Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. It is at this point, each person gets to vote for the ideas that they feel are the strongest. Have people share why they chose or rejected certain items. Review the the results.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

But if you want to hear them, you have to play them yourself--or check out hundreds of interpretations shared by musicians on the Song Reader website. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2014

He shares a story. Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Over three months, about 600 people filled mason jars with personal memories and put them on display. A man walks into a museum. He puts it on the wall.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. They diversified the voice of immigration in the exhibition and encouraged people to share their own histories verbally. design exhibition Museum of Art and History participatory museum usercontent'

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

According to Nina Simon, “community” is defined as public stakeholders or beneficiaries that have a shared interest in the organization. Elizabeth Castillo defines a stakeholder as “a person (or entity) who can affect and/or be affected by your organization.” Collaborate through field work and participatory practice.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

In the spirit of a popular post written earlier this year , I want to share the behind the scenes on our current almost-museumwide exhibition at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, Santa Cruz Collects. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. We had some money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Many successful nonprofit professionals use rituals, either for personal productivity or team productivity. Update & Review My Personal Resilience Plan: In my workshops , I help nonprofits improve their personal resilience through life-work balance. I’ve shared My Three Themes below.

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Candid

MAY 15, 2024

To make the process transparent and participatory, we also asked other values-aligned organizations for feedback on our initial framework before putting it into action. We continue to implement this open feedback cycle, as it helps us ensure that HF’s fundamental approach remains rooted in trust and connection.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. A black box with people crowded around, talking and sharing and making and doing. Humans empower each other.

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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. This post shares my reflections on the projects and five things I learned from their work.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Wherever possible, Vi personalized the tour to individuals in the group. Vi was unapologetically personal about her own relationship to the content on display. What made it so special? 5'11", 6'1", etc.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 18, 2011

We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. and sharing opinions (“better in their natural form," “my joyful youth circa 1963”). Maybe this person was writing about his or her preference for neon paper products, but I doubt it. who were the surfers who used them?” “how how old are they?")

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2014

How do we get personal stories out there? Would you like to share this with others that may contribute to our program? I love this blog from last year that is a quick read on how to get someone to tell their personal story. This blog talks about participatory fundraising ideas and the effect of healthy competition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century."

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Building Meaningful Engagement: Crowdfunding can assist nonprofits in not just raising funds but also in constructing significant participatory relationships with donors, potentially expanding their current supporter base. A succinct cause will generate wider sharing and provoke more donations. Jump into Crowdfunding Now!

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

We utilize datamaking as part of shared meaning making. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. I asked each person to fill in cells in a matrix. Building knowledge is a social process where we make meaning together.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

This post was originally published on The Ross Collective ; it is being shared here with the author’s permission. I was reminded of this recently, at the first evening of the online course in Grant Proposal Writing: Our fifteen working adult students logged in to Zoom and were welcomed into our shared virtual classroom.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

The events are informal, personal, and fun, but our feedback mechanism--onsite and post-event surveys--not so much. We have an intern, Kathryn, who emailed each participant individually to thank them for coming, shared their personal photo, and gave them the link to the rest of the photos. We got more feedback. you tell me.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 12, 2022

Every story we tell is a serious of events that happened to a person, place or project. It’s participatory. . “The narration of an incident or a serious of events” is very applicable to the type of storytelling non-profits do. And I would add that in this narration, we layer in emotions and details.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

I personally really like any activism that includes individual expression like this (like www.sorryeverybody.com ) If someone gets out the crayons and makes a sign, they are definitely engaged in your cause. Tim Fullerton from Oxfam America - who organized the campaign and will be speaking about at NTC - shared the URL of the YouTube video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The workshop was focused on personal resilience and self-care based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and was part of series of workshops on resilience. Their space is designed for local nonprofits to connect, share ideas and develop solutions together. My audience included many people who were blind. … Read More.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In different countries, I''ve noticed broad trends in how people feel most comfortable sharing their voice. For example: American museum visitors often feel comfortable sharing their own opinions/stories/creative expression.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 30, 2013

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. We have about 25 now. You have to remind people, keep reaching out.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? And then you show up in person and feel jilted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes. 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. What was your experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. As you can see by looking at the WEF Instagram account, they recorded the answers to the questions during the meeting and have been sharing the Q/A on video here.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. Show that your organization is willing to do the work—and that your DEI statement is not just words on a website—by finding opportunities to share power with community leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. " That means I've made it easy to share my work with you and others. That's why I remixed the fundraising widget on my blog in support of Creative Commons Annual Campaign. I've reaped the benefits too.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 26, 2018

In the past, I treated keynotes as opportunities to share insights and stories. I rarely shared explicit calls to action beyond the option to buy a book. I realized I was feeling the same fear and excitement that comes with any truly participatory project. Here's the link if you can't see the video embedded below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Source: Share Your Ideas. 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 purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away. Science has an answer.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

While preparing and consuming food is a true connector at in-person events, doing so in a digital format can be an excellent way to foster engagement and social interaction, giving people a little bit of joy and togetherness in what has been a complicated time. . The opportunity to collectively breathe and share with one another is important.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Today, I wanted to think about participatory elements, something so essential to this blog. As important as excellence is, shared success is equally important in this field. Every person left that interactive realizing how hard piece-work was. Me with a friend As I keep saying, I’ve been to a few museums of late. That’s huge.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. The sheet gave people a lightweight tool to use in social interaction, to trade and share stamps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. questions that draw from personal experience, not abstraction. Ask yourself.

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