Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2013

When you read this post, I’ll be on a plane to the facilitate the opening plenary at the Legal Services TIG Conference on Wednesday, Jan. One idea particularly stuck me with — that it is a lot of about mindset change and that there is difference between perfection and failure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

As a trainer, it is always great to experience someone else facilitating so you can have empathy for participants, get some new ideas or reflect on your trade craft. Help the facilitator understand how people are feeling half-way through the session so real-time tweaks to design can be made. Support a fun icebreake r.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and voting process. The panel picker process has opened – so you can vote for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program until August 27th. What works?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. What is your favorite Traveling Postcards success story?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Our next exhibition is opening in here in two days. This is pretty much what it will look like when we open on Friday. I feel great about both of these goals, and I feel even better about the amazing artists , innovators , and historians we're working with to make it happen. Needless to say, this is a scary thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. The whole idea got started a year ago when James Leventhal who is Deputy Director for the Contemporary Jewish Museum asked me if I would design some trainings for the local arts community.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). Beck talks about this in the context of learning to play music as a young artist. There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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JUNE 21, 2011

The museum was founded in 1981, opened in 1989. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it. Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day. Jason Eppink – Museum of the Moving Image.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

Here are 31 fun, unique fundraising ideas that will support your programs without exhausting your members. Here are a few fundraising ideas to take your fundraising beyond your offering plates. Youth Group Fundraising Ideas. Small Church Fundraising Ideas. Easy Church Fundraising Event Ideas. Enlist in Boot Camp.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

As one African-American artist on a prominent museum board told me, "I felt even more tokenized than if I had been part of some kind of Artists'' Council or African-American Council." C3-ers generated great and useful ideas, but they were functionally an assembly of creative individuals, efficiently giving us input.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 8, 2011

Last month, artist and game designer Nikki Pugh led an utterly charming, often hilarious community residency at the City Gallery in Leicester, UK. I wanted, if possible, to really confront the ideas wrapped up in the exhibition's introductory text. The Inspectors could contribute ideas about what that might happen as a result.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

Claire Rice, from Theatre Bay Area, was live blogging the whole day and captured their opening remarks. Most importantly, I need a good facilitator for each table. I do believe that social media as part of your training can enhance learning, help facilitate social learning. Put Your Learners on the Stage and Hand Them the Mic!

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" Finally, some history museum staff members feel that they should not be dealing with contemporary social issues or that they are unable to facilitate dialogue on contentious topics. I was surprised by her question.

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JUNE 21, 2011

Jason Eppink - Museum of the Moving Image The museum was founded in 1981, opened in 1989. When we first started babycastles, we had no idea there was any kind of community in NY for it. There was a facilitator there that would play it and she played it all day. In 1995, they offered downloadable ROMs to export the games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I had no idea what Twitter was or what it was for, but I had heard of it in the traditional media channels. That stream was fast-running and wide, but I learned as much as I could, asked questions, and connected with people and ideas I would have never known otherwise. After a while, Twitter became my "home away from home."

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

Joe explains some of the planned intentional dialogue events: First, for the opening night dinner, we hired a local dance company that is putting together pieces about visiting museums, punctuated by an actor/dancer asking provocative questions to the group. At each table there will be an envelope with questions inside.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. Ultimately, what The Tech Virtual community contributed was great ideas for exhibits.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. It's easy to say that everyone has a great idea for an exhibit inside them.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

We’re sharing ideas and resources on event fundraising for 2021. . This can feel daunting, so we’ve gathered some creative ideas and real-world examples to help get your juices flowing. Virtual Gala Tips & Ideas: Share special dinner and drink pairing recipes before the event that guests can prepare and enjoy at home.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

We’re sharing ideas and resources on event fundraising. This can feel daunting, so we’ve gathered some creative ideas and real-world examples to help get your juices flowing. SIPA VIRTUAL GALA Virtual Gala Tips & Ideas: Share special dinner and drink pairing recipes before the event that guests can prepare and enjoy at home.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

And while there's lots of good stuff in these sections (including an introduction for me to some wild net artists ), it's the last chunk that interests me most, where Karen explores the question of how and where Internet art should be exhibited. while at the computers. the content is presented programmatically. or other link set.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I’ve had the pleasure working with Diana Scearce , from Monitor Institute, who has been facilitating and weaving this network. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding.

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AUGUST 21, 2021

So I just want to say, by the way, that artists have left a huge legacy around San Francisco during this pandemic. So to get people to seriously consider leaving a legacy, they have to be asked, they have to be shown it’s a good idea. ” So you can open your eyes. Why is that? That’s how it works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

I had the honor facilitating a session on measuring impact with Greg Baldwin and Jay Backstrand from VolunteerMatch discussing how their approach to measuring impact over the past decade. Don’t be afraid of failure because it often helps uncover a better idea or approach.” Its open to all staff, interns, board members.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

aspect of the Forum Gallery by motivating visitors to share their own ideas and interpretations of the artwork with other visitors in physical and virtual formats. The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. Here are some samples: "Awesome idea, super interactive, engaging!" "It

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

We have the City of Boulder naturalists, who are involved in organizing field activities for the community—bringing the community into the open spaces—to facilitate that collection. The idea is to have a migration path between these different spaces—so people who usually take the naturalist hikes get interested in the museum side.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

We experimented with many different forms of visitor participation throughout the building, trying to balance social and individual, text-based and artistic, cerebral and silly. We prototyped the most complicated interactives (the Love Styles quiz and Hearts to Hearts game) with visitors in the months leading up to opening.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2009

Earlier this year, the New Museum and Creative Time commissioned a traveling piece by artist Jeremy Deller called "It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq." Why would I want to sit on a couch and engage in an open-ended, messy conversation with a stranger? I sat down this morning to write a negative review of an exhibit.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2010

. “We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. There are still some job openings , including a Monetization Director to help Jumo “achieve financial self-sustainability through the development of revenue-generating products.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Where traditional social networking is about connecting individuals, Crabgrass is social networking to facilitate network organizing. at 10:31 am Art Social Networking - Network Management Systems Zen and the Art of | Artist Days 11.03.08 What do these tools allow you to do? They allow you to create stand-alone social networks.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

website pages visited, time spent on the page, emails opened, click-throughs, articles, blog or social media posts shared, replies, comments)? Ideas include: “How To” tip worksheets or videos (e.g., “How It’s also a great authority-building idea to seek out venues where you can guest post; this strategy is called reverse guest posting.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

In addition to being an artist, performer and dancer, Alli is also a writer whose most recent piece can be found in the Code Pink anthology, Stop the Next War Now. I have a small one -- just three pages -- which I think will be somewhat useful, but I think there's a lot of really amazing testimony and ideas in that book.

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