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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube.

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Museum 2.0

When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube.

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What the Third Sector Can Learn from the Public Sector

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Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Participatory. Participatory. In San Francisco, datasf.org aggregates raw data from over 140 city departments, making it available to any member of the public, for any reason. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative.

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. For example, the #givelist tag aggregated all the suggestions from Twitter and then created this site. Another example, although not totally nonprofit focused is #blogchat.

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Voters: Part 1 - Multimedia Tagging Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics. They are encouraging people to tag into del.icio.us, flickr, YouTube, etc. and then aggregating tagged content on their site. The content aggregation is not moderated. There are 198 photos in the flickr stream. (My

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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, In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

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Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. Specifically, the Brooklyn Museum is doing research about the role of independence and influence in participatory experiences.

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