Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The reality is that our brains only have the capacity to manage a limited number of relationships ??? Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." each of various qualities.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

foundation funding to HBCUs and exploring these schools’ relationship with institutional philanthropy. Community Fund: A Participatory Grantmaking Case Study , by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative   This case study offers a first-hand look at fostering community collaboration in philanthropy. communities face.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2012

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Last month, the Irvine Foundation put out a new report, Getting In On the Act , about participatory arts practice and new frameworks for audience engagement. I've often been asked about examples of participatory practice in theater, dance, and classical music, and this report is a great starting point.

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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. This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

In this workshop, we’ll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. A true evangelist is moved to create, is a seamless co-creator with your organization, and is motivated to spread content.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 4, 2012

In this workshop, we’ll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. A true evangelist is moved to create, is a seamless co-creator with your organization, and motivated spreader of content.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 24, 2010

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. Vi started joking with us about our relationships and hometowns while making sure we all remembered each other's names. Vi was unapologetically personal about her own relationship to the content on display.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2023

When you’ve built strong relationships and have solid non-financial supports in place, you can enable your grantees to be more effective and impactful. Free Resource Tips for Stewarding Responsively 3 Ways to Redefine Risk and Build Stronger Relationships with Your Grantees Download Now 3.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

"Fundraising is about relationships." "The But as a creative type who has recently taken on an executive role, I've been fascinated, shocked even, to learn that the folks in the development department have been singing the relationship chorus for so long. The key to fundraising is listening." On the one hand, this is awesome.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 29, 2023

Going Beyond the Wallet : Strategies to involve and engage donors who seek a more participatory role in your mission. This webinar promises insights and ideas to enhance your donor relationships, engagement, and retention. Register today to ensure your nonprofit thrives in this new philanthropic paradigm!

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Before the internet, nonprofit organizations could only establish supportive relationships with the limited number of individuals and organizations in their region. Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Making Decisions and Getting Consensus. Strategic Dialogue. Organizational Development. Networked Facilitation. Community Organizing. Any many more.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

AI can handle repetitive tasks, enabling staff to dedicate more time to relationship building and strategic thinking. Rather than viewing AI as a replacement for human expertise, philanthropy should champion its use as a complement. This reframing can reduce skepticism and encourage broader adoption. Build AI literacy.

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Candid

APRIL 11, 2024

Ultimately, it was Candid’s responsiveness and emphasis on relationship building that shifted my perspective from uncertainty to confidence. Grounded in a participatory approach, the tool will be designed by WFN members and built by WFN’s data and insights team. They built a public API and released a public data set.

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Candid

AUGUST 20, 2024

There have been innovations with respect to the grantmaking process and decision making, like participatory grantmaking and trust-based philanthropy. It is a powerful position to be in, to develop a relationship with an organization on the ground and re-commit to its work on an annual basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. It is important to have a face-to-face meeting to get started and most importantly to build relationships and trust. This is especially important when you are working cross-culturally.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 7, 2009

Which of these descriptions exemplifies participatory museum practice? But the difference between the two examples teases out a problem in differentiating "participatory design" from "design for participation." In the first case, you are making the design process participatory. In the second, you make the product participatory.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2010

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2011

Recently, I've been doing a lot of workshops with cultural professionals around the question of developing authentic relationships between institutions and visitors. There's a fundamental strangeness to the concept of a relationship between a human and an organization. I expect you'll remember some basic things about me--say, my name.

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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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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

As many of you know, I’m writing a book about participatory design for museums. The book is intended to be a practical guide to participatory museum experiences focused on design strategies, case studies, and activities. The WHY of participatory design is really important. And there’s a third reason.

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Deeper community relationships through focus groups or community advising committees can further help museums connect with issues relevant to their communities while also hold the museum accountable for their responses.

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Care2

MARCH 6, 2011

That’s a big question on nonprofits’ minds, which are trying to engage with them early in hopes of developing long-term relationships with these future donors. Will the Millennials be a generation of social activists or slacktivists? Unfortunately, Millennials have been portrayed as the “me generation&#.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 16, 2009

The creation and communication of this knowledge occurs in social networks of relationships, empowered by social media. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. Description: Sustainability requires doing more with less, constantly learning how to get more out of every pound of material and watt of energy. What is social media? -

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? Teens are not the only people with stories to tell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

I am the director of a non-profit that promotes open museum practices, and we are in midst of launching a free service for arts organizations: a web site that permits any museum to create a participatory exhibit space and social network centered on the museum's collections. It's been my bible for community and relationship building.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

He’ll break down how journalists think about news, how to get their attention and how to own the relationship in the long term. Brands are participatory, so you create your own brand story at launch, but others define it as you grow. ASTRSK founder Elliot Tomaeno has spent his life telling startups’ stories to the press.

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 19, 2023

We focus on participatory, culturally-inclusive, and intersectional equity-oriented research that brings to the foreground impacted communities. We use a multi-method approach with qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods to critically examine and shape the social and technical processes that underpin and surround AI technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, However, a community is more than the sum total of its members and their relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Production System: The purpose here is the non-profit’s itself, and the maps describe relationships and roles in realizing the purpose; this commonly models how the organization does its work. . Key is a participatory development process. Generally there are three types of purposes that are priorities for non-profits to understand. .

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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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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

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.” . One of them said: “As the rich get vaccinated, the poor remain exposed to the virus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. Second, the relationship between weak and strong ties is one of complementarity and support, not one of opposition.

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sgEngage

JUNE 28, 2023

Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. Build Trust Through Relationships “There have to be conversations about who philanthropy, as a sector, trusts and who we don’t trust,” said Natanja. Now comes the hard work of building meaningful and authentic relationships.

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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 uniqueness of the Impact Lab’s goals is its multidisciplinary approach and the diversity of experience, including both applied and academic research.

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