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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Here are common trends and examples of areas where local news coverage has waned: Rural areas: Many local newspapers and broadcast stations in rural areas have closed or reduced their coverage due to declining readership and advertising revenue. This can include internships, research partnerships, and educational initiatives.

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Can Crowds Be Trained Like Seals?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Rennet Stowe That's the question that Stephen Downes raises after reading " Get Ready To Participate: Crowds and Governance" published on Henry Jenkins blog and written by Daren C. Brabham is focusing on how it can be used to supplement public participation to help government make better decisions. Brabham , a Ph.D.

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Community Technology Alliance: Helping Address Homelessness with Mobile Technology

Tech Soup

The goal of the project, called ConnectSCC , is to come up with a sustainable model for a mobile plan for homeless and low income people. While such a program currently exists as a government benefit, Lifeline, many homeless or severely low-income people haven't heard of it or aren't using it.

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Jon Husband, Guest Post: The New Realities of Engagement – Stories That Drive Action Planning and Implementation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As our Industrial Institutions fail to cope and to help people, we are seeing a new model for coping where people are connecting to each other to find networked and personal solutions to problems. . This new model is the antithesis of the model that it may replace. Clear signs of what this new model are all over the place.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. 12th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. We have gathered an outstanding group of field experts to teach how to build and sustain this kind of governance. Governance / @usdsoles. Governance. Leadership / #AMI16 / @NPL_Alliance. Leadership. Jan 13 - 15. Communications.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. SL is not some new revolutionary model that has never been seen before. broadcaster VRML world projects in 96 called the Mirror (BT, BBC and others).

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Becoming Generous Thieves: Notes from the Museums in Conversation Keynote

Museum 2.0

I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it. We aren’t reaching all the audiences we’d like to. We’re not essential parts of every community.

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