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10 Nonprofit Books from 2010

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon. The book is available on Amazon.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

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This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. But almost ALL of those opportunities are facilitated by people. Humans empower each other.

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A New Year: A New Learning Journey Begins

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I now look forward to further refining curriculum and workshops over the coming months. This year, 2012, will have a focus on designing and delivering capacity building projects with NGOs outside the US.

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How can nonprofit organizations measure community engagement?

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He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. Affordable Hous. & Cmty. Frumkin, P.

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

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Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. This 2010 TED talk is a good introduction if you haven't experienced his work before. The scale and scope of participation in A Show is extraordinary.

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Can Stories Be Data?

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Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation , about participatory learning agendas. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data?

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

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I came on in 2010 to start the statewide nonprofit network. Part of this is practical: you can''t facilitate making and tinkering for 30 kids if you have to hand them everything they need. For example, the Exploratorium is an extraordinarily participatory museum, but it''s not nearly as participatory as a Community Science Workshop.

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