Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Here are some rituals that I have consistently used over the past few decades: Review the Past Year: I use a tool called the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions that help you look back and ahead.

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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. Scientists design the test questions, steer the data collection, and analyze the results. Science has an answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

That’s why I love looking and testing different methods. Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Here’s just a few: Instructional. Peer Learning / Coaching.

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AUGUST 9, 2021

We develop our skills by seeking, absorbing, questioning, adapting, and experimenting, oftentimes bringing diverse influences together to create something that’s unique for our clients’ needs, but with connections to other relevant spaces. As we look to make an impact, how can we invite community members to create with us from the start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Another way is to let qualitative data inform a hypothesis that you go on to test with numerical data. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

But during the session on Learning in Public yesterday, with Beth Kanter, Co-Author of Networked Nonprofit, Jared Raynor from the TCC Group and Kathy Reich, from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I was reminded that all measurement needs to start with the most fundamental question – why measure? What do you hope to learn?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

For years, I'd give talks about community participation in museums and cultural institutions, and I'd always get the inevitable question: "but what value does this really have when it comes to dollars and cents?" And the next time someone questions the benefits of letting audiences actively participate, send them to Santa Cruz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. The specific practice skills include these three: Ask empowering questions. Ask Good Questions. Often, these types of questions focus on failure or betray that the questioner has an agenda.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Social Media Communities: as a community of thousands we can demand accountability, ask questions, etc. ClimatePrediction.net: allow your computer, when not in use, to be used to help scientists run predictive tests for climate change. What is social media? - Jon Lebkowsky.

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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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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Another way is to let qualitative data inform a hypothesis that you go on to test with numerical data. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change.

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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? You can test it for free for two weeks here. Some of my colleagues, Donna Arriaga, used tools like Trello for a blogging calendar.

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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

MAY 24, 2011

But as it happened, I got the first episode completely ready (to completely test out the concept and the voicemail system) and then launched it. 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. If none, why the heck not?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

It’s been a wild and wonderful year—without question, my most challenging and stimulating yet. We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. It is incredibly rewarding work. I feel lucky.

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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. Each of the prompts was really carefully written and tested to scaffold people to tell a great story. Projects participatory museum storytelling usercontent'

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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)." A critical part of the scientific method is the development of a hypothesis, which can then be tested with well controlled research. The project blew away our expectations.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

Studying engineering taught me to think like a designer: state the problem, brainstorm, test, iterate. The “we” isn’t always staff; in most cases, our staff work with community partners in a participatory, co-creative model. The question is not, “what do I want to do?” We develop the ideas. We explore the possible programs.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

Attendees brought up questions about how they can get more involved with financial discussions in their institutions, how we can change the ways we approach fundraising, how we can think about earned income differently. Testing, refining, experimenting, and doing it all with style. Participatory art and co-creation on the rise.

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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. How can we use them as a test of how things are going at the conference? One of the reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.”

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show. But in the case of Abbott Square (the plaza in question), we''re building something new. This temporary pilot allows us to test out the possibilities.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

If you are interested in this topic, you might also like this post about the Advice exhibition which tested a similar principle. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Projects guestpost Book: The Participatory Museum.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. I partnered with staff member Bambi Grajek-Specter, and we went out into the galleries armed with a simple question: "What would you recommend that I see?"

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2009

These challenges posed a creative test, which individuals could interpret and solve as they pleased. While each challenge had a specific question/theme, the form of the artifacts were left up to the individual participants. set up any participatory elements and organize the opening, which occurred the following Friday or Saturday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content?

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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. Relatedly, the geography question could glean some relevant data about how local and non-local visitors view and judge the efforts of a community-based museum.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. Each of the prompts was really carefully written and tested to scaffold people to tell a great story. How and why did Object Stories come to be? That is more curated.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

It's an experiment that merges two of my greatest interests: finding novel, easy ways for visitors to contribute content to museums finding questions that draw such compelling responses that random peoples' answers would be worth browsing To participate, all you need is a phone. To find questions that yield amazing visitor-created content.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2008

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% of visitors add their own content, you'd probably send me to a dictionary to look up "participatory." I’d love Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

I learned new vocabulary and questions to ask myself and others, but the exercise itself felt a bit frustrating and haphazard. This relationship bit helped me think about how different kinds of folks will be involved with a highly participatory, community-co-created project in the long-term.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

Answer the question, and you''re in. We invited people to slide up to a bar and use a napkin to scrawl an answer to the question "How do you deal with loss?" A good measurement doesn''t need to exhaustively answer every single question about a project. Make a scribble, and you''re not. That''s it. Each talkback is different.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I wanted to test a hypothesis that we should be segmenting our members not by demographics but by interest, in order to foster that emotional connection. Kristen will be responding to comments and questions here on the blog. And we confirmed that hypothesis. and that solitary experience person might be 20 or they might be 80.

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