Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

A few lessons for assessing civic tech from our work include: A Team Approach. My colleague, Anne Whatley, wrote this summary of what you’ll find when you dig into these two stellar and highly practical reports and resource lists. Now we need to find out not only what works, but what works best over time.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. I wonder what lessons or techniques can be learned from her practice that can be applied with the next generation of tools? How much has our environment, culture, or information overload changed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Why Use One? Concept 5: New Power / Old Power Hybrid.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. And with that in mind, the biggest lesson I took away from the entire conference was that organizations shouldn't be afraid to fail.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. And with that in mind, the biggest lesson I took away from the entire conference was that organizations shouldn't be afraid to fail.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. 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. How and why did Object Stories come to be?

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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 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 key lessons we discussed were: providing crystal-clear criteria and constraints to help participants focus their work.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Designed for advancement professionals charged with starting or growing a student philanthropy program.Learn techniques to create a tradition of gratitude and support for the institution among students. Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. Fundraising. Create Good 2016.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

Here are five key lessons I''ve learned about making this kind of event work. I first learned about this technique from Sam Kaner''s excellent book, Facilitator''s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. Sleep on it. MuseumCamp uses an "inefficient" format where there are two full days and two half days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The ideas and techniques in Lean Start Up movement also work for nonprofits and what some are calling “ Lean Impact.” That’s where Lean Impact comes in: highlighting the organizations using Lean for social good, and to share those examples and lessons with other social good organizations.

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2010

When an institution becomes wholly participatory, those distinctions often erode. In all cases, the artists put a stake in the ground and said, "We think we can improve our artistic practice and our public-facing performances through participatory techniques." Projects participatory museum.

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