Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

We are asked to do it in controlled environments. Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others. Tags: movement building. Yes, that difficult word, BUT.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2007

they are required to leave the building when they depart the car. It's a controlled environment--and while neither individual is in control, the partially limiting barrier makes it feel okay to act atypically. Ideas participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences visitors. But I'm not so sure of this.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Facilitators have many superpowers, and like superheroes, many of those powers may be invisible to others.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

Renee Rubin Ross will provide concrete steps organizational leaders can take to plan strategically, building investment, ownership and fundraising. Who are we in the context of our community and the environment? But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning. Who are we?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

We did not ask people to design whole exhibits and hand over CAD drawings so we could build them. Our job was to provide a structured environment in which to develop ideas and the expertise to build the best of them. Trust is essential, especially in a changing environment. Give away the fun (and easy) part.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

With a system to help you facilitate application reviews , you can use your grants management software to schedule reminders for when reviews are ready to move to the next stage. Grantmakers have reporting needs that can be complex to build in a spreadsheet, such as deferred payments and managing overlapping grant cycles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

On Friday, I leave for Beirut for co-lead a series of Train the Trainers workshops as part of the E-Mediat Project , a capacity building project for NGOs to learn social media skills. A Networked organization is more than just the electronic infrastructure and tools that facilitate communication. Building Relationships.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I wish I could see you all because so much of what we do in this work is building community. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. So as leaders, our job is to help build upon that momentum but also create that infrastructure. . Here we go. Julie: All right. How do we do this well?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. You can think of it as having 24/7 access to another users filing cabinet, but each user's collection of bookmarks helps to build an rich knowledge network. library, and nonprofit environments is mainly due to the benefits offered. Del.icio.us

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Their success, I believe, is due to the fact that in most cases, participants are active agents on missions, not just visitors spending a couple hours building a lie detector. By couching the experience within a comfortable environment. Tags: programs participatory museum comfort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.”

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Program staff have less time to commit to partnership, capacity building, and mutual accountability. 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

JUNE 29, 2010

We need to set up spaces in which doing the right thing--welcoming all kinds of people--is easy, facilitated and enforced. When everybody knows what your institution is for (collecting and interpreting the past of your region, for instance) then we have common ground on which to build social relationships.

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