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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

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Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. How do they affect the relationship between those on the stage and the audience? Jeffrey Veen calls this person an ombudsman for the audience.

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Guest Post: Oh Snap! Experimenting with Open Authority in the Gallery

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It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. We took a HUGE risk when we trusted our audience to help us create something cool, not only on the web, but in a museum. Visitor-contributed photos surround a collection piece in Carnegie Museum of Art's Oh Snap!

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

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This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! He has spoken publicly about his work to audiences at the Smithsonian, UC. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video. conferences and public events around the world.

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And the winner is. and some reflections on user-generated content

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That is important if you want to stream them with a tool like splashr. In addition, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has an excellent round up of advice on engaging audiences - which is necessary if you want to dip your toes into participatory media. For some big picture ideas on user generated content , see this resource.

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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

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As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. These folks are taking content to the biggest audiences in the field, often without the resources or support of other content creators. The work is 24/7 and the pay can be 7/11.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

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This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! This special Digital Storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TSDigs challenge in February. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. I see three significant internal reasons for homogenization in museums: As money gets tight, museums look for exhibits, program strategies, and revenue streams that are "proven" by other institutions' successes, rather than charting their own potentially risky path.

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