Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

– Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work. The facilitation methods are participatory. Lucid Meeting Agenda Templates -Lucid Meeting is a collaboration and meeting platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. Participatory Gatherings. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development. Networked Facilitation. Community Organizing.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The group will working together over the next three years, meeting regularly face-to-face in the different countries as well as work together online. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Overall, the program led to over 100 collaborations and its impact is ongoing. – Sharing Knowledge Wiki -This wiki was created by The ICT-KM group of the CGIAR and other partners to catalog and document processes for nonprofits that want to share knowledge across partners doing development work.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. Connectivity helps facilitate highly distributed groups of people to work on a campaign, project, or share ideas that spread with unprecedented velocity and reach. The Cheerleader: Champions new power values like collaboration, transparency, and participation, but leads in an old power way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. What are the points of pain, strengths, and opportunities?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

They sought diverse perspectives in focus groups and made structural changes to address outdated language, power dynamics, and privacy concerns. Grounded in a participatory approach, the tool will be designed by WFN members and built by WFN’s data and insights team.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The majority of our public programs at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History are created and produced through community collaborations. Every time we collaborate, we learn new ways to improve our process, organization and communication. We realize collaboration differs greatly for each individual and organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The Second C: Collaboration. Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

In 2010, I launched the Networked Nonprofit with a flurry of speaking and training gigs literally around the world, while also designing and facilitating many workshops, peer learning groups, and coaching grantees as Visiting Scholar. I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. Certain people were encouraged to be involved in these groups to ensure that under-represented voices, especially from the southern hemisphere, were heard. ” Paul Connolly.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 13, 2011

The best participatory projects are useful. The participatory activity in question is part of the new Unfinished Business gallery, a room in which the museum engages with a contemporary issue related to the passion and work of Jane Addams and the historic Hull-House activist residents. It is this station that grabbed my attention.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Deeper community relationships through focus groups or community advising committees can further help museums connect with issues relevant to their communities while also hold the museum accountable for their responses.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

But community and labor leaders, housing and other advocacy groups, and environmental justice organizations are fighting back. The Bay Area Power Building Funder Table has brought foundations together to share best practices and take on collaborative projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The creative process of making films is opening up and the outreach efforts to spark social change through documentary media are becoming much more dynamic and collaborative. The system of making and distributing documentary films is changing rapidly.

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 16, 2023

We study and develop scalable, rigorous, and evidence-based solutions using data analysis, human rights, and participatory frameworks. We collaborate with academic scholars in the areas of social science and philosophy of technology and publish foundational research focusing on how ML can be helpful and useful.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 20, 2023

Bridging the AI problem understanding chasm Bridging the AI problem understanding chasm requires two key ingredients: 1) a reference frame for organizing structured societal context knowledge and 2) participatory, non-extractive methods to elicit community expertise about complex problems and represent it as structured knowledge.

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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. It really felt like a group effort!" What did they do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

The most surprising group to create, share and promote original content is middle and high school students. 2 Participatory Chinatown In this game, you're transported to Boston's Chinatown to view the development of new areas through the perspective of the varied citizens that make up their corner of the city.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

So much about becoming friends at work underpins how you ultimately collaborate.”. When Clubhouse was launched in its alpha form last year, it was discussed as being a new form of participatory media “that would change everything,” d’Sa said, and he wanted something like that for his work colleagues.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2013

The Denver Art Museum is no stranger to community collaborations, but we’ve been dipping in our toe a little more deeply when it comes to developing permanent participatory installations. I soon discovered the enormity of that group: there are dozens of guilds in Colorado dedicated to quilting alone. Who are all of these people?

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Is there a lead facilitator who is responsible for the final decision or is the team to work collaboratively making decisions? Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making. Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard. We think Watchitoo.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I'm incredibly proud of all the staff, trustees, volunteers, collaborators, visitors, and members who have made this happen. Our team focused this year on just three things: making the museum more comfortable, hosting new participatory events, and partnering wherever possible. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

Each student signed in to the collaborative Google document to indicate that they were in attendance. Collaborative technology is incredible. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. So I started using collaborative Google documents.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. This isn't even participatory. All of them are cheap, mostly simple, and occasionally, dangerous.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2013

And so we decided to try something really simple: a private staff Facebook group. Within just a week of its creation, the "MAH Stories" private Facebook group had proven itself as a ridiculous success. The group organically and immediately put an end to all-staff emails (except for the highly administrative).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 8, 2013

In the past, I''ve subscribed to the theory that an organization should target many different groups and types of people to serve a constellation of specific audiences across diverse affinities, needs, and interests. It''s still grouping. But ultimately, that''s still targeting. Why fight it?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

Ken is a game designer and writer who develops narrative, collaborative augmented reality experiences about serious issues. GISKIN ANOMALY is a “historical fiction” game I created for Rich Cherry and the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. Lesson: what myths are working for you in your game or participatory project? Mysterious!

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