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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

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blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. For example, the #givelist tag aggregated all the suggestions from Twitter and then created this site. This takes some facilitation. #4change is a regular chat about social media change.

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Notes About Mobile, Digital Trends, and Social Media Leadership from Knight Digital Media Center Workshop

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Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. ” Chelsea took a photo with her Smartphone and posted it on the Reddit, a community aggregation site where content is ranked and rated.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

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Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions.

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Traveling Couches and other Emergent Surprises Courtesy of an Open Platform

Museum 2.0

To that end, our exhibitions are full of participatory elements. the most powerful evidence of it happening is when our active role as designers/facilitators becomes invisible. To me, this is an example of how the aggregation of participatory practices fundamentally changes the role that an organization has in its community.

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

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Our job as organizational communicators lies in trying to facilitate a larger conversation by providing the means for people to share, perhaps initiate conversations, and highlight the great work and thoughts of others. Movements involve people, not Marketing, PR, Comms, Public Affairs, etc.,

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Netsquared Project: The Step Before Community

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is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. The community is facilitated or sparkplugged by Chris Locke. Content is also being added to the site through streams of aggregated content through the net2 tag. This site, and the Net??

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. Now that the Challenge is over, what are your big milestones and goals?

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