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How can nonprofit organizations measure community engagement?

ASU Lodestar Center

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009). 2009, May 1). Sources: Atlee, T.

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Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Comes to London!

Amy Sample Ward

Mobile Tech 4 Social Change Barcamps are local events for people passionate about using mobile technology for social impact and to make the world a better place. In short, Mobile Tech 4 Social Change camp is: A one-day event in London on May 23, 2009 at Vodafone. Participatory and interactive. Each event includes.

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

Museum 2.0

I tweeted and Facebooked a request for friends to suggest things I could resolve to do over the course of 2009. I''d just met a local researcher and I thought she''d be a great person to talk to about it. For example: We worked with a local psychologist to create an implicit associations-based game called "Smart, Hot, Honest or Not?"

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Inspire: create, collect, share! My time at the '09 NTC

Forum One

I literally just rolled off the red-eye back from the 2009 Non Profit Technology Conference (NTC '09), and although I'm exhausted - both physically and mentally - I'm hopeful and excited about everything I heard and saw. This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference.

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Inspire: collect, create, share! My time at the '09 NTC

Forum One

I literally just rolled off the red-eye back from the 2009 Non Profit Technology Conference (NTC '09), and although I'm exhausted - both physically and mentally - I'm hopeful and excited about everything I heard and saw. This year I was fortunate enough to play a very active role at the conference.

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Why I Blog

Museum 2.0

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. The total readership from 2010-2012 was more than double that of 2007-2009 (and has been flat since 2011). As the readership for Museum 2.0

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Guest Post: The Denver Community Museum

Museum 2.0

This post was written by Jaime Kopke , the founder/director of the Denver Community Museum , a pop-up community-generated institution that ran from Oct 2008-April 2009. It was me, a handful of occasional volunteers, some very kind local business partners and a city full of participants. I was shocked.and very happy.

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