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Beyond Broadcast: Wrap Up

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He made this point: But, participatory culture is changing the nature and topology of ours. We also get to make these works matter to one another: That we can surface and pass around the video or the prose so that it becomes a shared cultural object also changes the nature of the ours. Flickr Photo by Geoffrey and used with permission.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

I know that many people are uncomfortable with the growing culture of self-documentation, but no one should let their own aesthetic preferences dictate others' behavior without good reason. Of course, museums shouldn't let marketing desires, popular opinion, or cultural forces drive all decisions. This is prejudicial treatment.

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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

" Given the natural affinity between the principals of open source development -- peer production, collaboration, transparency -- and the goals and culture of many civic sector organizations, it makes sense for decision makers and tech staff to at least keep up to date on developments in the open source world. and licensing models.

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Generic license ). The 140 Characters conference is being re-broadcast in its entirety Monday, 6/29 and Tuesday, 6/30. And as long as changing the world is relegated to a sector, it will never happen. Photo by clyatt.jasper ( Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 2.0

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Who Owns Visitor Content?

Museum 2.0

Can you broadcast the photos to the web to be manipulated by web visitors in an “online exhibition”? On the other hand, it’s clunky, promotes a culture of fear, and may turn a lot of people away from individual activities unnecessarily. Can you use those snippets in a set piece for the traveling exhibition? Not likely. Restricted Use.

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog. We initially planned to provide a small number of live streams of the main sessions, as our local conference host said they could broadcast to about 50 streams. Previously, On NMC….