Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

"While none of these approaches cost a lot of money, they certainly require staff time to support. Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Performance ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

All the planning was ahead of me to deliver on our mission to increase investment in the social sector, improve partnerships – particularly between local actors and their supporters – and provide support for strong, resilient and impactful nonprofits. Who is defining results anyway?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

This new, experimental training is a hands-on deep dive into the MAH’s model. Come share your projects, challenges, questions, wild successes and epic failures with creative changemakers from around the world. I'm excited to share the MAH's community-first model and to invite you to this in-depth, immersive learning experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy. The mental model mapping can uncover conflict, make it discussable, and enhance effectiveness. Key is a participatory development process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Do you hope to fundraise or garner more support by measuring? Are you required to measure? Who is your audience?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. The idea is that you specify your values, relationships, and assets, and then match those up with potentially fruitful legal structures, financing models, and growth potential.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Bob’s job is to set up and support “wired” schools and school districts. Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

I was involved in early planning for this project, and we were all struck by the enormity of the challenges, our strong desire to make change, and the reality of what might be practical and possible. When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act. Supporting a thousand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. In 2020, the foundation will close its doors. As part of its sunset strategy , the foundation is developing an initiative to support 21st Century Advocacy. The first technique I used to get at individual understanding of the design challenge.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

It’s been a wild and wonderful year—without question, my most challenging and stimulating yet. We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. Just doing it.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play. But at my museum , the support doesn''t stop at our visitors. And my museum, and this new model, as a space for them to do so. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum 2.0

MAY 22, 2012

In 2008, when this group was assembled, they had political backing, financial support, and an energetic approach to their work. By the end of 2011, the House of Representatives withdrew its political and financial support. The early participatory projects are terrific. Few objects surrounded by supporting media.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2012

I led a session with Eric Siegel and Ellen Rosenthal on museum business models and some of the issues we grapple with in managing money. And I talked about some of the challenges of finding the right income and expense models for a museum that operates more like a community center than a traditional cultural institution.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Challenges and issues. Melissa Ulbricht, MobileActive.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

It was underwritten with the generous support of The California Endowment t, Edna McConnell Clark , and Robert Wood Johnson foundations. Of course there are risks and challenges. The topics include: Control and Transparency: How comfortable is the foundation with the participatory nature of Web 2.0 An Exploration of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Why not join the campaign for creativity and innovation by supporting Creative Commons ? Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. Looking at this challenge it is fairly obvious that this is not a problem that any one organization can solve. Creative Commons to the rescue.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

Feminists, Disabled People, Muslims, Police, Goths, Gays) Readers, who check out the Books for 45-minute to 2-hour discussions Librarians, who facilitate the whole process Since 2000, Living Libraries have been produced primarily in Europe at festivals and libraries with support from the Council of Europe youth sector. well, you know.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

It was held in Newcastle in the north of England, and about 70 folks from around the world (but mostly Europe) came to play, learn, make stuff, and help each other work out challenges inherent in trying to make risky ideas happen. Thank you to everyone who came and helped co-create an exciting experimental event in a beautiful city.

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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. My model is the shining star. I draw design lessons from outside models all the time, so "creative thievery" approach feels natural to me. His is the virus. Do you need research? Do you need research?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. Eventually, they had an opening for "Exhibits and Programs Associate"--a low-level jack of all trades position supporting the department.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

In looking at successful examples from institutions around the world, I've come to feel there are three important elements that can support healthy, inspiring relationships between organizations and users. They model impersonal, businesslike relationships between the institution and the people who care about it the most.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / San Diego, CA / Not available. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / San Diego, CA / Not available. All of this real-world experience is grounded in rigorous research and is taught by successful marketers who face your same challenges. Accounting.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

Because the reality is in that room of 65 people, only a handful had participated in one of the high-functioning models of civic discourse presented--calling in to a radio forum, bridging political differences through internet chat. Tags: participatory museum. Museums could be in that business.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

It's the execution of them as good exhibits that's the challenge." People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. Ultimately, what The Tech Virtual community contributed was great ideas for exhibits.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 24, 2012

I'm psyched to spend a few days with friends and colleagues talking about some of the challenges we're grappling with in our work. I'll also be part of two sessions on Tuesday, May 1 - one in the morning about money and business models, and one in the afternoon about prototyping and experimentation. Participatory history programming.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. Frequently, we get stuck on developing participatory projects or events that serve as many people as possible.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 30, 2014

Our work to transform the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History into a participatory and community-centered place has been heavily supported by the James Irvine Foundation. We all have business models. I''ve learned a lot from Irvine Foundation staff and partners directly. Targeted programming is not enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

In 2011, Eric Ries published The Lean Startup , which challenges startup and business founders to build and run their companies in a new way – maximizing customer value and revenue while minimizing wasted effort. 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact by Meg Rulli.

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Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

As I process the many sessions I attended and the new connections that were made, three key trends stick out: interconnectedness, evidence driven hope, and new funding models. We prefer our dignity, but we need support; we need global support.” New funding models: spotlight on participatory grantmaking.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Facebook has a diversified object model--for some people, friend updates are the essential object, for others, it's virtual gifts. The objects can be emailed, embedded, linked, and blogged (if the owner supports it). Are there models out there for sharing physical objects that can't be moved? participatory museum.

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Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. At Open Society Foundations, we are interested in the potential for digital tools to encourage meaningful participation, and as such we supported the establishment of FundAction, a digital fund and platform in Europe.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

In April, I gave 13 UW graduate students a simple challenge: make an exhibit that gets strangers to talk to each other. The whole exhibit modeled the potential for someone to respond to your query, and as it grew, the sense that you would be responded to and validated grew as well. The post-its and pens were right there.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

The COVID-19 health emergency and the ensuing global crises only continue to exacerbate these inequities and drive colossal disruptions in the provision of education across the world — highlighting massive challenges that serve as wake-up calls for the social sector and catalysts for transformational change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. They identify ways the new power will impact funding and change philanthropy : Peer-to-peer giving, lending, and investing models effectively reduce dependence on traditional institutions. Once gained, it is jealously guarded, and the powerful have a substantial store of it to spend.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

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