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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

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This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. But the best participatory projects don't suffer from this problem, because they solicit visitors' contributions toward a very specific outcome. The project is designed to scale.

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My Theory of Practice

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. 2 admin 07.11.08

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Mission Statement

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But, I have been following Michele Martin’s work on The Bamboo Project Blog with some interest. I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. My advising practice is much more about educating and helping people with concrete technology tools, and concrete projects. One of them, I’ll do now.

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What software freedom means to me

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I realize that I haven’t talked about this in a while, and I’m not sure I’ve actually ever articulated this completely on this blog. I think of myself as one of them (Besides working with NOSI , I’ve been involved in several projects over the years in varied capacities.) So here goes.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

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Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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Digital Museums Reconsidered: Exploring the Walker Art Center Website Redesign

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Not only did the Walker have the resources to create a major online project, they had the institutional coherence and focus to make it their primary website. It comes down to articulating your mission in a digital space. But the biggest reason that the Walker site is so unusual is its clarity of purpose.

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This guy is right on

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OOo Calc integrates really nicely with databases and stuff (I know that wasn’t too articulate, but I know what I know and not what I don’t. . * Macros are much more intuitive in whatever language Excel uses than in whatever it is that OOo Calc uses. Feel free to make a technologically accurate version of that sentence.)