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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

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Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Osborn, an advertising executive, invented the latter process of “organized ideation” in the 1930’s and popularized the technique in several books he authored called “ Your Creative Power ” and “ Applied Imagination.”

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

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After a broad survey, Rick’s team defined three broad categories of public participation in scientific research: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. In collaborative projects, citizens collect data, but they also analyze results and draw conclusions in partnership with the scientists. Wiki users are often collaborators.

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Noodling Around Change Management and Social Media Adoption

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I did a mashup with social media framing. The five ways of thinking addressed by the model include different views on what the authors say, "why and how people or things change" (p. Joitske observes that the power of social media is more about the culture of openly sharing knowledge, collaboration, and engaging in co-creation.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Collaboration on student projects or other ways. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Create collaborative, student-authored resources. Hiring people.

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

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It was refreshing to see a wide array of projects and presentations that put sharing authority at the center of the visitor experience. Who's sharing authority and how? This multi-museum collaborative is undertaking a thoughtful process to tackle these issues. Sharing Authority.or Data is also getting stored in new places.

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

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Last month, I heard a talk by author Jonathan Salem Baskin about his soon to be published book, “ Histories of Social Media.&# The book looks at social media concepts and ideas, asks is this really new? The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal.

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Self-Identification and Status Updates: Personal Entrypoints to Museum Experiences

Museum 2.0

When you make an audio mashup, your voice is part of the mix. At the Lab, your profile is a simple cache of personal data you can draw on as collaborator, co-creating the exhibit content. They constitute a kind of mini-profile, frequently updated, which reflects the author's self-expression over time.

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