Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,&# a story telling tool. (And, had to laugh at the geeky recursiveness of creating a story out of qualitative data from Twitter and other sources – and then adding it to my curated nonprofit measurement collection on scoop.it).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. Multi-stakeholder projects with many organizations, people, and roles are complex.

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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. Mindful Listening: Master the Basics of Focused Conversation. Conversations with other people at work are a basic part of what we do at work everyday. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Blogs, wikis, social network platforms, forums, chats: aka user generated content, conversations, communities. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Emergent, peer to peer conversations and sharing of knowledge. —– Follow #smfs on search.twitter.com for the real conversation from this session!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2014

We’ll be exhibiting at the Science Fair, running a nonprofit idea generator for our Caravan Studios project, and hosting an open lounge where you can come by for tech support, advice on Office 365, and to hear some of our partners talk about their exciting new projects for the sector. Come By Our Science Fair Booth. on March 12.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space. Roger Hart of Cornell ( 1992 paper ).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. What started as a fun personal project for her will hopefully become part of our permanent history gallery--a space we are trying to make more interactive over the coming years. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. Here’s what I learned about the facilitating design thinking processes: What Is A Design Lab? Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

Netsquared is new project in its embryonic stages from Compumentor, the folks who have brought excellent technology resources to the nonprofit field. is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. What is it?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

posts called "Unusual Projects and Influences." Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. The driver provides live facilitation. There's a tag applied to many Museum 2.0

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. (I Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas.

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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, Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. The Third C: Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. He offered to write a guest post sharing more about how their social publishing strategy.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Movement, making, and imaginative projects are all good for shaking new ideas loose. Close with a rallying activity, ideally one that invites people to continue conversations with each other. AFTER THE MEETING 9.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. The Festival is one moment in a decade-long project to redesign Market Street. The projects were messy, unfinished--true prototypes of future possibilities. A fitness trail for urban life. A soundtrack for the street.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Tweet conversations about you. Networks, groups, applications, conversations, meet-ups, T-shirts, donations, volunteer events and political actions receive community wide support and in many cases are created by the community itself. If we are successful, we’re being talked about, rather than talking.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. It’s made the museum experiences I facilitate more enjoyable, longer-lasting, and much more meaningful. comfort interactives participatory museum programs Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

In 2005, at the Les Blogs conference in Paris, there was a flap about the backchannel because the conversation crossed a line. . At this conference in 2005, the backchannel was projected on the screen behind the speaker.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

Most Workshops also run a wide range of additional programs - supplemental school day programs, afterschool programs, mobile units that go to housing projects. Given a wide variety of stuff, they will find something that they are excited about and will take on projects. We assume the motivation is there. The interest is there.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

They edit the conversations into radio shows, which are then made available as a podcast (you can listen to episode featuring me, #89: Museum Secrets, here ). The conversations are often long--20 minutes or more--and Mercedes and Zachary only get to the question at the end of a meandering conversation with the guest.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. well, you know.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

The visitors on the bench face a large projection screen. Every issue cycle was the same: visitors would watch the video in silence, and then as soon as the voting opened, a murmur of conversation would run through the room. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum interactives. The setup is always the same.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

But that business model requires experienced staff who know how to empower people, facilitate meaningful participation, respond to community issues and interests, and ignite learning. There are many curator and museum director voices in the article, but not a single quote from a visitor who engaged in one of these community projects.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

And so I, you know, want to hear from you because I know that whatever is on your mind, you’re able to add to the conversation. But there are some benefits, some real clear benefits of inclusive participatory strategic planning. Everything about my approach is about the wisdom in the room. Where are we not putting our energy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. Social Interaction - People can have conversations and create content together. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Let's say I want to encourage some conversations about a healthy diet.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

I was the project manager/curator for the exhibition, leading both the Second Life-based community exhibit design process and the real world translation of virtual exhibits. That's ok for a community project, but very frustrating (and for some, blatantly dishonest) in a contest. Level the playing field or tip it in their favor.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. I hope to pair both vision and mission and goals with concrete tools for you to be able to help manage whatever project that you are overseeing or strategic planning process that you were overseeing. We really need strong project managers.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Not all the art was good, but it all spurred conversation. What People Talked About The conversations ranged in topic, but we most frequently heard people talk about: Preferences. This focus on process also bore out in lots of the conversations I had and overheard with artists. People readily exclaimed "I like this one!"

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2013

I was sought out and could initiate conversations. Over the years, I''ve learned to put on an imaginary magic vest when I go to museums, and I''ve gotten more comfortable starting conversations without it. Of course, there''s no single social object that projects a universal message of openness and willingness to engage.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Yvonne Atkinson, the Early Childhood Specialist who runs the Nursery discussion board, shared with me a few favorite questions from the many years she's been running the board: "What was the best conversation you've ever had with your child?" "How This is a participatory comment board in a true sense. What's the next step?

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The total buying power of this community is projected to be more than $790 billion and the surveys indicate that the LGBT community is especially likely to consider supporting charitable organizations for which they are committed with a planned gift. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Washington, DC / Not available.

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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. The Story of Electronics is part of a series of short films created and released by the Story of Stuff project since 2007. It is about sharing.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

You can explore the project wiki where we coordinated the exhibit, including the project overview , our six-week plan to get it all done, and individual sections for development of concept , content , interaction , graphics , marketing , fabrication , installation , and evaluation.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I was sought out and could initiate conversations. Over the years, I've learned to put on an imaginary magic vest when I go to museums, and I've gotten more comfortable starting conversations without it. Of course, there's no single social object that projects a universal message of openness and willingness to engage.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. And then on April 29, the conversation really got rolling. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. On March 22, they released the wiki.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

Pop Up” has become an international buzz term to describe ephemeral, experimental projects--from pop up restaurants to pop up boutiques--but a “Pop Up Museum” is still somewhat mystifying. Our primary goal for pop up museums is to bring people together in conversation through stories, art, history, and objects.

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