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Connecting the dots: Fighting for equity through a data partnership 

Candid

Skeptical because Candid is a nonprofit that describes its work ethic and culture as similar to that of the tech sector, which could mean either mission-driven with an innovative mindset, or appropriating the rhetoric of social movements while engaging in extractive practices.

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Reimagining Museums with Latin America Leading the Way

Museum 2.0

El Museo Reimaginado is a collaborative effort of museum professionals in North and South America to explore museums' potential as community catalysts. We met in Medellin--a city where cultural institutions were instrumental in turning crime and fear into hope and beauty. Birds flew through the proceedings.

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Collecting Data in Low Resource Areas: How to Get Started

NTEN

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? That means collecting the data at the source, aggregating the data, verifying the data, creating meaningful reports, and analyzing the data for decision-making.

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Traveling Couches and other Emergent Surprises Courtesy of an Open Platform

Museum 2.0

We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. It's not unusual for me and our public programming staff members to have several short interactions every week with newcomers who walk in the door with idiosyncratic visions for cultural engagement.

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Steven Johnson Key Note at Serious Games Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lost is one of the first shows that has been structured as a game. Systems thinking - need to use to think about ecosystems, cultural systems, rich profound form of thought. distributed collaboration - building worlds together. distributed collaboration - building worlds together. Beware of the sudden collapse experience?

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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Summary: Followed by a more detailed explanation. Situation : We are living in a time of a major shift in culture. If the new story could be aggregated and given momentum, the shift will take place sooner. . To do this we have to add our trust and our power to aggregate the right kind of stories. .

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Becoming Generous Thieves: Notes from the Museums in Conversation Keynote

Museum 2.0

Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape. This isn’t just a change in youth culture. It’s a change that affects everyone.

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