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Mike Remixes My CC Entry

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mike is writing some great stuff on remix culture and creative commons license. Mike writes this post Avoid YouTube if You Wanna Remix and Mashup. Remember the aim is to have your content turn up in searches for media that is suitable for remix. He goes to muse about the differences in CC licensings and impact on remix culture.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold. While that in itself probably qualifies us as one of India's largest children's book publishers, when compared to the scale of the problem - over 300 million children in India - it is still a minuscule effort. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. s surroundings as a form of problem-solving. the ability to adopt alternative identities for the purpose of improvisation. the ability to meaningfully sample and remix media content. Performance ???

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

But the best participatory projects don't suffer from this problem, because they solicit visitors' contributions toward a very specific outcome. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world. You can also watch time lapse video of any frame being created.

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WeAreMedia: Reflections on Working Wikily - Getting out of the way

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." The wikispaces discussion feature on each page is great for brainstorming ideas, problem solving, or pre-writing. There are two ways to give feedback - onshore and off shore.

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

Some leaders are more conservative than I feared, and these people are alternately smug and desperate about maintaining their power. This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change. The problem is that my current audience is vocal and my future audience is silent.

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