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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

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Source: Pratham Books. Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages.

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Remix, Reuse, or Repurpose This Blog Post! Creative Commons Teachable Moment

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Remix this Powerpoint. If you don't know about Creative Commons, it was founded in 2001 , with a mission to increase the amount of creativity (cultural, educational, and scientific content) in “the commons” — the body of work that is available to the public for free and legal sharing, use, repurposing, and remixing. (If

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Next week I'm doing a Webinar for Extension Professionals , a remix of 10 Steps to Association 2.0 which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. I'm nervous. It's messy.

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How Mature Is Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Practice?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In our book, Networked Nonprofit , we describe the principles for becoming a networked nonprofit – a nonprofit that is simple, agile, transparent, and works more like a network than an isolated fortress. The organization has strong capacity in content creation as well as repurposing or remixing across channels.

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A Fine Blog!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" Her forthcoming book Momentum: IgnitingSocial Change in the Connected Age takes an indepth look at the topic. Her focus is on "the ways that digital tools, particularly social media, are enhancing our connectedness to one another and our ability and willingness to work for the collective social good."

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Fine writes about in her book Momentum. The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

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I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Of course, museums shouldn't let marketing desires, popular opinion, or cultural forces drive all decisions. This is prejudicial treatment.

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