Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. Circles without tables, just chairs helps promote group discussion. Nothing like first-person accounts. Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo.

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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. The workshop was focused on personal resilience and self-care based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit and was part of series of workshops on resilience. I made this part of the instructions. … Read More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. You can build your resilience by listening to a lecture!

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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're involving visitor services and volunteers more intentionally in facilitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Here’s what I learned: Facilitation Teams. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host. Photo by Trav Williams. Do you have a preferred method?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The lab was facilitated by Heather Mcleod-Grant and Justin Ferrell , Director of Fellowships at the Stanford d-School. Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide. It refers to the part of a participatory process where you know the problem or consensus won’t come easily. Once upon a time x happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process. Here’s a few facilitation techniques that I learned from documenting the session. Kalyani also facilitated a participatory curriculum development process using different techniques. Fish Bowl Exericse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Lots of discussion threads that come out of Reddit such as “I can’t believe that someone who is a minister acted this way.” Ultimately, Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I was in San Antonio this week to facilitate an interactive master class for 300 nonprofits that was hosted by the San Antonio Nonprofit Council that hosts The Big Give, a very successful local giving day. So having a few brainstorming facilitation techniques to use with your team, is useful. It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. When I posted this on my Facebook wall, it prompted some discussion points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). We discussed some of the social media monitoring tools.

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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. In this HBR article about asking empowering questions, the benefits are clear: An empowering question does more than convey respect for the person to whom it’s posed. Flickr Photo by qwrrty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. Giving the audience a chance to interact and discuss content in full groups, share pairs, and small groups allowed for some great stories to emerge from the group. The description: The !deation

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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? Why Use One? New Technology for New Power Movements.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Many channels, both personal and professional. Communities; twitter, rss, threads; in person; by affinities; passions. Jon Lebkowsky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. Each person introduced their: “Five Things You Should Know About Me&# for this project. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2008

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. I've written before about the power of live facilitators. People talk. One guy sings.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

The tours are pricey, personalized, NOT affiliated with the museums involved… and very, very popular. We discussed impressionism from Manet to Monet, and delved deeper in pointillism and Greek sculpture. We shared what captivated and spoke to us on a personal level, not just what we were told was “important."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

The new social tools that we are here to discuss are not so new anymore. There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. I began our talk today with my personal nonprofit history. We’ve seen successes like Barack Obama’s incredible rise to the Presidency.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 22, 2008

When I asked what had happened, he explained that he had been the recipient of an act of tollbooth goodwill; the person in front of him in line had paid his toll. But a gift given from one person to another, however small, feels magical. Why discuss gifting on Museum 2.0? This simple act, a $2.50 OK, so gifting sounds good.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 29, 2009

Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. I am an impatient person. Tags: participatory museum professional development. Side note: three times as many educators filled out surveys than any of the other groups.)

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Unless your organization is tiny, staff members can't have personal relationships with every user--nor, ethically, might they want to. Make room for personal expression and ownership--both by staff and audience members. In most cases, docents and floor staff are trained to be the point person for conversation and idea-sharing.

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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? There is only one difference: the Books in the Living Library are human beings, and the Books and readers enter into a personal dialogue. Are you looking for an innovative no-tech way to engage visitors in civic dialogue?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

We each worked individually on our own sets of cards, coming back together for discussion as we progressed through the various stages. I collected some tools to use in planning and discussing a new business. The good news? The bad news? A company in which program recipients are involved with governance suggests a community board model.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

Rock climbing (safely) is a two-person activity. One person holds the rope, the other ascends the rock. The gym staff aren’t offering instruction or serving as users’ partners; instead, they facilitate connections among the users. Use simple low-tech signalers to allow visitors to “opt in” to discussion.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking? Facilitators have many superpowers, and like superheroes, many of those powers may be invisible to others.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

But all of us have experienced more informal, less well-facilitated forms of discourse. Sue Allen spoke of an uncomfortable discussion in an airport with a man on the opposite side of the Iraqi war from her, a conversation in which she and the man careened towards and away from each other, conflicted yet drawn to the debate.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 27, 2008

“KEYNOTE SPEAKER: YOU” reminds me of when Time named “you” the person of the year. But the VSA has taken an intentional approach to these structured conversations with the goal of putting the (arguably) best part of conferences—the side conversations and hallway discussions—front and center. It smacks of substanceless pandering.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 16, 2007

I want to see more multi-person exhibits, more prompts for discussion about content, more tools to facilitate connecting wtih other visitors whose interests are similar or in some way useful to your own. Use the authority of the museum to facilitate exchange of phone numbers between strangers?"

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The 33rd Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute features leading nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance and government to discuss the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. Personal Democracy Forum 2016. Personal Democracy Forum 2016.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2010

On a recent trip to the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, I noted a discussion board in the "Nursery" gallery. What makes this discussion board stand out? The questions are specific, personal, and written to elicit responses that will be useful to other parents and caregivers. In some cases, it might be the institution or staff.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

And I’ll be moderating our discussion as always. The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. We had several community discussions about the competition disincentivizing collaboration--the money sent a contradictory signal to all our talk about sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Extension programs track blog conversations and respond.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

I’m Steven, I’m over here at Bloomerang, and I’ll be moderating today’s discussion. . It’s beautiful, wonderful when everyone comes together, but then you have so many personalities and ideas, agendas can get messy really quick. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

With that in mind, I turned the question of “who is a museum” to the people, here and on my social platforms, even my personal ones. In the end, all of this discussion is fruitful to the museum workers to keep us intellectually stimulated but mean nothing if we don’t put them into action for visitors.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

This post recaps those sessions and other personal highlights of the conference. This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. Finally, museums as "facilitators" of visitors' own experiences and interests.

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