Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

This participatory event is offering two days of focused discussion about—how these networks, and the capabilities that power them, can be effectively leveraged to create greater impact. Plus it is always a pleasure for me to observe “Gunner’s&# facilitation techniques (I learn so much).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

deation conference hosted by Charles Lee. Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. I was invited to participate in the first inaugural !deation

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. Hat tip to Alan Levine/CogdogBlog for the transcription and facilitating the audio. Technorati Tags: VECoP

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

The opening plenary was hosted by the renowned Usha Menon , past chair of the Resource Alliance and celebrated speaker, connector and consultant to the social impact sector. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques.

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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. We’d love to see you there!

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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.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

JANUARY 28, 2018

The process was a collaboration in itself, with TSNE MissionWorks , and Essential Partners serving as co-hosts. World class facilitation and guidance was provided by Essential Partners, with the revered Dave Joseph serving as facilitator-in-chief. Studying (and implementing) community-based participatory research methods. __.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Last week I was honored to be a counselor at Museum Camp , an annual professional development event hosted by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH). Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator.

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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?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Works are chosen and hung throughout the city using a unique venue matching system whereby local businesses, galleries, and organizations select the artworks they want to host. The artists come from all over (though many are based in the Midwest), and anyone can enter. Before I went, Artprize intrigued but did not fascinate me. The prizes?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 29, 2020

Program officers and staff spend long hours shepherding grantees through this complex process, collecting and reviewing endless pages of documentation, and debating the merits of projects with a host of reviewers and committees. The process emphasizes administration and paperwork over engagement and relationship.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 20, 2010

This is a participatory comment board in a true sense. The institution facilitates the space and tools to allow visitors to provide information to each other. It just has to host the space for the conversation. The museum doesn't have to have all the answers.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

I love playing host to friends, but I clam up in big crowds, never go to happy hour, and don't know how to flirt. I wouldn't be the person I am today, one who is genuinely interested in others' opinions and jumps into participatory museum experiences, if not for my time on the museum floor in the magic vest. What's your magic vest?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2013

I love playing host to friends, but I clam up in big crowds, never go to happy hour, and don''t know how to flirt. I wouldn''t be the person I am today, one who is genuinely interested in others'' opinions and jumps into participatory museum experiences, if not for my time on the museum floor in the magic vest. What''s your magic vest?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2010

There are some parties where hosts go out of their way to welcome guests individually and to introduce them to others via shared interests - making sure Susie the winemaker meets George the restauranteur and so on. Not every cultural experience requires a party host (though they are always useful). Ideas participatory museum.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

It also helps that we generally sell out at 8 people, and the guide always has a co-host if the group gets that big. 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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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Many years ago, NetSquared hosted challenges and conferences to highlight and bring together fledging social entrepreneurs. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 1, 2010

Here are four surprising things Oldenburg describes about third places—characteristics I think would be quite difficult for cultural institutions to assume: The primary attraction of a third place is the patrons, not the décor, the hosts, or the activities provided by management. The cultural service model is antithetical to the third place.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Raffles – Raffle donated prizes or host a silent auction for unique experiences, gift baskets, art, and other items. Aim to create an inclusive, welcoming atmosphere that brings together diverse AAPI communities and builds bonds. Share stories that inspire giving.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 19, 2016

It doesn't matter what incentives you offer to participate or how attractive the invitation is if the recipient doesn't know or trust you as a host. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Respect and value people's time.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

This creates a dependency where visitors only experience the communal relationship if it is facilitated by staff. We have to retrain ourselves and our staff not to be the center of the relationship but instead to be the hosts who match make among visitors, who can then pursue more sustainable relationships on their own.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 15, 2015

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (which she directs) teamed up with the San Francisco Planning Department and the Knight Foundation to host the Market Street Prototyping Festival. While "final" versions of these prototypes would need to stand alone on the sidewalk, the best prototypes are facilitated.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. You can view and download all the slides here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 9, 2007

The gym staff aren’t offering instruction or serving as users’ partners; instead, they facilitate connections among the users. Retrain floor staff to be party hosts. Tags: participatory museum visitors. It’s a very simple nudge towards encouraging users of the gym to meet each other. How could this happen?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

An excellent first small step is to just identify the blogs that are hosting those conversations on the topics that interest you or inform your work. Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Here's a screencast to show you how.

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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. However, I don’t always have that opportunity because many times nonprofit workshops are hosted at conferences at hotels. Have you ever had to do a room hack?

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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 ). ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Last week, Jim Richardson and I hosted MuseumNext , a 24-hour workshop for museum professionals focused on bringing new, wild museum projects into the world. Facilitator bits. I gave an hour-long talk about participatory design practices ( video here ), and Jim gave a small tour of an exhibition he had organized nearby.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. I also learned more about crowdmap , a hosted version of the Ushahidi code – in other words you don’t have to install it on your own web server. I favor a participatory approach with full room discussion.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. They really cared about me.

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