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. You have to think of your interpreters as extensions of your facilitation techniques. Small group coaching has it own specific techniques. ” 4) Avoid.

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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. Not only is the content superb, but I also observed and took notes about some excellent participatory facilitation techniques. I’ll share that in my next post!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

1) Review the Year: For as long as I can remember, I have kept an annual professional journal, using a variation of bullet journal technique. I’ve used Chris Brogan’s technique for over a decade and found it very helpful in keeping me focused. I’ve used these rituals for over a decade and found them helpful.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you enjoy and are great at doing? Are there facilitation skills/techniques that you want to improve or work on? Do you have a preferred method?

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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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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. Be internally and publicly transparent about the processes for data collection. It can support funder and cross-sector collaborations and the processes of decision-making.

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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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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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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. From day 1, I believed that we needed to focus in our first year on creating new participatory events to engage the community. Again, the jury is out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

In the book, Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness, and (World Peace) , author Chade-Meng Tan offers 3 simple techniques to practice mindful conversations. Dipping: This is checking in with yourself and to notice any internal distractions or feelings – not to judge them but be aware.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Recently, I was giving a presentation about participatory techniques at an art museum, when a staff member raised her hand and asked, "Did you have to look really hard to find examples from art museums? Aren't art museums less open to participation than other kinds of museums?" I was surprised by her question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

tools and techniques. Build internal allies. The topics include: Control and Transparency: How comfortable is the foundation with the participatory nature of Web 2.0 The authors are David Brotherton and Cynthia Scheiderer who will present the report at the upcoming Communications Network conference. Be strategic. communications?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

Here''s the data on how people responded to the prompts (with thanks to Brandt Courtway, intern extraordinaire): Cocktail napkins: 541 responses, 51% appropriate Rear view mirrors: 120 responses, 52% appropriate Fridge certificates: 221 responses, 72% appropriate Clearly, the fridge was the big winner.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

For me, the most interesting internal and interpersonal dialogue at Artprize was about these questions, which pushed me to more deeply consider how I make aesthetic judgements and experience art. There was no "show" or overriding theme of each venue or gallery, no sameness of technique or content. This bore out at Artprize.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Ready to turn your institution into a site of participatory engagement? Want to bring the spirit of this blog to your colleagues and projects? Have an audacious idea but don't know where to start?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. I see three significant internal reasons for homogenization in museums: As money gets tight, museums look for exhibits, program strategies, and revenue streams that are "proven" by other institutions' successes, rather than charting their own potentially risky path.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. Maybe it is more like moment capture. t be accessed from different locations or computers. (3) Act 2: Definitions.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2016

My career first got moving at a brilliant example of the customer-centered museum: the International Spy Museum. The objects in both museums were varied, and the display techniques incorporated movement, varied sight lines, juxtaposition, and humor to keep us intrigued and engaged. They care about visitor comfort.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 7, 2008

This is a long post focused on strategic uses of listening rather than specific techniques. For many museums, visitor research--how people use the museum, navigate exhibits, and understand content--may be an equally important arena in which to adopt groundswell listening techniques. What does it mean to listen to the groundswell?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

This is a session where you’ll be an active participant in your learning and will leave ready to apply lots of practical tips and techniques that will give your trainings more impact. Group Polling Techniques and Tools. Facilitation Methods and Techniques. Design Thinking As Instructional Technique. Learning Styles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

The ideas and techniques in Lean Start Up movement also work for nonprofits and what some are calling “ Lean Impact.” Girl Develop It is an international organization, certified by the Board of Education, that provides hands-on instruction and mentorship for women and girls who want to learn coding.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers: Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change Are you intrigued by infographics and how they could improve your communication strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.”

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Google Research AI blog

JANUARY 24, 2023

We identified and demonstrated techniques to mitigate causal “ shortcuts ”, which lead to a lack of ML system robustness and dependency on sensitive attributes, such as age or gender. Another key part of our ML work involves developing techniques to build models that are more inclusive. The 10 shades of the Monk Skin Tone Scale.

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