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Blueprint Book Club Part 2: Museums as Battlefields in the History Wars

Museum 2.0

This post is the second in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. The NMA was accused of presenting a “black armband” view of Australia’s history (i.e., How would the competing views of Dutch history have played out?

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The Future (and a Little History) of Network Neutrality

NTEN

It all started in 2008, when Comcast deliberately slowed Internet traffic for BitTorrent, a file-sharing site, and the Federal Communications Commission told the ISP it can't do that. It's quickly becoming a hot political issue in Washington, divided right down party lines. . Become educated on the issue. Think it can't happen?

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A Revolution in Documentary Film

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This revolution in artistic process is taking place across disciplines, including documentary films. Will a networked approach to documentaries , particularly those that are about social change issues become the norm in our connected world? Guest Post by Vincent Stehle. But that is only the jumping off point for the inquiry.

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Online Communications that Don't Suck

NTEN

AIDS.gov is a national HIV initiative of the U.S. The wiki helps us avoid version control issues and allows us to keep a history of changes by author. HIV continues to be an important public health issue and at AIDS.gov, we want to ensure that we use our website and all available communication to their best advantage.

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The Joys of Google Grants, Part 2

Care2

In part one of this post, I discussed the first steps the National Women’s Law Center took when we initially received our Google Grant, and some of the challenges we faced getting started. Of the ten issue-based campaigns we started out with, we noticed that two of them ? were outperforming the others.

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Women of Color Resource Center: An Interview with Anisha Desai

Have Fun - Do Good

The following is an edited transcript of an interview I did with her on March 25th, 2008 for the Big Vision Podcast. Young women of color, what are the issues that are most important to them? We are based in Oakland, but we do work nationally, and in many cases globally, but our funding is always under constraints.

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Bryant Terry: Eco-chef, Food Justice Activist, Author of Vegan Soul Kitchen

Have Fun - Do Good

He is currently a Fellow in the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, which is a national project of the W.K. At the end of 2008, I initiated a new project called the Grow. We already spend fewer dollars on our food than -- I don't know about most -- but many industrial nations. Kellogg Foundation. Grub Project.