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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofit Professionals To Begin 2018 with Clarity

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I also did a far amount of virtual training, including developing a new workshop on virtual facilitation and I also launched a series of micro-learning courses with Nonprofit Ready on personal productivity and organization culture topics.

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Notes About Mobile, Digital Trends, and Social Media Leadership from Knight Digital Media Center Workshop

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Lee Rainie, Director, Internet & American Life Project, Pew Research Center took us through the impact that the use of online digital tools is having on us personally, professionally, and society. His presentation was called “Personal, Portable, Participatory, and Pervasive.”

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Nonprofits and Videoblogging: Janitors Own Words: Video from SEIU

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At Beyond Broadcast Conference keynote, Henry Jenkins , used the term " astro turf " to refer to "participatory media" made by big business. Anyone who has ever watched a broadcast news program (especially those owned by Newscorp) have heard of You Tube or MySpace. Well, this example is no astro turf.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

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Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

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To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. Of course, museums shouldn't let marketing desires, popular opinion, or cultural forces drive all decisions. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors.

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Pointing at Exhibits, Part 2: No-Tech Social Networks

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She can choose to "send" her favorites to individuals, or to broadcast them to the whole network of people using the system. Of course, the riskiness of the exchange also makes stranger-to-stranger pointing quite rare. What "no-tech" visitor actions or interrelations reflect your participatory goals?