Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

Today, after several years of researching and writing, Timms and Heimans have finally published their book called “ New Power: How Movements Build, Businesses Thrive, and Ideas Catch Fire in Our Hyperconnected World.” It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. The goal is not to hoard it but to channel it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. The event will end with an “ Idea Accelerator ” where participants will have an opportunity to develop and pitch an actionable idea for feedback and funding.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. I suspect these big ideas were opaque to most visitors. This year, we took a different approach.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

But sometimes trends are the beginning of an idea, just starting to take shape, that will become the norm in a few years or a few decades. This is why it’s important to keep an eye on the trends impacting the philanthropic industry, and incorporating the ideas that make sense for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. You have to have an idea of what you’d like to say, and then you have to say it in a way that satisfies your expectations of quality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). I know in my own practice have made a conscious effort to go into any workshop with a goal practicing these.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

Source: Share Your Ideas. 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 purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

There are many different forms of engagement with many different outcomes depending on your goals, your project, or your institution." In early 2014, we developed a set of five engagement goals: Relevant, Sustainable, Bridging, Participatory, Igniting. We developed these goals through a series of all-staff workshops.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences. You have to have an idea of what you’d like to say, and then you have to say it in a way that satisfies your expectations of quality.

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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. After finishing the share pairs, we did a quick full group “popcorn” of the ideas that bubbled up. We circled in on these ideas: Revisiting the discomfort zone and know it is normal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

If you’re like many of us working in nonprofit leadership today, you’re more than likely exhausted and running out of actionable ideas. So where are all the good ideas? This is where participatory practice comes in to play. The goals must be SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and measurable).

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

From financial concerns to personnel decisions to crisis response, the strategic plan should not be reserved only for long-range goal setting. Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. Allow the goals to develop out of the data. Diversity of opinion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start. The most important question to ask yourself before you start: If measurement shows you are not on track to achieve your goals, are you willing to change course or establish new goals altogether? Goal setting is often rushed.

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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!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

It is not code for one idea. PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? High participatory quality, low technical quality. Define what quality means for your goals, for your project, for your institution. Ideas cultural competency design' It can unlock several. TECHNICAL: is it masterful?

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Care2

JANUARY 12, 2011

Which tool is best for your group will depend on your goals, your members level of engagement, and the group’s comfort level with social technologies. The most successful groups on Facebook are those whose members are passionate about the group’s focus and goals.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 5, 2013

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. To me, the backlash against participatory and community-centered experiences is not surprising.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

This weekend I participated in a Webinar about the book The Whuffie Factor along with author Tara Hunt where we discussed how the ideas apply to nonprofits. ADAPT my existing social media strategy based on the new things I learn and ideas I have as a result of reading the books. and externally (with all of your fine readers!).

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2021

When Clubhouse was launched in its alpha form last year, it was discussed as being a new form of participatory media “that would change everything,” d’Sa said, and he wanted something like that for his work colleagues. He dug into how the app was being powered by Agora and began developing a desktop app for his idea.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 29, 2011

Last month, I learned about a fabulous, simple participatory experiment called “Case by Case” at the San Diego Museum of Natural History that uses visitor feedback to develop more effective object labels. Our exhibits group knocked around ideas for mechanisms of audience feedback.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Here are a few design rules I use to think about what kinds of designed dialogue environments are right for different experience goals. If your goal is to encourage visitors to perceive themselves as partners in the content co-creation experience, make room for their thoughts sooner rather than later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. Key is a participatory development process. Institute for Strategic Clarity, March 15. People can understand why someone else is doing what they are doing.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 18, 2019

Whether you work for a small staff or you’re a bigger nonprofit with a clever new idea, crowdfunding can help you put your plans in motion. To that end, it might be a good idea to incorporate text editing platforms such as Grammarly into your writing process. Give clear participatory instructions.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2011

As a researcher and activist for participation, I've sometimes downplayed the value of this charm because it seems like arsenal for professionals who claim participatory projects are frivolous. "Be Be charming and delightful" isn't one of the bottom-line goals of most museums. But maybe it should be.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Weekly, I hear from someone who is putting ideas from the book into action. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. and "why?" to "how?".

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2009

What do you do when you encounter a really great and unusual idea, one that you could implement but would require you to change some aspect of what you are currently doing? I'm working on a personal project (slowly) to open a cafe/bar venue that is also a design incubator for participatory exhibits. Do you jump in or do you shelve it?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

We can change that by embracing participatory culture and opening up to the active, social ways that people engage with art, history, science, and ideas today. For me, the mission that is most compelling is the goal to build social cohesion by bringing people together across differences. We live in such a divided world.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The term, “goal” originally meant the “end of a race” or “boundary”. In short, a goal is an outcome that we seek to achieve, usually a good outcome, one that benefits us or our family, friends, and colleagues. A goal is something you want to happen, sometime in the future, maybe even soon. We do things and tire of doing them.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Policy Change Furthermore, the implicit idea that widespread quality data leads directly to positive policy change is also not accurate.

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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. Here's a synopsis: Participation 1.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 16, 2013

This past weekend, in conjunction with our exhibition about Ze Frank's current participatory project, A Show , we hosted " Ze Frank Weekend "--a quickie summer camp of workshops, activities, presentations, and lots of hugging. Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. All in all, a beautiful and stimulating weekend.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. But even developing that open call was a participatory process: Wes worked with other staff to think through how the residencies could work. This open call project may sound like one that is uniquely suited for participatory input.

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