Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Skeptical because Candid is a nonprofit that describes its work ethic and culture as similar to that of the tech sector, which could mean either mission-driven with an innovative mindset, or appropriating the rhetoric of social movements while engaging in extractive practices.

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Data Demographics Participatory Aggregator 98

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

With this clarity of purpose, the nonprofit can focus on its culture. This is where participatory practice comes in to play. Once we have built a culture that is connected and engaged, nonprofit leadership is primed to use the insights of this culture to build a strategic plan that everyone is invested in.

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Nonprofit Participatory Leadership Culture 98

Amy Sample Ward

JULY 28, 2010

Amplified Leicester is a city-wide experiment designed to grow the innovation capacity of Leicester by networking key connectors across the city’s disparate and diverse communities in an incentivised participatory project enabled by social media. And (don’t forget this bit) if you don’t trust the community.

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Community Impact Social Phoenix 123

Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Participatory Arts Learning Music 52

Candid

JULY 28, 2022

Grounding our work in culture and values : Almost every session I attended brought attendees back to who we are and what values we hold. In a world where we’re always quick to “get down to business,” I appreciated the space to reflect on my own cultures and values and how they have influenced my professional journey.

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Reflection Philanthropy Participatory Conference 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Model Active Activism Activities 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Some Connection Points: Learning.

Network 95

Network Build Social Media Participatory 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

I’ve always dreamed of accessing a diverse network of people who do nonprofit capacity across different disciplines or what Nancy White has described as “ learning from adjacent practices.” Dearth of resources/cultural practices around curriculum sharing. Lack of platforms through which to network laterally.

Global 93

Global Network Change Social 93

Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2010

The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Now, after long last, the book is here!

Participatory 30

Participatory Museum Vietnam Arts 30

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2011

We do this not only to stay in the spirit of the participatory engagement styles that are now emerging, but also because the findings represent only the present moment in a story that is far from concluding. Nothing is settled about how even the most relevant and impactful advocacy organizations engage constituencies or attracts resources.

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Model Support Social Media Nonprofit 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

I’m often asked for practical advice on how to move past the fear. So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 Tags: Networked Nonprofit Organizational Culture. Opening up [.].

Social Media 100

Social Media Network Media Social 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Write A FutureMe Email: I use a site called “ FutureMe ” to write an email to myself post-dated a year from now, a practice I’ve been doing for a few years now. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment. I’ve shared My Three Themes below.

Nonprofit 148

Nonprofit Journal Facilitation Reflection 148

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

I meet them doing research in the archives, collaborating on cultural festivals, and contributing stories to exhibitions. The whole process of being interviewed for the story made me question the stories we tell and words we use to describe participatory work. What is the metaphor for participatory arts? Not a crowd. The circus?

Journal 54

Journal Community Museum Participatory 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

These projects were done nearly ten years ago, but they presage what the social web, participatory media. I wonder what lessons or techniques can be learned from her practice that can be applied with the next generation of tools? How much has our environment, culture, or information overload changed?

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Flickr Professional Participatory New York 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The first of these reasons is practical.

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Participatory Teen Experiment Museum 24

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. The uniqueness of the Impact Lab’s goals is its multidisciplinary approach and the diversity of experience, including both applied and academic research.

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Research Impact Google Analysis 111

sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. However, when we initiate a more practical conversation, we can determine which questions will be most useful. Successful datamaking helps us put equity and dialectics into practice.

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Data Knowledge Philanthropy Grant 115

Google Research AI blog

JULY 20, 2023

Technical Program Manager, Head of Societal Context Understanding Tools and Solutions (SCOUTS), Google Research AI-related products and technologies are constructed and deployed in a societal context : that is, a dynamic and complex collection of social, cultural, historical, political and economic circumstances. Posted by Donald Martin, Jr.,

Knowledge 81

Knowledge Application Articulate Structure 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” 2: Mobile Usage. #3: 3: Social Networking.

