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What the Third Sector Can Learn from the Public Sector

NTEN

Participatory. Participatory. Again, if it's built with public money, the public has the right to use it. 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. Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent.

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A City and an Art Center Design the Future: Reflections on the Market Street Prototyping Festival

Museum 2.0

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (which she directs) teamed up with the San Francisco Planning Department and the Knight Foundation to host the Market Street Prototyping Festival. Over three days, 52 artist teams erected experimental projects along San Francisco''s biggest thoroughfare. A fitness trail for urban life.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. Provide digital infrastructure to the 150 – 250 organizations through a public-private partnership with Microsoft. Build the capacity of these NGOs and CSOs to use new media effectively through mentoring and coaching.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. conferences and public events around the world. Windy founded D.V.A.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8th.

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Community Science Workshops and Shared Authorship of Space: Interview with Emilyn Green

Museum 2.0

The first one was started in 1991 by a San Francisco educator, Dan Sudran, in his garage. At that point, we opened three new locations: Sanger , Greenfield , and a new San Francisco workshop in the Excelsior neighborhood because the Mission has changed so dramatically. What are they and where did they come from?

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

Journalism is really the act of informing communities so that they can make better decisions, that is part of the public service, informing communities so that together we can know where else we need to help." --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism.