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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This case study, " Using Network to Stop Genocide ," by Ian Boothe was published on Idealware a few days ago. Another point of intersection here for me is Henry Jenkins recently published 72-page white paper " Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century." Go read it.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also, for our Creative Commons licensed books to be remixed/repurposed by the community in whatever way they wish to. Flickr : Documentation of the work we do and also to upload our Creative Commons licensed illustrations so that they can be remixed/reused. (See See this blog post from Creative Commons ).

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

In the beginning, TechSoup’s Marnie Webb, Daniel Ben-Horin, and Billy Bicket created NetSquared to "remix the web for social change." which heralded a new, participatory web culture. " The year was 2005. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Sharing Power, Holding Expertise: The Future of Authority Revisited

Museum 2.0

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. And in a world where visitors want to create, remix, and interpret content messages on their own, museums can assume a new role of authority as "platforms" for those creations and recombinations. There are some emerging case studies for this.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. There have been several studies that show that creating a personal record of an experience and reviewing it later increases learning and retention of content. There are two parts to this.

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The Future of Authority: Platform Power

Museum 2.0

And in a world where visitors want to create, remix, and interpret content messages on their own, museums can assume a new role of authority as "platforms" for those creations and recombinations. There are some emerging case studies for this. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. Core Museum 2.0

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

Dream big, share it in the comments, and help this be a more productive study. If museum and library content is licensed, not owned, how can we work within those licenses to allow visitors to use and remix to their heart’s content? Meetings about the future end up being about the present. How do you plan for the future?

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