Social Media 117

Social Media Digital Media Mobile 117

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. The purpose of my thesis was two-fold: To research and analyze community and civic engagement practices, methods, theories and examples in other museum programs. I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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Museum Program Community Participatory 49

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

We need translators within each cultural context. Our museum in Santa Cruz has been slammed by those who believe participatory experiences have gone too far. We always knew that the inclusion of participatory and community-centered practices in arts institutions was controversial. But we do have ''and.''

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Museum Participatory Arts History 53

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. Well Being is about self, others, and organizational culture.

Professional 0

Professional Nonprofit Journal Reflection 0

Museum 2.0

APRIL 4, 2012

I was reminded of this "care, then act" framework when I saw a recent story about a student's experience at a powerful issue-driven exhibition at the Skirball Cultural Center, Half the Sky. When I visited the exhibition in November, I saw many participatory opportunities for visitors to act. to show s/he cares.

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Story Museum Participatory Project 47

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Proposals involve sculpture, performance, participatory-projects, videos, and installation that use and respond to the museum’s collection. In this post, I hope to bring out some of the complexities of the idea of restoration as it occurs within an experimental museum supporting both a collection and the practices of emerging artists.

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Museum Artist Participatory Proposal 49

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. I''m curious to know: has The Participatory Museum played a role in your work? Humans empower each other.

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Participatory Museum Empowerment Facilitation 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. open to anyone (minimize cultural bias). questions that induce grappling.

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Technique Question Design Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

APRIL 14, 2011

The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. I also believe that small and mid-sized museums are the leaders when it comes to innovation, particularly around participatory engagement. I knew we were moving somewhere nice.

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Museum History Arts Consultant 55

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 15, 2014

When basketball players are offering more cogent commentary on racial issues than cultural institutions, you know we have a cultural relevance problem. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. Colleges are addressing greater cultural and racial understanding in various courses. Things must change.

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Museum Blogger Cleveland Culture 52

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. It's not unusual for me and our public programming staff members to have several short interactions every week with newcomers who walk in the door with idiosyncratic visions for cultural engagement.

Open 41

Open Museum Platform Participatory 41

Museum 2.0

APRIL 26, 2018

She says that the museum made changes in hiring and board recruitment practices, and invited the community in to help reshape the facility into a place that reflected and represented its people and their interests. I'm also always interested in how the national media portrays changes in the cultural sector.

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Audience Washington Museum Intergenerational 49

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. But this report was developed based on existing organizations and practices, looking for common characteristics as opposed to new directions.

Report 52

Report Memphis Museum Arts 52

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 20, 2007

A preliminary health survey showed that by far the most serious problem confronting the village is malaria, and that is the area where work will begin.

Mali 40

Mali Participatory Survey Library 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2015

As trainers, Andrea and I both know the value of “modeling the model,” so we wanted to use and model best practices for designing effective meetings on their preferred platforms. Designing A Participatory Hook for a Virtual Meeting. How have you changed your organization’s meeting culture to be better?

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Facilitation Virtual Arts Participatory 50

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Earlier this fall, I read this headline: "Stanford study: Participation in a cultural activity may reduce prejudice." When the music video was focused on Mexican culture, the researchers found that the white and Asian participants demonstrated a decrease in prejudice against Latinos, both immediately after the activity and six months later.

Measure 47

Measure Arts People Social 47

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 2, 2006

In his post Andrew asks, How do professional arts organizations foster and encourage participatory practice in our communities, and is that part of their job? Or are we working along a spectrum of cultural opportunities that demands we focus even more narrowly on our point in that spectrum?

Arts 40

Arts Web Social Wisconsin 40

Candid

MAY 15, 2024

Our approach to grantmaking developed organically over a period of five years as we learned from grassroots organizations and adapted our practices to meet their needs. To make the process transparent and participatory, we also asked other values-aligned organizations for feedback on our initial framework before putting it into action.

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Philanthropy Proposal Application Relationship 52

TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Brands are participatory, so you create your own brand story at launch, but others define it as you grow. Hear from Greylock’s Glen Evans (former Slack, Facebook and Google) on how to optimize the recruiting and hiring process, how to find and develop talent and the best practices for closing candidates. Kyle Poyar (OpenView).

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San Francisco Learning Benchmark Sponsor 87