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Four Steps to Ease You Into Social Web Activism

Have Fun - Do Good

Networking for Change. --Ivan Boothe, Organizing Rather Than Mobilizing: Using Social Networks for Constituency Building I'm filling in for a panelist on Sunday at the Bioneers Conference for the session , Alternet Presents: Social Media Activism/Web 2.0 CONSUME: Writers read, artists go to galleries, reporters watch the news.

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SXSW 2013 – Social by Global: Failure Is Not An F-Word!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” An AAR is an assessment conducted after a project or activity that allows everyone the team to discover and learn what happened and why. How can we improve the activity the next time we do it? The failure bow is what trapeze artists, acrobats, and other athletics do after a fall so they let got the fear of making a mistake.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These teens are actively involved what Jenkins calls "participatory culture" - a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one's creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices. .

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Is it time for a Social Reporter?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. Arts Wire, a project of NYFA, was originally intended to be a place for artists from all over the country to meet, exchange ideas, and talk about their work via the Internet.

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