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. You use this to follow a brainstorming activity which may yield an abundance of new ideas. As a group we spend time clustering similar ideas before reviewing them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection to one another.

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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. With one exception, no single activity cost more than $30 to produce/maintain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. Participatory Gatherings. Small Group Design. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development. Any many more.

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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. When activities were not facilitated, people were often too timid to interact.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

She posted a pointer on the NTEN Nonprofit Flickr Affinity Group list today. 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. She points out why she likes the campaign: 1 ??? (not

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

The new building was designed to meet neighborhood needs--not just in the content covered, but in the inclusion of spaces made for particular kinds of activities sought by locals (i.e. She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. The exhibits are exciting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

As a long-time trainer, professor, and teacher, I feel strongly that interactive learning activities – going beyond the death by Powerpoint Lecture – is the key to retention and application for participants. Your room set up can support your instructional activities that engage participants or get in the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work. The facilitation methods are participatory. This section includes templates for meeting processes.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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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. When you have four facilitators, you want to make sure that you choreograph each activity. The scribe should only interact with the lead facilitator, not the group. Orienting the Group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals are routine and intentional activities that carry meaning. I’ve taken up many new self-care activities during 2020 to cope with the pandemic stress. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment. I use my self-care plan to formalize my intention to avoid work burnout.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The best participatory projects are useful. Rather than just doing an activity, visitors should be able to contribute in a way that provides a valuable outcome for the institution and the wider museum audience. Yes, this activity is political. Finding legitimate ways for visitors to be of use is easier said than done.

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Candid

AUGUST 20, 2024

This long-term commitment allows groups to gain the financial stability, permanent infrastructure, peace of mind, and strategic power they need to generate the “civic return” on investment. The general operating support set a base of stability from which the organization could launch new activities and initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

The format, the physical space, and network weaving activities were extraordinary. This workshop was an experiment in the interactive lecture and lots of small groups. Giving the audience a chance to interact and discuss content in full groups, share pairs, and small groups allowed for some great stories to emerge from the group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR and other partners to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work. The facilitation methods are participatory. This section includes templates for meeting processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

One notable aspect of the success of Gasland, which recently won the Emmy Award for documentary film, is the way director Josh Fox worked with grant makers at the Fledgling Fund to galvanize a movement that greatly amplified the efforts of traditional environmental groups.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But community and labor leaders, housing and other advocacy groups, and environmental justice organizations are fighting back. With a better understanding of who holds power and why that dynamic needs to change, these funders have supported organizations, coalitions, and activities that help make those shifts happen.

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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. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes peer learning.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Assess and Respond to Community Assets and Needs If you want to activate community engagement in your programs, you first need to work together with your communities to determine their diverse needs, assets and interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. It can contribute to exchanges and interactions that are at the heart of nonprofit network building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. Shirky suggests that the most profound use of social media will come from groups trying new things.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Several said things like, "I was curious to see how this kind of participatory, collaborative approach would work in practice."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. This includes integrating moving around into small groups or share pairs as well as standing & stretching. The “S” stands for slowest pace sets the pace for the group – it isn’t a race.

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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 went to the genealogy group, and a whole bunch of them submitted.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. Check out the other parts here. The challenge was to figure out how to do it and end up with a high-quality book.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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FEBRUARY 24, 2010

took over the world, people were part of smaller online participatory communities called listservs. The biggest barriers groups face is how to structure listservs. Before Web 2.0 Remember them? Should they be moderated? How should people frame their topic for discussion when they post to the listserv? By subject line categories?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

This simple participatory project invites visitors to contribute their own small objects in little alcoves in our bathrooms. We have seven participatory elements in our current exhibitions on three floors, ranging from voting to talkback walls to an in-depth "make a memory jar" craft activity.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? If your activity is compelling because it involves gimmicky new technology, it's not a good activity.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

They host public co-making events, invite groups to book workshops directly, engage on twitter and tumblr , and encourage drop-in participation. It''s clear from the diversity of activities, the professionalism of the scaffolding, and the forms of access that they are serious about inviting meaningful participation in the Re:Make project.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

We just started to try to live up to that vision, partnership by partnership, activity by activity. It also feels amazing to see some of my theories validated in this way--that giving people the opportunity to actively participate does really transform the way they see the institution and themselves. It feels pretty amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

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 ). Which profiles are you most active on? How long do you need to archive the data?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. Different activities need different levels of materials to appear "open for business." It's just fun.

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