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Grantmaking: What’s Participation Got to Do with It?

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Lots of grantmakers are intrigued by participatory grantmaking. Participatory grantmaking invites to decision-making tables people who have historically been excluded. Why Would a Grantmaker Choose a Participatory Grantmaking Approach? So, what does participatory grantmaking look like in practice? Those at the top decide.

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7 Ideas for a Virtual New Year’s Eve Event

AccelEvents

Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . Make use of live streaming video features included with your virtual event platform to stream the entertainment and enable live chat features so attendees can communicate with one another. Virtual Game Night.

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Connect with TechSoup at NCVS!

Tech Soup

Elliot will be talking with participants about technology planning for nonprofits, and Evonne and Susan will be talking about interactive online events and social media tools. Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools. We think Watchitoo.

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7 Ideas for a Virtual New Year’s Eve Event

AccelEvents

Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . Make use of live streaming video features included with your virtual event platform to stream the entertainment and enable live chat features so attendees can communicate with one another. Virtual Game Night.

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags. To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. For those of us who have been attending blogging and tech conferences, the backchannel is not new.

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Beyond Broadcast: Wrap Up

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He made this point: But, participatory culture is changing the nature and topology of ours. And it's not just that we can build Wikipedia or Flickr streams. It's ours in a different way. We can create works with strangers, with anonymous crowds, and in all the other ways we're inventing. This is a very different sense of ours.