Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. This design was a participatory process and was intended to provide an opportunity for deep reflective process.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 22, 2012

It's the end of the summer, which means we are sadly bidding farewell to our fabulous summer interns, getting lonely and scared about how we will possibly do amazing work in the coming months without their brilliance, ingenuity, and creativity. And then comes the part where we recruit new interns , get blown away by their abilities.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. If you don't have a sense of an outcome--whether that be internal research, community conversation, or something else--you can't decide how or whether contributions should be documented or archived.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. This way of working requires a different, more participatory leadership model and mindset that Allison Fine and I first wrote about in The Networked Nonprofit and others have written about called “networked leadership.” It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven.

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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. Participatory Gatherings. Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

We have an intern, Kathryn, who emailed each participant individually to thank them for coming, shared their personal photo, and gave them the link to the rest of the photos. Instead of interns with clipboards tentatively approaching visitors who were busy having fun, the booth put feedback on visitors' own terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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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. Tags: participatory museum Quick Hits.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 26, 2022

Identify and analyze stakeholders: Stakeholders can be internal or external, primary or secondary (Castillo, 2020). Collaborate through field work and participatory practice. Participatory practice includes the most common strategies: surveys, community meetings, focus groups and informant interviews (Woodford & Preston, 2011).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? Museum staff create an exhibit by a traditional internal design process, but the exhibit, once open, invites visitors to contribute their own stories and participation. In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. The exhibit opens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

Tharum has served as a communications director for a number of international NGOs based in Cambodia, but recently launched his own communications agency. I always welcome the opportunity to observe and participate in other sessions, especially when they use participatory techniques. I’ll share that in my next post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

How do we help individuals and organizations make that internal shift in mindset as well as structure for working to be effective? 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 Identify people in your organization who are open to social media and have influence. Think of social media adoption as an internal social change process.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

International giving was not limited within the borders of Europe, however. With increasingly international employee relationships, outsourcing and supply chains, this leaves donors exposed to reputational risk if they do not directly support communities along their footprints.” .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

In a normal year, I make it to the highest level on my airline frequent flyer program, in part, due to many long-haul international flights. In 2020, it was about adapting participatory processes to the virtual, remote environment. This year, I have no airline status.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. I also invite guests to come into my class via Zoom video conference.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 15, 2024

Even if your organization isn’t ready for a full participatory approach to your grantmaking, for example, understand the core tenets so you can address questions and get feedback from grantees. Monitor changes in both philanthropy and technology so you can determine what makes the most sense for your organization and grantees.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. The value of participatory experiences is epitomized in FIGMENT , a free, creative, participatory, non-profit, community art event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2017

” This would be a network or community of practice that freely shares and learns from one another about training and capacity building that is participatory , peer-learning , networked , makes use of design thinking , openly shared and a prelude to collective action. I was interviewed for the report).

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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 25, 2011

I've seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

At Forum One, we have created a cross-disciplinary internal working group on accessibility. This takes our approach out of a project-by-project mindset, and also challenges us to look internally. The “I’m Determined” website focused on better addressing its audiences’ needs through a participatory design process.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

Another advantage of grants management software is helping you efficiently manage your grant process through reminders, both internally and externally. Incorporate your internal controls and processes into your grants management system to make sure your staff and your grantees understand what is expected of them.

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Grant Software Management Application 97

Google Research AI blog

MARCH 16, 2023

We study and develop scalable, rigorous, and evidence-based solutions using data analysis, human rights, and participatory frameworks. The Impact Lab team, part of Google’s Responsible AI Team , employs a range of interdisciplinary methodologies to ensure critical and rich analysis of the potential implications of technology development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy. Key is a participatory development process. We can easily be overwhelmed by the complexity of our work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve seen this line of questioning almost completely disappear in the past two years due to many research studies and reports on the value and rise of participation, but in 2006-7, social media and participatory culture was still seen as nascent (and possibly a passing fad). In 2008, the conversation started shifting to "how" and "what."

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

Photo by CLoé Zarifian, MAH Photo Intern We're working with a guest curator, Wes Modes , on an upcoming experimental project at our museum. This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. This open call project may sound like one that is uniquely suited for participatory input.

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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 And yes, they've served our organization in all kinds of tangible ways--introducing us to new interns, volunteers, and program ideas.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

I'm personally most excited about the two types of interns who will be reporting to me: Community Research interns, who will start developing a methodology for us to use to understand how people in Santa Cruz connect with arts and culture experiences and what role the museum can play in satisfying their interests.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Yet, our executives and managers, our internal stakeholders cannot understand the open culture. It is my hope, my prayer that I can use these god given communication skills, our not so new world of participatory media, and make green something so compelling that it cannot help but become an all powerful movement. Get out now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

GIVE BACK by reporting out on what I have learned and how I am using the books, both internally (within my org.) . - 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!). It takes content, strategy and elbow grease.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2012

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined. The scale and scope of participation in A Show is extraordinary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Our practice emerged (and it truly emerged – our parent organization Counterpart International developed its theory of change after over 50 years of working in communities around the world) and was grounded in community led development. We think this makes for greater impact, but more importantly believe it is the right thing to do.”.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. International Fundraising Conference - IFC 2016.

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