Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I used my holiday break as an opportunity for a brief digital detox and time for family, travel and fun. These help guide my professional learning and improvement and maintaining good habits. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2018! I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Our track was one of three tracks for participants to dive deep into a topic and learn from peers through dialogue. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. As someone who has been in the nonprofit field 35 years, I can sum up my experience as: ”Remember, it’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. This is more a mind shift than anything else.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

Do you dream of a summer filled with learning, community engagement, and sea lions? You can learn a lot more about that experience and how to apply here. INTERNSHIPS If you want to join us in Santa Cruz for more professional learning, consider an internship at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. Community Programs.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. A few things I learned/observed/was impressed by: A spirit of inclusion, generosity, and welcome permeated the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

For the past few months, I’ve been facilitating a Nonprofit Emerging Leaders online peer learning project with Third Plateau Impact Strategies. One area we cover is social awareness, the ability to recognize and understand the moods of other individuals and teams that we collaborate with professionally. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? In some ways, a design lab can be thought of as “participatory research and testing.”. Why Use One? Design thinking is a set of principles that includes—empathy with users, a discipline of prototyping, and tolerance for failure.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? For this reason, I see history museums as best-suited for participatory projects that involve story-sharing and crowdsourced collecting (e.g.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

Jane McGonigal and the folks from IFTF have released a new future-casting game/collaborative experience called Signtific Lab. It's fun, I learn something, I'm challenged to contribute something meaningful, and I connect with other users. In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

Here are ten things I've learned about making these kinds of community input meetings successful. Bridged groups are useful if you want people to collaborate on a more inclusive vision of the future. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Designing a new program.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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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. It's not fun for some people. I often say that, "Collaboration is queen." People are saying, "We're all going to collaborate!

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

Now that the dust has cleared and the kids are banging on the exhibits (and showing us what we have to change next), I have the time to step back and share some of the lessons learned from this experience. Give away the fun (and easy) part. However, the contest also prevented us from legitimately fostering collaboration.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. Get ready to learn from some of the best analytics minds out there. Learn how leading companies are getting the most from their data. General / @southwestfdns. 38th Annual Nonprofit Conference.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 12, 2009

On Sunday April 5, I’ll be conducting a collaborative experiment with 15 intrepid University of Washington graduate students, and I’d like to invite you to join in from your own hometown. There are three reasons you might value this activity: It will be fun and kind of unusual. Spring is here and it’s time to talk to strangers.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2009

These systems use forms of collaborative filtering to analyze what you've liked and find things that might be similar based on both expert and user data. The presumption on the part of museums is that rating things is a fun activity onto itself and that's why people use them on Netflix and other sites. They have direct personal impact.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Interest in the collaborative writing process. Check out the other parts here. What did they do? Why did they do it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. So, now is the fun part. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Collaboration on student projects or other ways.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

We’re going to have some fun today. We’re going to have some fun over the next hour or so. There’s all kinds of videos and stuff that you can interact with there if you want to learn more about us. Steven: It’s always a fun transition. Participation is the path to learning. Oh, my, gosh.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Not only does the game turn "doing good" into a fun experience, it's also creating a legion of content creators who are comfortable being themselves online. # As you progress through the challenges, you gain more constituents that will help you with tasks, and learn valuable skills that can be used in real life.

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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. It is a collaborative way of working. Annie talked about how networks focus on collaboration and action, rather than institution building.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

In a straightforward way, Marilyn explains how her team developed a participatory project to improve engagement in a gallery with an awkward entry. Offer something fun and appealing to do that required entering the exhibition? Our colleagues in the Museum of Natural History were eager collaborators. SOLUTION: POST-IT NOTES?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I hope to share some simple and fun ways to create "shoulder-to-shoulder" instructional media for the panel on Screencasting at NTC I'm doing. How do you create good instructional media in a reasonable amount of time and do a good enough job that helps people learn something by viewing it? That's enough meta for now.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 3, 2007

At first, we’d planned for these to vary from fun activities (i.e. But after a couple weekends, we learned, strangely enough, that the manual labor activities were far more successful than fun ones. Almost every part of each weekend, from the ceremonies (open guided discussion) to the meals (homemade) was participatory.

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