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Connected Citizens Report: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Listening to and consulting the crowds: Actively listening to online conversations and openly asking for advice. Decentralization and Individual Empowerment: As power is pushed to the edges, individuals will have an increasing ability to exert influence through social and broadcast media. These themes include: 1.

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival. But participatory cultures on the Internet take on a new quality, a new scale, and new capabilities.”. How can crowdsourcing help my nonprofit organization in Arizona?

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