Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

This year I used a new tool recommended by colleague Alexandra Samuel, the “ Year Compass, a free downloadable booklet that provides a set of structured reflection questions. In early January, I read through the journal and think about accomplishments:What gave me a sense of purpose and feeling of personal and professional fulfillment?

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Professional Finland Journal Reflection 0

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. I’ve done many multiple day, intense training sessions. I wish I had done a structured creative thinking exercise to get people comfortable. Leadership Training Design'

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Reflection NTEN Change Facilitation 124

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I may start with numbers, but the process of collecting anecdotal information or stories in a structured way from your audience/stakeholders can help you generate insights about what those numbers actually mean. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change.

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Story Data Analysis Structure 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. But, not just skills training, but learning to understand the impact of connected society and transformation.

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Tunisia Reflection NGO Libya 104

Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. In my highly anecdotal research, the bus is a more social space than the train or subway. Small size, repeat visits.

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Participatory Design Museum Childhood 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

We created The Emerging Leaders Playbook which served as the “text book” or content for the training. This assessment will give you a good sense of where you stand now and offers a structured approach to practicing based on your assessment. Ask Good Questions. ” This builds trust and establishes your objectivity.

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Skills Build Technique Language 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

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." That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most. Facilitator bits.

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Facilitation Reflection Museum Participatory 32

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

First, we realized that our museum is different from other museums, but our benefits and membership structure were the same as others. Our goal is to sign up 2,000 new CYO members in the next 12 to 18 months, and to convert 25% of those 8,000 current individual and dual members to the new structure. How did this project start?

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Interview Director Museum Arts 46

Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

Structure the space with a clear story (and commensurate rules). Structure means context, and context means norms that people can easily grasp and deal with. Many museums do a fabulous job training staff to engage with visitors, but those explainers are not necessarily trained to encourage visitors to talk with one another.

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Museum Myspace Facilitation Social Network 20

sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking?

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Participatory Facilitation Philanthropy Skills 82

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2007

But now, many bars are also offering participatory experiences around content. The experience doesn't feel social, even if it involves social interactions, because it's structured. Flash back six months and I'm with friends at a hip bar in Washington DC, losing miserably at a weekly trivia night.

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Museum Lecture Denver San Francisco 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

danah boyd has a post called " On Being Virtual " (be sure to read the comments) As Kevin Gamble on the SLED list notes, what she seems to be saying is that if you look at the rise of social tech amongst young people, it's not about divorcing the physical social structures to live virtually. way to the future?

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Environment Teach Second Life Learning 50

EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

We've scoured the nonprofit-sphere for high-quality conferences and forums, informal trainings, and more that will be taking place all over the world, focusing on essential topics like: Nonprofit management. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Fundraising. Donor relations. Accounting.

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Calendar Conference San Diego DC 177

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. Gladwell argues that real social change occurs when strong, rather than weak-tie networks, organize hierarchically, rather than in a de-centralized network structure.

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Offline Social Media Network Org 116

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” The magic combination was the traditional nonprofit that provided a centralized campaign structure and unified message to diverse stakeholders. “Old power works like a currency. It’s featuring their hero’s journey and letting them tell their story with authenticity.

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People Structure Influence Voice 25

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Because a couple of things, I do a lot of these trainings throughout the year and two thoughts I have before we start. So I give kudos to you for coming to this training today, that’s an important step, and then to actually implement it, right?

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Community Video Slides Survey 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. In most cases simple syntax structure is used. guru-in-training. the work of copyright holders. Directories: [link]. You are a web 2.0

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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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Journal Change Learning Technology 101

Museum 2.0

JULY 24, 2012

When we talk about making museums or performing arts organizations more participatory and dynamic, those changes are often seen as threatening to the traditional arts experience. What if historic arts experiences were actually a lot more participatory? But what if the "traditional" arts experiences is a myth?

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Greece Arts Industry Participatory 51

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Much to my mom's relief, I stayed in school but remained deeply suspicious of the artificial structure of grades and gold stars. There are many parallels between free-choice learning and participatory design. Even the training of museum professionals has gotten more academic with the explosion of university-based graduate programs.

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Museum Alternative Education University 29