Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

I first discovered the organization about a year ago when I taught some workshops in India. Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses by Gautam John. Like my friend Gautam John , I’ve been an advocate and donor to Creative Commons.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

So, it was really a great honor to co-teach a master class on digital strategy and two crowdfunding workshops. We also had an opportunity to make a recording to deliver some of the content from our workshop that the IFC will make available to small NGOs in other parts of the world. I’ll share that in my next post!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2017

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. I had designed the leadership workshop on resilience to include a lot of solo and peer reflection time and small group work and some small amounts of presentation and context to do the exercises.

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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. Bob has over 25 years of experience supervising and managing staff with extensive experience developing and conducting Direct Support Professional training and supervisory development workshops.

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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. Toward the end of this workshop, we’ll work together to design a co-creation strategy to engage and motivate your online community and evangelists. Related Links : BBCon website.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I''ve given talks and workshops about it all over the world. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Over 20,000 copies have been sold around the world.

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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. Towards the end of this workshop, we’ll work together to design a co-creation strategy to engage and motivate your online community and evangelists. Session information.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

As a designer, I'm always trying to ensure that participatory activities, however casual, impact both the participant and the organization. If fundraisers are so keen on relationships, why weren't they the first into social media and participatory projects on behalf of their organizations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Participatory Gatherings. These skills are useful in all group settings, whether it is a meeting, workshop, or conference. There is no better resource than “ The Facilitator’s Guide To Participatory Decision-Making ” by Sam Kaner. (They also offer workshops ). Organizational Development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

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 design and processes. The facilitation methods are participatory. Often, we get stuck in meeting design ruts where we blindly follow the same template or recipe.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 18, 2015

In a Community Science Workshop. A couple months ago, I visited a Community Science Workshop for the first time in Watsonville, CA. I sat down with Emilyn Green, Executive Director of the Community Science Workshop Network , to learn more about their history, design, and engagement strategy. How are Workshop locations selected?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2014

They host public co-making events, invite groups to book workshops directly, engage on twitter and tumblr , and encourage drop-in participation. A strong participatory process is not a loosey-goosey, open the doors and do whatever strategy. My favorite was this one: "I''m the workshop supervisor, but the workshop belongs to everybody.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

I continued an active schedule of teaching workshops on self-care for nonprofit professionals and creating a culture of well being in the nonprofit workplace as well as numerous keynote presentations. I also facilitated a number of nonprofit staff workshops building on the curriculum. In early 2017, we completed a two week book tour.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 12, 2011

I've experienced all kinds of fabulous museums and participatory experiences from Stockholm to Columbus, Ohio, many of which I will be sharing soon on this blog. It's affordable ($15 for morning plus lunch, $40 for afternoon workshop) and there are still spots available.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2014

During a workshop on museum visitor participation, someone spoke up and objected: "this might work in California, but it will never work in Texas." I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere. This is a human desire.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

Suggest Donations for Activities – Accept donations of supplies for offering engaging workshops, like arts and crafts, or encourage participants to make a suggested donation. Incorporate interactive elements that allow attendees to directly participate.

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Scene: a regional workshop on arts engagement. PARTICIPATORY: can people get involved or contribute to it? High participatory quality, low technical quality. A funder is speaking with conviction about the fact that her foundation is focusing their arts grantmaking strategy on engagement. Engaging new people. Any questions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Each year they bring together diverse, passionate people for a sleep-away camp for adults where they learn together through active, creative workshops and activities. The Happy Healthy Social Change Activist: Passion for a Cause without Burnout Workshop. Teams worked on their zines until the end of the camp.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

This argument became one of the foundations of The Participatory Museum. If it takes a staff member 5 hours to run a screen-printing workshop, it takes her ten hours to run it twice. This is the participatory platform model. Instead of staff running workshops, our staff connect with local printmaking collectives.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

I've learned a lot from attending and teaching workshops this year. Develop compelling, powerful participatory offers and promises for your prospective partners. Tour MAH participatory exhibitions and shadow MAH community events. Get a crash course in social capital theory and ways of measuring community participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Like all good training sessions, this workshop started off with an opening conversation that allowed us to get to know others in the room and connect to what we already know. Heather facilitated this exercise as a series of share pairs where we discussed each question with a different partner for a few minutes.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 3, 2009

Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis. Free workshop on topic of your choosing—Friday, April 24 in Seattle. It’s a two-hour workshop to be held at the university and space is limited— go here to register. He doesn't do workshops. meet my husband and parents-in-law.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2014

Right now, we''re looking for wood chips for a creature-making workshop. But on another level, the wishlist is the most participatory part of the newsletter. When she said this, I realized that what we thought of as a thrifty practicality is actually a great symbol of our participatory, inclusive ethos. It''s the wishlist.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. Museum programs can be designed to further bond similar groups together such as families and friends in family workshops such as the Dallas Museum of Art’s First Tuesdays. Cardboard tube orchestra at Radical Craft Night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2010

In the afternoon, I did workshop and put the audience right on the cat walk with me. This workshop was an experiment in the interactive lecture and lots of small groups. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format. My slides are here.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 27, 2013

There's a constant dialogue in participatory work about how to make peoples' contributions meaningful. I've written about different structures for participatory processes (especially in museums), and recently, I've been interested in how we can apply these structures to the design of public space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

I now look forward to further refining curriculum and workshops over the coming months.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Courageous speakers from dozens of countries described bold, participatory projects. The sessions were smartly structured with different lengths and formats, ranging from panels to workshops to participatory performances to an intense "courtroom" in which co-creation was put on trial. There wasn't one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

We are convinced of the importance of inclusive and participatory design and planning of organizational strengthening interventions. In February 2018, we are hosting our first Organizational Strengthening Design Workshop. We think this makes for greater impact, but more importantly believe it is the right thing to do.”.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I''ve spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Your strategy is your intellectual workshop in the face of uncertainty. An emergent strategy is also participatory. Document your strategy into no more than one-page , and don’t try to perfect it. It’s going to change and if it’s not changing, then you’re probably not responding to the wilds outside your office.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 13, 2014

While MuseumCamp is an unusual event, I''ve learned a lot from it about designing workshops, charrettes, and meetings--pretty much any gathering where you want to encourage playful, creative, risky thinking in groups. I first learned about this technique from Sam Kaner''s excellent book, Facilitator''s Guide to Participatory Decision-Making.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 31, 2012

We will also offer a half-day series of workshops on July 10 for a wider audience for $50. We're working with participatory online artist Ze Frank on an exhibition at the MAH this winter that features the missions, creations, and explorations of his current web series, A Show. Loyalty Lab workshop - Jan 29, 2013.

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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. Trainer the Trainers: Beth Kanter, Mohamad Najem, Jessica Dherre, and Mary Joyce.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I've spent much of the past three years on the road giving workshops and talks about audience participation in museums. In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. Yes and no.

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