Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

2 Because whats being reflected in that mirror doesnt look anything like us. Butand heres the first qualification these AI tools that are built to generate reflections of human intelligence dont reflect all of us. And a mirror can only reflect the light that reaches it. But what they do is very much like a mirror.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" welcoming people with more diverse perspectives and backgrounds to participate meaningfully).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? I showed up at the IMA expecting innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

He writes a blog called " Read It To Me " that summarizes business books and also hosts Webinars with authors. This weekend I participated in a Webinar about the book The Whuffie Factor along with author Tara Hunt where we discussed how the ideas apply to nonprofits. So I said I'd kick in my copy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I call it my “ To Do, To Done, Don’t Do, Reflection List.” ” I use it for planning and goal setting as well as to reflect along the way. My colleague, Wendy Harman , was also inspired by Chris Brogan’s technique, but she takes it deeper and includes daily reflection questions.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. When I decided to write a book about visitor participation in cultural institutions, I knew I'd do it in a way that reflected the values behind the book itself--transparency, inclusion, and meaningful community participation. Check out the other parts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

But during the session on Learning in Public yesterday, with Beth Kanter, Co-Author of Networked Nonprofit, Jared Raynor from the TCC Group and Kathy Reich, from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I was reminded that all measurement needs to start with the most fundamental question – why measure?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2019

Dear friends, This is my last post as the author of Museum 2.0. I spent 2007-2011 traveling the world, doing participatory projects and consulting gigs, and writing my first book. You gave me support as I struggled to lead a museum through a participatory rebirth. Woman reading a book on a beached rowboat, 1925. Museum 2.0

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans. Well, does it reflect our mission?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Use reflective listening skills and clear communication to adjust. Emerging nonprofit leaders who engage in reflective listening are more likely to succeed. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”. Reflective Listening Techniques. Be aware of what they say, how they say it and body language.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

This post was originally published on The Ross Collective ; it is being shared here with the author’s permission. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. What has been your biggest technology disaster this year? Except when it isn’t!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Guided by an understanding that good listening is a first step towards authentic and meaningful participatory grantmaking, in 2019 CRUS began an intentional process to review its strategy and approach to grantmaking. About the Authors. Learn more about grantmaking organizations and how they are driving the climate response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Since the theme this year was “Change Making,” I taught a workshop on self-care for change makers based on my forthcoming book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , co-authored with Aliza Sherman. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post. Diane Ragsdale : You Can't Lead if No One is Paying Attention to You Ragsdale, researcher and author of the terrific Jumper blog , suggests that most arts organizations are not "leading" communities but disregarding and demeaning them.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. The workshops topics included.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences. They kept the interface simple.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. Being able to complement field data with satellite imagery further helps local communities make their case to authorities. This is also a reflection of the organization's diverse staff members, who can bridge lots of disciplines and groups.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2009

The Odditoreum is a temporary gallery for the summer school holiday in which the Powerhouse is displaying eighteen very odd objects alongside fanciful (and fictitious) labels written by children's book author Shaun Tan, schoolchildren, and visitors. The participatory element employs an accessible speculative question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Professional development - reflect and learn about your work.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 2, 2008

They demonstrate that the blog is a more participatory vehicle than other kinds of media. I may talk about them with friends or pass them on, but only once in a blue moon will I write a letter "to the editor" to share my thoughts back to the author. They prove that the conversation is two-way. it gets me excited. It's awesome.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

The author, Margaret Kadoyama, argues that for programs to move into the (positive) realm of engaging, personally meaningful dialogue, we as facilitators have to be patient and really respond to the questions or comments offered. Tags: programs participatory museum comfort. When have you seen it work, and when have you seen it fail?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2008

Most free social networks include advertising that may not reflect museum mission. In this way, Tree of Promise takes a quick participatory in-museum experience—writing down a promise—and provides a supportive platform on which users can cultivate and substantiate that action. freedom from advertising. exclusivity.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

The resulting (real) exhibits are high-quality experiences that reflect a level of creativity that could not have resulted from our scant in-house exhibit development staff. We engaged with hundreds of creative folks around the world who developed about 50 virtual exhibits, of which seven were created in real life.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 29, 2015

In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. These terms come from Robert Putnam, Harvard researcher and author of Bowling Alone. Our audience’s income diversity matches that of the County.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

These rituals also help me set-up systems for consistent reflection and positive habit change throughout the new year. My journal is not only an annual planning and goal-setting tool but also supports daily reflection as the year progresses. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. When I read the New York Times online, each article's author's name is hotlinked and there is an easy and direct way to contact him/her. Be personal.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2014

One of his students reflected: Using the interactive iPad book to test my own reliability in crime scenes and investigations was really powerful. Jim is the author and he is so brilliant and addresses the subject with such clarity and authority that we had a lot of trust in his sense of the structure of the book.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

I’d love to see someone fully imagine an institution that would be that third place, and then see how we could adjust museums and libraries to reflect those (or not). Retraining staff to be translators and hosts instead of experts and authorities is both technologically and philosophically tricky (and necessary).

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