Non Profit Quarterly

MAY 3, 2022

We each have experience running participatory grantmaking and decision-making processes online using different platforms. People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy that aims “to expand people’s power to make government decisions.” It’s time for nonprofits and foundations to upgrade our digital decision-making tools.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

With all these options, we wanted to look back and highlight some of the Issue Lab community’s most popular publications in 2022, featuring a wide array of topics ranging from education to participatory grantmaking and beyond. Expanding Equity: Inclusion & Belonging Guidebook , by the W.K.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? Last week, I talked with Tina Olsen, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Portland Art Museum, about their extraordinary Object Stories project.

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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 Present their stories. Also, it is useful to share some of the wild success stories. In short, deconstruct it and face it head on.

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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

OCTOBER 25, 2011

The most successful documentaries are having a significant impact on major debates and public policies, from environmental concerns to financial regulations. With a project like Granito, the film is only the beginning and serves as an invitation for everyone to share their story.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. The underlying assumption has been that collecting stories as data or even using data to tell stories will inherently bring a more equity-focused approach to philanthropy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

It has an incredible story. The Silk Mill is part of the Derby Museums , a public institution of art, history, and natural history. They host public co-making events, invite groups to book workshops directly, engage on twitter and tumblr , and encourage drop-in participation. It is losing funding, attention, and relevance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Anil Dash says it is wildly anachronistic to think that the only way to effect social change is to assemble a sign-wielding mob to inhabit a public space or as he says “Take A Bath Hippie.&#. The Tools Don’t Create Strong or Weak Ties, Stories and People Do. She Jillian York’s critique.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2007

Now this sort of public participatory use of the web is going mainstream in an experimental program by the U.S. patent office to involve the public in the approval or rejection of patent applications. Here's the story from this morning's Washington Post.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I first read about Story House Belvédère on Jasper Visser’s excellent blog, The Museum of the Future. This small, startup cultural project in Rotterdam works directly and intimately with community members to share their stories. I hope you’ll be as charmed and inspired by Story House Belvédère as I am. But they were wrong.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.” Lots of chatter beyond the Reddit community.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

It's only 15 minutes, so I encourage you to watch it , but here are the crib notes for the video-adverse without the hilarious stories and charming photographs. 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.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

ASTRSK founder Elliot Tomaeno has spent his life telling startups’ stories to the press. A brand is more than a logo and a website; it’s the story that reflects your values and vision, guides every touchpoint and communication, and sparks connection and emotion. How to Get Earned Media. Elliot Tomaeno (ASTRSK).

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 11, 2012

Last week, the local newspaper did a really generous front-page story on my museum (the MAH) and the changes here over the past eight months since I started. Our team focused this year on just three things: making the museum more comfortable, hosting new participatory events, and partnering wherever possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: guest blogging participatory. Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

People are writing their own stories and ideas about our cause rather than us publishing content. Movements involve people, not Marketing, PR, Comms, Public Affairs, etc., And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. How can you tell the difference? Tweet conversations about you.

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Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

This point was addressed by one of the panelists, Dr. Alan Rosenblatt from the Center for American Progress, who referenced a Wall Street Journal story indicating that worldwide more internet users communicate via social media channels than email. cannot be ignored by the government and military.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

This is a cultural shift that involves everyone; nonprofit leaders and staff, board members, volunteers, donors, foundation leaders, members of the public and others. Tell the story of learning. Use participatory processes to define metrics and methods of data collection. Develop indicators to include learning as part of PM.

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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.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

Our primary goal for pop up museums is to bring people together in conversation through stories, art, history, and objects. Building off of Michelle DelCarlo’s pop up museum model, MAH pop up museums bring different people, perspectives, and projects to one central gathering place, enabling a democratic type of public curation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. They can contribute their own stories, objects, and creative work to exhibitions. To me, this is an example of how the aggregation of participatory practices fundamentally changes the role that an organization has in its community.

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

Use Data to Clearly Convey Impact Your impact story is multi-dimensional, so your reporting capabilities should be as well. When you require information to be kept in specific places within your GMS, you’ll know what fields can be pulled into public-facing communication and which ones might contain sensitive information.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Therefore, brands should not focus on the changing interests; rather, focus on helping the public participate in a movement. People are more likely to relate to a social issue when humans are at the core of the story. what does the public or millennials for that matter care about in terms of social issues? So what have we found?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox. Net Neutrality needs all the publicity it can get because major media companies, surprise, don?t t want to make it a big story. The project wiki is here and he has a del.icio.us feed where he is tagging resources here.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. Big signs, public talkback walls, and open spaces made the conference porous to the community. I heard fresh ideas, stories, and challenges in each room. I first sensed the difference at the front door. There wasn't one.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 28, 2009

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. The question is, "would you recommend this book to someone?"

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Achieve

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Your narrative should do two things: help individual supporters conceptualize how your issue could lose momentum or the attention of others without your organization’s laser-like focus on it; deliver a compelling story about how others benefit from your work. Creating an “Opportunity” Narrative for Supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Whether it was a 12 year old starting a fundraising drive to help homeless , GivingTuesday matching grant challenges , nonprofits launching crowd funding campaigns , sharing unselfies about why they give , people sharing their giving stories – yesterday was about abundance in the nonprofit sector versus scarcity.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Notable AAPI athletes, journalists, or other public figures. Share stories that inspire giving. When making appeals, focus on real stories and the concrete outcomes made possible by donations. Try to get calendar listings and stories placed with mainstream news sources. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2018

The chapters are short stories, and most can stand alone. Or how Felton Thomas fought the library union to make the Cleveland Public Library matter more. When I wrote my first book, The Participatory Museum , I released it concurrently as a paperback and free online. Or how Food What?!

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2008

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). This was a relatively quick, easy project that generated a lot of positive publicity and participation for the museum. But there are some places where it falls short.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 14, 2017

Or “I love the MAH because it is a truly participatory space where diverse groups can enjoy, express themselves, and learn from/about/with others.” We don’t have a town square in Santa Cruz, and people feel the acute lack of creative public space. I firmly believe that more creative institutions should be in the public space business.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

The ideal candidate has a good grasp of our local artistic assets in Santa Cruz County, a knack for participatory placemaking, and enthusiasm about putting on a show. Lovely story, but when you are laying concrete, it is really, really hard to wait for the shoes before building the paths. multiple times per week.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

The kind of strategic planning processes that I lead are inclusive and participatory which means that the group is consulted, the vision of the group, the energy, we kind of tap into the energy, vision, knowledge, experience of the people who will be doing the work in order to make plans. Where are we not putting our energy? Okay, yeah.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0

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