Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Second Life — TechSoup formed the Nonprofit Commons five years ago as a virtual community of nonprofits, thriving and building complex 3D interactive environments and hosting regular meetings with streaming media and a wide variety of participatory options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

I was part of the first-day that featured mobile expert Amy Gahran and Lee Raine , Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. 1: Broadband Internet (Expansion of broadband). #2: Participants were a mix of CEOs and senior staff. This blog post is a summary of my notes from the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Here’s what he said about the Networked Nonprofit: “The Internet means never having to ask permission before trying something new. Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2011

But it will be shown in documentary footage in pretty much every other format: in limited theatrical release, on DVD, in short clips on the Internet and even via podcast on mobile devices. The recent passing of iconic protest singer Gil Scott Heron reminds us, as he so memorably sang, “The revolution will not be televised.” Perhaps not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. skills like how to search the Internet, how to manage email, how to build a simple web page with HTML, and other good stuff. I was teaching Web1.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2008

So, replacing that quill pen with a mouse, imagine that you have to power to redesign American democracy for the Internet Age. Submit your essay, tell us how to make America better, stronger, more inclusive and participatory. What would you do? But the collection wouldn't be complete without reading your thoughts on this, too!

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Global Voices is the leading participatory media room for voices from developing countries around the globe. I remember first coming across it back in 2005 when it was just a simple blog hosted at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. They've just launched their online fundraising campaign to keep the world talking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2010

So, what better metaphor for this is to deconstruct the scare house by riding it with an expert in participatory exhibit design as my colleague, Nina Simon, who writes the Museum2.0 Here’s one from the early 1990’s when nonprofits were first adopting email and other Internet tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2009

How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. Steve's book is due out in December, 2009, and while it doesn't focus exclusively on nonprofits (or one camera), judging from the sneak peek at the draft - it's a must read. Editing Software. The camera comes with some editing software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

As a blogger and social media maker, I have a strong interest in the future of my work and participatory culture. He's only 8, but was able to not only tell his classmates about beavers, but also told them why and how he can use those photos from the Internet! I taught him the four different licenses. He's only 8 too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet. For decades, this has been the reality of their lives, and they strongly believe that the Western world and its citizens have a similarly controlling relationship between individuals and government.”

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. They’ve just released a beta version (sorry, Mac only, for once) of a new platform for internet video, called DTV. This is very cool.

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Forum One

APRIL 2, 2010

This point was addressed by one of the panelists, Dr. Alan Rosenblatt from the Center for American Progress, who referenced a Wall Street Journal story indicating that worldwide more internet users communicate via social media channels than email. cannot be ignored by the government and military.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

Save the Internet | Rock the Vote. I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox. Additional Resources: Save the Internet. Article in TechSoup by Henry Kumagai " What Will Tiered Internet Access Mean for NPOs. The project wiki is here and he has a del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

How do you optimize your media (like video and photographs) to upload quickly and take up less time (and money spent) at an Internet cafe? I just discovered a new site called " Great Nonprofits " another participatory philanthropy site. The question forced me to reflect on my experience last summer.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 29, 2008

The center of the VRM hub-bub seems to be Project VRM at Harvards' Berkman Center for Internet and Society. And indeed, we find VRM being discussed on sites like "The Social Customer" blog by Christopher Carfi, which is trying to evolve models of customer service and marketing that assume a more empowered and participatory customer base.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

While it would not be as "raw" as initially envisioned, urging as many agencies as possible to produce actual queryable APIs with the data would have made more possibilities for truly creative visualizations and allowed new participatory applications to be built. Open Standards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2005

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. And we know that the creativity and commitment of the non-profit world is crucial to achieving the creative and community potential of the Internet itself. What is it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The topics include: Control and Transparency: How comfortable is the foundation with the participatory nature of Web 2.0 I ndividual Giving: What are the implications of the rise of Internet-empowered individual giving for foundations? communications? And how are the challenges inherent in the Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

At Beyond Broadcast Conference keynote, Henry Jenkins , used the term " astro turf " to refer to "participatory media" made by big business. Our challenge in the near future is to get ahead of the "hot new thing to do on the internet" and apply its utility to our campaign goals. It's the real thing.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 8, 2009

the Internets, etc.). Other government agencies are going through this process, spurred by President Obama's directive on Transparency and Open Government , which demands that Executive Branch agencies be more Transparent, Participatory, and Collaborative. On Wednesday, The U.S. in Government.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The call was from Mercedes Martinez and Zachary Kent, the people behind an internet radio show called Dial-A-Stranger. I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. Dial-A-Stranger is what it sounds like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC. We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

The research was conducted entirely online, using a multi-media platform and over Internet. whether the collaboration is across sectors, disciplines and organizations, or within a given organization, with participatory decision-making and teamwork. A premise for this work is that we need to be better at working collaboratively???whether

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

We have different conversations on the phone than we do in person or in internet chat rooms. Tags: Talking to Strangers design participatory museum usercontent interactives. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 10, 2008

Because the reality is in that room of 65 people, only a handful had participated in one of the high-functioning models of civic discourse presented--calling in to a radio forum, bridging political differences through internet chat. Tags: participatory museum. More on what that could mean and how it can happen in the weeks ahead.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

" The internet: is it changing the way we think? Technology | The Observer – "American writer Nicholas Carr's claim that the internet is not only shaping our lives but physically altering our brains has sparked a lively and ongoing debate, says John Naughton. It turns out, most of them come from old-school media.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 26, 2009

Visitors can take their cards home and review their pledges (and see others' pledges) on the Take Action website , where you can also make pledges directly via the internet. The handwritten pledge is an intelligent starting point for creating merged digital/analog participatory experiences.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 31, 2009

The big advent of freelancing, since the Internet, is that instead of snail-mailing my story ideas to editors, I would email them. And that's like the great thing that the Internet brought me was email! The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

s a graphical layer that has the potential to link together many of the 2D media that we currently access via the Internet. principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. It is a social space, a virtual space that can be used to model things not easily modeled in reality, and it???s way to the future?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

How do you devise a future strategy for a diffuse Internet-based global movement? Ultimately, she realized that the highly participatory process resulted in a robust strategic plan that articulated goals and initiatives through 2015 to stabilize infrastructure, increase participation, improve quality, and encourage innovation.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

But comments on the gamers' forum like: An internet collaborative [sic] art display in a national museum? Ghosts of a Chance is a great example of the museum leveraging a niche community (ARG-ers) to energize and provide seed content for participants who are new to participatory gaming. Is it me, or is this very frigging cool!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. Looking at using some of the free tools on the internet? Availability from any computer with an Internet connection (i.e. It shouldn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. One key point is that Internet bolsters strong ties directly and indirectly. All those tweets about what you had for breakfast that everyone makes fun of?

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