Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Consumer-generated media (CGM) multi-media (CGM2): First-person commentary posted or shared across a host of expression venues. Consumer-solicited media (CSM): "Participatory media" -- that's what the flickr contests above are! Compensated consumer-generated media (CCGM): That's where people get paid to create the content.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship. These interns work with our curatorial team to develop interactive and participatory components for upcoming exhibitions. Exciting, right?

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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. I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

The facilitation methods are participatory. Liberating Structures: My colleagues Nancy White and Kyla Shawyer introduced me to this participatory approach to facilitation. My colleagues, Heather McLeod Grant and Adene Sacks, have just published a new workbook called “ Leading Systems Change.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2014

NTEN is hosting the “ Leading Change Summit ” in San Francisco from September 3-6th. As you can see from the schedule overview , this is more of a participatory event versus the traditional conference with powerpoints and panelists. I’ll pick a winner by July 3oth.

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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. I'm hoping to get a chance to finish during some much needed down time.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Just because you cannot gather with others in a crowded venue to belt out the opening verse of Auld Lang Syne, it doesn’t mean that you can’t host a proper New Year’s Eve celebration. Here are just a few really great ideas for venues and event planners looking to host a killer virtual party! 7 Ideas for a Virtual New Year’s Eve Event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

However, I don’t always have that opportunity because many times nonprofit workshops are hosted at conferences at hotels. This accomplished a few things: I didn’t have to trash my plans and revert to a traditional lecture. I made it participatory so participants helped move the furniture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

deation conference hosted by Charles Lee. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. Charles Lee It's conference season and I will be on the road at various conferences this week and next. So expect some live blogging, and reflections. The description: The !deation

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2011

We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory. If this report leaves you itching to discuss the future of networks for social change in communities, the Knight Foundation is hosting a webinar for conversation at 2 p.m.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 8, 2022

Hosted by Principal Consultant Benjamin Washam and Senior Data Consultant Francis Scudellari, Cloud for Good’s program session will educate NTC attendees on effective, intuitive methods of showcasing your technology’s impact, regardless of the size or maturity of your organization, allowing you to maximize your impact along the way.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

They host public co-making events, invite groups to book workshops directly, engage on twitter and tumblr , and encourage drop-in participation. A strong participatory process is not a loosey-goosey, open the doors and do whatever strategy. design inclusion institutional change participatory museum' It''s serious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The goals need to be front and center through the entire process, particularly when the measurement approach is more new or participatory and is designed to evolve over time.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

I can't say that any one experience--working on a collage with other visitors, swinging on a hammock, discovering a participatory display for pocket artifacts in the bathroom--directly contributed to increased attendance and giving. They all have in concert, and they build on each other.

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Second Life — TechSoup formed the Nonprofit Commons five years ago as a virtual community of nonprofits, thriving and building complex 3D interactive environments and hosting regular meetings with streaming media and a wide variety of participatory options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

I wanted to capture a few thoughts and pointers about using video for fundraising pitches on the web or grassroots participatory video coupled with grassroots participatory fund raising. One of the newer entries into the video hosting game is Revver. I don't know what I mean yet. I contributed. I love retro film.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Kudos to NTEN for breaking the template on the typical type of events it has hosted. The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Often, facilitation teams are brought together by an event host.

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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

DECEMBER 28, 2011

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. This isn't even participatory. All of them are cheap, mostly simple, and occasionally, dangerous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2005

The session and moderator guidelines are designed to make the next a very interactive and participatory conference. Nancy White is still willing to host a ngo/npo dinner. What is important for the many people who couldn't attend from all over the world? Look for Jory.(see Dinner is at 6:00 pm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

He writes a blog called " Read It To Me " that summarizes business books and also hosts Webinars with authors. Earlier this month, I participated in a social media library giveaway organized by Steve Cunningham , who like me, loves books. As you know, it takes more than access to create a successful social media network.

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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. Then again, Saturday was hardly normal at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

They are hosting performances, exhibitions that morph over time, artists who work in practice-based media, who break the fourth wall with the audience, who invite participation, and who deliberately disrupt museum conventions. Throw in a few participatory elements, and suddenly you have visitors trying to arbitrate amongst themselves.

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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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DataRobot

APRIL 7, 2021

Hood is credited with introducing the term systems biology and he advocates for what he refers to as P4 medicine: predictive, personalized, preventive, and participatory. I met Lee, as he is widely known, thirty years ago at Caltech and recently had the privilege of hosting him for a DataRobot podcast.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 10, 2018

The book explains how to host events with purpose, drawing lessons from intimate parties, mass happenings, and international summits. Here are my three big takeaways from The Art of Gathering : Hosting is an exercise in courageous leadership. When you host an event, you have the power to define what happens. To clear the plates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Global Voices is the leading participatory media room for voices from developing countries around the globe. I remember first coming across it back in 2005 when it was just a simple blog hosted at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. They've just launched their online fundraising campaign to keep the world talking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

We are convinced of the importance of inclusive and participatory design and planning of organizational strengthening interventions. In February 2018, we are hosting our first Organizational Strengthening Design Workshop. We think this makes for greater impact, but more importantly believe it is the right thing to do.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Kellogg Foundation are cultivating cross-sector learning by developing program evaluation curriculums, and hosting forums for nonprofits to exchange lessons and ideas. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MAY 9, 2006

I've also been on about participatory video on the net lately, in particular the much-in-the-news You Tube , as well as CurrentTV. In a comment on one of those posts Anne Walk refers us to this surprisingly long list of free video hosting services on the web. Collaborative Spreadsheets.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Just because you cannot gather with others in a crowded venue to belt out the opening verse of Auld Lang Syne, it doesn’t mean that you can’t host a proper New Year’s Eve celebration. Here are just a few really great ideas for venues and event planners looking to host a killer virtual party! 7 Ideas for a Virtual New Year’s Eve Event.

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Virtual Ideas Hosting Celebrate 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

WOW2 hosts immediately made the connection to micro blogging or micro media making. I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site. How do you optimize your media (like video and photographs) to upload quickly and take up less time (and money spent) at an Internet cafe?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! On 8.8.08, the Ontario Science Center (Toronto, Canada) hosted the 888 YouTube meetup for any and all YouTube aficionados. Projects participatory museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Amira Achouri, from an NGO in Tunisia, observed, “As the communications landscape gets denser, more complex, and more participatory, the networked population is gaining greater access to information, more opportunities to engage in public speech, and an enhanced ability to undertake collective action.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Cultural Connections is a group of museum professionals who meet up a few times a year and host excellent programs on a variety of topics. This week, they hosted "Let Them Be Heard: Visitor Participation in the Museum Experience," featuring four presentations on incorporating visitors' content into museums.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

On Sunday I hosted a Flickr Bootcamp, where I worked with non profit, "accidental techies," and helped them learn about better online photo sharing techniques. This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference.

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