Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The session was an introduction to design thinking methods and to generate ideas for instructional modules for networked leadership development. The session lead us through the design thinking process which includes: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As part of the class , we look at different examples of networked strategies and digital platforms and tools and how they can be used to advance civil society goals. Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. For training where you are focusing on a skill, it allows for folks express their opinions (negative or positive) and not have get in the way of the instructional flow later on. There are usually two aspects of this.

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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. We had some money. You can find several more photographs here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions. Reflective Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was drastically different from the Nonprofit Technology Conference, NTEN’s flagship event that has over 2,000 attendees, dozens of tracks and hundreds of panels, big parties, a trade show, and all the things you would expect from a traditional conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

Each month I create the task list organized with different color codes for different types of work/life. There are lot of productivity journals out there, for example, “ Best Self ” and I have reviewed those for inspiration for different checklists, formats, and questions to ask regularly. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. As Clay Shirky says, “A society where everyone has some kind of access to the public sphere is a different kind of society that one where citizens approach media as mere consumers.&#

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2008

The Art of Participation provides a retrospective on participatory art as well as presenting opportunities for visitors to engage in contemporary (“now”) works. As the museum's website puts it, "this exhibition examines how artists have engaged members of the public as essential collaborators in the art-making process."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

It’s a pilot supported by the Packard Foundation that tests different approaches to emerging leaders professional development. C hallenge assumptions : “What do you think you will lose if you start sharing responsibility for the implementation process?”. It helps people process complex thoughts. It is basically a pause.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

And you've decided that you want to integrate community feedback into the development process. Consider whether you want a bonded group (people who are like each other) or a bridged group (people who are different from each other). The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

You’ve likely encountered it when you call a customer service number and are prompted with instructions to press numbers for different issues or service departments.) . The participatory radio campaign approach was used to enhance existing systems, not add new content or processes to the farm radio stations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I created this screencast back in September/October of last year, so this release has provided a great opportunity to meta reflect on the whole screencast creation process as well as consider how my views about the use of tagging have evolved. t be accessed from different locations or computers. (3) and follow the instructions.

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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. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Are the results different?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

I’ve also been looking at ideas from the the Lean Start Up movement, ignited by Eric Ries, author of the Lean Start Up. One of the Lean Startup’s core concepts is build>measure>learn —the process that start ups follow to iterate and learn. 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact by Meg Rulli.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 18, 2019

To that end, it might be a good idea to incorporate text editing platforms such as Grammarly into your writing process. Strategic CTA placement at the beginning and the end of your crowdfunding description can make a world of difference in terms of your project’s engagement rate. Give clear participatory instructions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

What started as an ad hoc group of volunteers is growing into an impressive organization building out a platform that can be deployed for different purposes, from election monitoring to disaster relief. (Even in unintended and surprising ways ). I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion.

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