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Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. has potential for global meetings, public educational events with participation, and remote engagement via webcam. Anyone who uses the designated tag on Twitter automatically becomes a part of the ongoing global conversation on that topic of interest.

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Henry Jenkins discusses participatory media in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. Technorati Tags: VECoP

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How Does Participation Work in Multi-Lingual Museums?

Museum 2.0

Many fabulous participatory projects--like the Johnny Cash Project or the Art Gallery of Ontario's " In Your Face "--don't require language. We're likely only a few years from being able to translate text and audio on the fly at a reasonable level of quality. So what are the options? What have you tried? What have you seen work?

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting.

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I Like To Watch Feed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As I am an avid viral video fan and spend way too much of my own time seeking and sorting out great video and audio about sustainability, science and activism (primarily) I started two tagged feeds called " I Like To Watch " for video and " Juicy Pods " for audio. Juicy Pods is not really running yet.

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Enabling a Participatory Culture using Creative Commons Licenses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Lately, a question on my mind is whether or not the concept of Networked Nonprofits is a global one as I’ve had the opportunity to share some of the ideas beyond the US borders in Kenya and UK. I think Pratham Books , an NGO in India, is a networked nonprofit.

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