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The Nonprofit Book We’ve Been Waiting Four Years To Read Is Finally Here: New Power

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. This way of working requires a different, more participatory leadership model and mindset that Allison Fine and I first wrote about in The Networked Nonprofit and others have written about called “networked leadership.” It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven.

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. But overall, this is a model project that starts with an outcome, not an activity.

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Introducing Community Participation Bootcamp at the MAH

Museum 2.0

This new, experimental training is a hands-on deep dive into the MAH’s model. More about Community Participation Bootcamp We're offering Community Participation Bootcamp as part of a broader exploration of ways the MAH might share our model with others. Tour MAH participatory exhibitions and shadow MAH community events.

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Notes on Structure Lab: Legal and Financial Models for Social Entrepeneurship

Museum 2.0

Like many people in the arts, I'm interested in new models that help people combine mission-driven work with an entrepreneurial spirit. to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept. A company in which employees are co-owners might translate well to a coop model. Tags: business models.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. Articulate what you can do for your organization, not what you can do generally. It was like getting paid to process the day in a lovely setting.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I don't think she is saying SL is a fad that will go away as other people without her depth of knowledge have articulated. Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. Come on, get real already. way to the future?