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Guest Post: Lessons Learned Designing a Mobile Game for Balboa Park

Museum 2.0

When I worked briefly with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative to conceptualize a mobile phone-based game to connect visitors to the park to its cultural institutions and history, I knew Ken would be the perfect person to make it happen. Giskin Anomaly Right around Thanksgiving 2010 a strange story began to unfold in Balboa Park, San Diego.

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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

A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. And, in the case of Twitter Vote Report Twitter hashtags have been used for real-time participatory democracy. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. It is our turn to make history. General / #NI16 / @netimpact.