Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. My favorite piece of advice is: “Occupy Yourself” What if there were an Occupy-style movement directed at you? Once gained, it is jealously guarded, and the powerful have a substantial store of it to spend. It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven. It is made by many.

Collaboration

Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2014

We’ll be exhibiting at the Science Fair, running a nonprofit idea generator for our Caravan Studios project, and hosting an open lounge where you can come by for tech support, advice on Office 365, and to hear some of our partners talk about their exciting new projects for the sector. Come By Our Science Fair Booth. – 3 p.m.

NTC

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

I’m often asked for practical advice on how to move past the fear. So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 In short, deconstruct it and face it head on.

Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Although this was before Twitter, the advice about what makes an effective tagging community still resonates and are applicable to effective Twitter hashtags. And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy. It still continues to be used on Twitter as well as other places.

Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

Advice about using the FLIP camera: The Flip Spotlight site has a resource section with lots of tips for using the camera. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. Flip Video Camera : These are easy to use, inexpensive cameras with a built-USB port. For example, storytelling.

Camera

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. If you already know the wheel chair users in the meeting group, ask them for advice. This includes integrating moving around into small groups or share pairs as well as standing & stretching.

Detroit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences.

Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2015

Li has worked extensively with leadership level executives in this digital transformation and the book distill hers advice to help them develop digital skills and strategies. Her advice boils down to three steps: listen, share, and engage. There is also a science part of sharing – and that is how to share.

Digital

Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. I also believe that small and mid-sized museums are the leaders when it comes to innovation, particularly around participatory engagement. We'll need advice. We'll need interns.

Museum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Start by focusing your assessment on the outcomes that your app or platform is most directly designed to produce (such as increased trust between neighbors or resident contributions to a specific local decision-making process) rather than on very broad overarching goals like “strengthening participatory democracy.”

Metrics

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. And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience. Peer Self-Assessment and Peer Coaching Exercises.

Reflection

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2010

You get the sense reading the question that someone needs your advice, and if you've figured something out that works for you and your child, you want to share. This is a participatory comment board in a true sense. In some cases, it might be the institution or staff. They want to do a good job of it; it's part of the reason they came.

Museum

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

I first learned about this technique from Sam Kaner''s excellent book, Facilitator''s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making. Sometimes, getting secondary advice outside the team dynamic can be helpful. To me, this is analogous to the benefits of having multiple staff members engaged with community partners on participatory projects.

Facilitation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

There is some good basic common sense advice about how to move forward with adopting Web 2.0 The topics include: Control and Transparency: How comfortable is the foundation with the participatory nature of Web 2.0 I'm still wading my way through it. communications?

Social Media

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

If you are interested in this topic, you might also like this post about the Advice exhibition which tested a similar principle. I thought it was a perfect chance to put one of the ideas in Nina Simon’s book The Participatory Museum to the test. Projects guestpost Book: The Participatory Museum.

Museum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

What advice would you offer to nonprofits who want to use tagging? " Here's my interview with her: I am curious as to whether or not you work for a nonprofit organization? Robert Newman: On the History of Oil (Robert if you are listening - I want to adopt ten babies to help run our idyllic post apocalyptic farmstead. Why do you tag?

Feeds

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

5: Don’t interrupt or jump into giving advice. These techniques are described in more detail in “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. What is your best tip or advice for improving your ability to truly listen to people at work? 2: Be present, practice mindful listening to the other person.

Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

" Later, her work brought her to Mali, where she advised on participatory methods. What advice would you give to someone about starting a blog? " She has worked in Africa as a trainer and later as an organisational advisor. She notes, "I started in Kenya working with a water users association, living in a thatched hut!"

Develop

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

I'm still close with some of the very first people to read the blog--strangers whose comments, encouragement, and advice have guided me for more than a decade. I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. But within a year, the dynamic started to shift. Museum 2.0

Museum

Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2016

(Thanks to Leadership Public Schools , IDEX (soon to be Thousand Currents ), and New Resource Bank for sharing your advice!). However, its staffers also valued a participatory approach and wanted to be sure include their field partners, staff, board, and more. Set Roles and Expectations.

Design

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. The worst way to disrespect participants is to ignore the advice, experience, and expertise that you asked them to provide. There are a million ways to run a community meeting--different depending on what you are trying to achieve.

Community

Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. That's why I required my museum studies students to carefully document their Advice exhibition --so that the learning from that unusual project wouldn't be lost and could be applied in other places.

Ideas

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. If you were revising an existing strategic plan rather than creating a new one, what’s different about this advice, if anything, Julie? Good advice to always go back to those things, right? How do we do this well? Steven: I love it. Steven: Yeah.

Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Finally, here's a screencast on strategic blog commenting, although a lot of the advice is mostly for those who already have a blog, much can be learned. Point out each area of disagreement and why in a brief, non-rantish, professional manner. NEVER: Be sarcastic, rant prolifically, curse, or personally attack a person. Discover Exercise.

Remix

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

No one is going to volunteer advice to the museum if they don't think it will be used. Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing participatory museum. These people may be interested in starting a community with minimal museum support as long as they understand that someone is listening (and will act on that listening reasonably).

Museum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

I shifted a lot of my content and advice to focus on creating a life-work balance when you work remotely and how to create a more connected virtual team as well as digital wellness. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment.

Nonprofit

The Next Web

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

This means you’re probably not going to have as good a response with participatory content on LinkedIn, like contests or polls, as you might on Facebook or Twitter. Rethink it: If you’re struggling to make your strategy work, or you just want some advice, you don’t have to go it alone.

Social Media

The Verge

JUNE 8, 2021

The third one’s advice. Of course, advice on how to run your startup. So the meeting has become more participatory. So to get a half hour of advice, they probably had to invest about two hours. In the remote program, half an hour of advice takes half an hour. The second one’s cash. It’s a big deal, the cash.

Generation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

In addition, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has an excellent round up of advice on engaging audiences - which is necessary if you want to dip your toes into participatory media. Harry's advice: Put a dog on the card! For some big picture ideas on user generated content , see this resource.

Content

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. What advice do you have for journalists right now? I was always thinking, how could a freelancer pitch the world?

Interview

Mashable Tech

APRIL 30, 2025

introduced a separate model for teens and added new features, like additional disclaimers that companions are not humans and can't be relied on for advice. Guardrails for teens In December, Character.AI The platform launched parental controls in March. A spokesperson for Character.AI

Teen