Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When I facilitate meetings or workshops for nonprofits, not matter the topic, I incorporate many participatory approaches and design thinking methods. ” This is a simple process for getting participants to prioritize ideas or decisions. You use this to follow a brainstorming activity which may yield an abundance of new ideas.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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. One way to bring people together over a common theme is to host a virtual tasting party. idea is to host a virtual murder mystery party. Virtual Tasting. Games are fun.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

In some instances, you might need a longer amount of time to do this exercise, but the way this was facilitated with 50 people was highly productive and efficient. In some instances, you might need a longer amount of time to do this exercise, but the way this was facilitated with 50 people was highly productive and efficient.

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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? It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It was fascinating to see people--across social differences--responding to representations of love in the paintings, images, objects and narratives that were part of the installation. It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 19, 2013

He casts the whole idea of a great jazz jam in the context of the tragedy of the commons--like a poetry open mic, the jazz club is a community whose experience is fabulous or awful depending on the extent to the culture cultivates and enforces a healthy participatory process. These suffer from an excess of equality.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 2, 2014

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

For those who can''t see the image, the card reads: When I first saw the "pastports" I didn''t really understand, but after reading what people wrote in them I felt an overwhelming connection to all the words of so many random people. People could take the pastports home or hang them, open to a preferred page, on a clothesline.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Stakeholder involvement will drastically improve the final plan and create a culture of participatory decision-making. Even the people who benefit from the organization’s mission can provide valuable input on the strategic plan. There also needs to be a free flow of ideas in safe, nonjudgmental environments.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

This exhibition showcases collectors from throughout Santa Cruz County--people with collections from animal skulls to dryer lint to priceless historic flags. This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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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. It is a sector must read. It downloads and it captures.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Here are four ways you can make your funding program better for the people who will be completing it. They are typically pulling information from different parts of the organization and trying to chase down information from other busy people. As funders, you know what information you need to make a decision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

When I design and facilitate meeting for clients, board meetings, or as part of a workshop, webinar or other training, I’m always looking for new ideas for facilitation and interactive processes. The facilitation methods are participatory.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The tendency of philanthropic professionals, big donors, and other relatively privileged people to assume that they know what is best for the people who are directly affected by the problems that need to be addressed. Deciding Together Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking. Here are 6 ways it could go.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

I'm particularly excited about two internships that relate to participatory exhibition design. Our interns include undergraduates, graduate students, and people of all ages looking to jumpstart creative careers in community engagement. First, there is the Participatory Exhibit Design Internship. Exciting, right?

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. Weekly, I hear from someone who is putting ideas from the book into action. A black box with people crowded around, talking and sharing and making and doing. Build community.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The key question is, every step of the way: how can you invite people beyond yourself to help make this step better? This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. How can people--staff, volunteers, community members--help make this project better?

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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. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. Consider a mural.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Within Forum One, and among the mission-driven organizations we work with, I sense that more people understand that accessibility isn’t a box to check, but rather an integrated part of project design and delivery. Maybe that made a whole new set of people more empathetic to the idea of accessibility. We can’t connect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries. Innovation / Generating New Ideas. Participatory Gatherings. A simple “who else has an idea?”

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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. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. Consider a mural.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

" Taking it a little deeper, organizations should not go in the other direction - and be strategic in friending people. offers personal insights in opening up to new ideas and letting go of information, hierarchy and "proprietary" thinking. each of various qualities. More here ). * The mindshift to be successful.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 3, 2021

It can empower people across locations to share their individual ideas and build on others’ ideas. It can be inclusive and participatory. My goal is to design virtual experiences to be as inclusive and participatory as possible. I was just meeting some of these students, I was just setting the tone for class.

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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! Blog about it. Tweet about it.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

An idea that has captured the attention of the startup tech sector is the notion of growth hacking, a way to quickly scale a business through rapid experimentation. People want to spread ideas much more than they care about being card-carrying member of your organization. It’s central in pretty much everything people do today.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

on personal and organizational resilience based on the ideas in my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. Having a large enough space so people can move around and self-organize into small groups also promotes learning. It also provided a nice transition between sections, giving people a little brain break to digest the information.

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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. The design challenge was: How do we come up with concrete tools, frameworks and methods for helping people better understand and adopt network systems leadership? Normalize the hump.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

I would guess that most people have no idea that this work is happening at zoos. We give people content and then we say, "you decide." In contrast, check out charity: water , a non-profit that works to ensure safe drinking water for people around the world. I certainly didn''t. This can sound disingenuous. But it''s true.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. Museums and traditional institutions are not typically set up to manage participatory projects at such a high level of detail.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2015

And so, one of the most successful, accidental, and fraught participatory projects of the past decade comes to an end. No one planned the love locks, but their success is rooted in the same principles that make all the best participatory projects work: it requires no instructions beyond its own example. Nor are they historic.

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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. Buchholz believes vibrant communities make for healthy people and planet.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 17, 2010

This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. Well actually, this post is about the people who participated at the highest level of engagement.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Engaging new people. Engaging more diverse people. Engaging people actively in the arts. It is not code for one idea. INTERPRETATIVE: can people understand it? EDUCATIONAL: can people learn from it? RELEVANT: can people relate to it? PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 1, 2014

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. We imagined an cart at the farmer’s markets where people could record stories. You can come alone or with up to three people.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

A few weeks ago, the MAH Director of Community Programs, Stacey Garcia, came to me with an idea. We don't yet know how people will respond to the emails, and we have some kinks to work out with the booth and camera setup. It accomplished several things at once: It drew people in. We got more feedback. We got intriguing feedback.

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