Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

Here's the email announcement from Alan Levine: The NMConnect Visual Symposium will be the largest collaborative art event ever created in Second Life! Connect the Dots with hundreds of artists as we Illuminate and innovate together to weave new networks. Download NMConnectCallforArtists.pdf.

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Second Life Arts Life Artist 50

Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

Games structure participation in vital civic actions like voting, budgeting, advocacy, movement-building, solving major challenges, and simulations for disaster preparedness. (BS). Farmville and FoldIt (showing the architecture of the AIDS virus) are related in terms of collaboration, crowdsourcing solutions through social play. (JD).

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Game Lesson Create New York City 55

Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2009

And their unique structure and bottom-up approach offers some instructive lessons for museums that want to really embrace visitors and members as co-creators of the institutional experience. Their numbers are growing, and the wiki-based list of worldwide hackerspaces includes as many "planned" as "active" institutions.

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Museum North Carolina San Francisco Structure 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding. How to structure crowd sourced philanthropy based on voting or feedback depends on the outcomes of the project, a theory of change.

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Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

But last week, I took a new job with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, working on a very different kind of project involving collaborative distributed exhibit design. So what does this collaborative platform look like? We’re using a combination of a wiki-style website and a Second Life presence to make it happen.

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Open Source Museum Game Open 22

Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

Community and opportunities for collaboration can be lost when it is just you sitting down to work each day. I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in. Chris Messina: My name is Chris Messina.

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Green Interview San Francisco Environment 40