Participatory Practice Fundraising Relationship 39

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Participatory Arts Music Learning 52

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point.

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Participatory Arts Report Case Study 50

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Our Museum started with a clear-eyed assessment of community engagement funding and practices across the UK. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. Dr. Bernadette Peters' provocative 2011 report, Whose Cake is it Anyway? didn't mince words.

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Museum Participatory Resource Place 20

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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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. Be sure to watch their space for more! Presentation.

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Impact Community Social Phoenix 123

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

This new, experimental training is a hands-on deep dive into the MAH’s model. You will learn the theory and practice of how to open your organization to robust community participation. I'm excited to share the MAH's community-first model and to invite you to this in-depth, immersive learning experience.

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Community Participatory Museum Registration 31

Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. The exhibit opens.

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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. Train the Trainers Model. Design Labs. Full Group Interactive Exercises. Facilitating With Sticky Notes.

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Training Train San Jose Instructional Design 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

As trainers, Andrea and I both know the value of “modeling the model,” so we wanted to use and model best practices for designing effective meetings on their preferred platforms. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Design must comes first. Flickr Image by Derek Gavey.

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Facilitation Virtual Arts Participatory 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Documentation of the Visioning Process. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Rwanda Social Media Training Train 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

The report opens with a look at current practices of using networks for citizen-centered social action that are promising for the future. The report doesn’t just leave with current practice, it also covers some scenarios for the future. Seeds of the Future: Connected Citizens Today.

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Network Report Empowerment Structure 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Network Build Yemen Morocco 95

Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

I was involved in early planning for this project, and we were all struck by the enormity of the challenges, our strong desire to make change, and the reality of what might be practical and possible. When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act. to show s/he cares.

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Story Participatory Museum History 47

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

That is to say, we engaged in each Experimonth for the pure enjoyment of it, rather than any real serious or practical purpose. And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' Thus began a year of play.

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Museum Roles Game Participatory 51

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Consider a store, filled to the brink with consumables, one day decides that its inventories are collections, its merchandise is no longer for purchase, and instead it will practice as a museum. Our archeology did not aim to uncover the hidden voice of my grandmother, but instead to begin an ongoing practice of recreation.

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Collaboration North Carolina Museum Artist 36

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution.

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Reflection Columbus Museum Participatory 43

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 Story Project Design 43

Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

So the Community Science Workshop model is to put a drop-in, FREE community science center in a place that is walkable to kids'' lives and schools. We''re really different from traditional science centers in our funding model. We have a few shining, beloved exceptions, but that''s not a significant part of our model at this time.

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Green Interview Share Community 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

The booklet features personal stories from Books, Librarians, and Readers alongside practical explanation of what it takes to coordinate a Living Library. It’s an enjoyable, practical, inspiring read. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. well, you know. Would you use the Living Library?

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Library Model Museum Europe 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0,

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Museum 2.0

JUNE 18, 2014

Who their role models are. Across sports, there is a deliberate embrace of practice at all levels to strengthen participation. 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. Consider soccer.

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Arts Build United States Audience 47

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. If the venue is successful and we share our honest results, won't others want to adopt some of our practices? My model is the shining star. Which has more impact on your actual daily practice?

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Action Ideas St. Louis Museum 31

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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Reflection Conference Resource Arts 69

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. Every program, old and new, should be evaluated against the mission (and the business model) for soundness. Tags: participatory museum professional development.

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Slides Process Video Open 20

Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

While most non-profits are not known for technology, some are, and they are defying the traditional business models that drive technology.” Across the country, geeks inside and outside of government are developing a new model for a participatory and transparent Federal, State and Municipal governments. Data will be shared!

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Conference Government Social Media Influence 38

Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. Trying to cover it up or smooth it out in favor of "best practices" does a disservice to the museum and the audience. Tags: children's museums design business models. But when I really think about it, all my favorites (so far) have one thing in common.

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Support Museum St. Louis NSF 41

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. They feel like things are getting "decided" before they can really think things through.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

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. These courses are designed for adult learners, using a " scholar-practitioner " model. A premise for this work is that we need to be better at working collaboratively???whether

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Arts Community Online Intergenerational 50

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. It was like getting paid to process the day in a lovely setting. In 2004, Anna was the Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the International Spy Museum.

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Museum Boston Participatory Job 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. SL is not some new revolutionary model that has never been seen before. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. Come on, get real already.

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Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

Yes, community involvement is at the heart of our shifted, successful business model. But that business model requires experienced staff who know how to empower people, facilitate meaningful participation, respond to community issues and interests, and ignite learning. What is the metaphor for participatory arts? Not a crowd.

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Journal Participatory Museum Community 54

Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

And for most institutions there's no practical solution to the problem. They model impersonal, businesslike relationships between the institution and the people who care about it the most. This is terrible, both for the visitor and for the museum. These lists do not convey the passion that these people feel for the organization.

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Relationship Museum Game Personal 46

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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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. It's also standard practice in community arts programs. We certainly did the latter but only learned about the importance of the former late in the process.

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Virtual Tech Lesson Develop 21