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. The technique helps you need to evaluate the ideas. To make fun, you can use emojis.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Participants will walk away with a set of guiding principles and tactics to develop media, events and activities that encourage connections and local leadership among your stakeholders to increase your organizational reach and impact. This session will include a presentation, discussion and small group scenarios.

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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. The guide, Vi Mar, was an incredible facilitator. But participatory facilitation can be taught. a "wedding worthy" community hall).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

I also wanted to experiment with translating some facilitation techniques I use for face-to-face meetings (like sticky note facilitation ) to virtual meetings. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. Depending on the number of people in your group, there are different ways to facilitate the report out.

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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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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. We're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

Digital Activism was one of several books I gave to my friends at iHub in Nairobi. Digital Activism Decoded: The New Mechanics of Change , Mary Joyce, Editor. Digital activism is defined by the Meta-Activism Project as “the practice of using digital technology for political and social change.&# 6. ShareThis!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The panel was facilitated by Di Dang, Google Developer Design Advocate. The guidebook focuses on “participatory machine learning,” which actively involves a diversity of stakeholders – technologists, UXers, policymakers, end users, and citizens.” I learned about the People + AI Guidebook.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

It also explains how the McKnight Foundation is connecting its participatory democracy work with climate justice efforts in historically marginalized communities. . Invest in, support, and learn from intermediary organizations, many of which can help you adopt participatory approaches to grantmaking. . Not reinventing the wheel.

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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, The notion of a community is really tricky because every web page is a latent community, waiting to be activated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. The format, the physical space, and network weaving activities were extraordinary. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. The description: The !deation

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. Not only is the content superb, but I also observed and took notes about some excellent participatory facilitation techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour.

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Non Profit Quarterly

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

The theory of change involves both encouraging local economic activity—increasing the economic multiplier effect, in technical parlance—while fostering bonds of community. Then as now, the idea behind BerkShares was to galvanize residents in Pittsfield, Great Barrington, and surrounding areas to purchase more goods and services locally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. Rolling is a way to make the activity inclusive for everyone because people who use wheelchairs roll, not walk.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Visualizing Where Meaning Making Can Happen “Mapping” activities are often the starting point of identifying data collection opportunities.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2014

Plus, my track facilitators were great!) This season, we’re trying to raise $50,000 through the 2015 NTEN Community Challenge to give more people like Leah access to NTEN''s activities and initiatives that advance nonprofit technology. Can you give an example of how you applied what you learned from the 14LCS to your daily work?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Our strategy has relied upon being part of a larger mission, providing meaningful and valuable content, curating information and content for the community, using a legal framework that allows for a participatory culture and lastly, in time, providing a space for the community to assist in the mission by creating content themselves.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. If the participatory instructions were integrated into the standard black labels, visitors would not be as aware of the commonalities across the interactive art pieces.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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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. The driver provides live facilitation. I've written before about the power of live facilitators. The bus stops where you want.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. Can you give an example of the kind of Museum Hack activity that makes this different from other museum tours? We have a specific opening activity to bring the group together.

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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. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Why Use One? New Technology for New Power Movements.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Displaying AAPI visual arts is another engaging activity. Their grassroots activism brings important perspectives. Effective promotion and marketing strategies should focus on engaging people of all backgrounds, not just those who already actively participate in AAPI communities.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Here are four surprising things Oldenburg describes about third places—characteristics I think would be quite difficult for cultural institutions to assume: The primary attraction of a third place is the patrons, not the décor, the hosts, or the activities provided by management. People make fun of each other and laugh loudly.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

Facilitated/Unfacilitated Blend When we started this course, I really pushed the students to think about ways to induce unfacilitated interactions among strangers. I love facilitated experiences, but I worry that they aren't scalable to every visitor. They were roped to very specific locations and activities.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Foundations are scrambling to award grants faster, and nonprofits are pressing to eliminate all non-value-added activity. Grants management systems must facilitate better data sharing, providing all funders and grantees a comprehensive, common dataset for research, analysis, learning, and evaluation.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Include a mix of individual activities (often writing or drawing), partner/small group work, and whole group discussion. Use unorthodox activities to inspire fresh thinking. AFTER THE MEETING 9.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2010

Stage four helps visitors connect with particular people—staff members and other visitors—who share their content and activity interests. The me-to-we design stages become even more important when facilitation is not possible. Ideas participatory museum. What do unfacilitated me-to-we experiences look like?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. And so feel free to actively take notes, write on this piece of paper. Sometimes, you have too many ideas so you need a strong facilitator who can make sure we hear from everyone, but are able to put these ideas through a funnel and find those common threads.

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