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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. Open Community by Lindy Dreyer and Maddie Grant. 9 The Participatory Museum by Nina Simon.

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#ThankYouWednesday After A Successful #GivingTuesday

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2010, Gates and Warren Buffett publicly launched the Giving Pledge to encourage billionaires to donate the bulk of their wealth to charity, which includes one from Zuckerberg, although it does not describe the scale of his gift.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

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This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! was awarded a Knight 2010 News Challenge grant for Stroome , a collaborative video editing and publishing platform designed to. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8.

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Voting on Art and its Surprising Consequences

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Let's look at the statistics from three big participatory projects that wrapped up recently. Each of these invited members of the public to vote on art in a way that had substantive consequences--big cash prizes awarded, prestige granted, exhibitions offered. Or at least, that's what I experienced when I went to ArtPrize in 2010.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

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This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! This special Digital Storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TSDigs challenge in February. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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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. So we tend to have three legs of support: municipal, grants/donations, and fee for service (usually with the school district). Several Community Science Workshops also get Measure S grants - gang prevention grants - through their cities.

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Thoughts on 3six5, a Successful Participatory Project

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Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. Granted, the posts so far have been somewhat tech-heavy, but I think that will diversify more as the year goes on. It showcases diverse voices.