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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

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In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. Guests: Chris Burke (media artist, creator of This Spartan Life ) Eddo Stern (media artist, maker of Landlord Vigilante ) Alex Chan (creator of The French Democracy ). Machinima, derived from the words ???machine???

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

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The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

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The book includes a "Connected Quiz, a set of reflective questions that can help an activist think about how well they or their organization is connecting with others -- something to think about before jumping into the tools. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Circulations - shaping the flow of media (e.g.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

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Therefore, my new question in presentations about social media has been to ask: Is this new? Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. 2) Crowd Creation.

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The Magic Tweet: Crowdsourcing Opera Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Here is an example of an artistic program or creative process undertaken as a crowd and it isn't a cheap publicity stunt. This isn't the first time a classical music organization has turned to social media and crowdsourcing.