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

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You may find some of these comments in the thoroughly engaging video as well, though some of the Ann’s more salient points didn’t make it into the footage. The 140 Characters conference is being re-broadcast in its entirety Monday, 6/29 and Tuesday, 6/30. That is a huge mistake.” starts around 16:46). “I

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

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Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: Reflections on the Personal Democracy Forum

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The other most compelling presentation of the conference was by Michael Wesch , from Kansas State, who talked about how YouTube and online video is shaping our notions of self and identity, allowing for new possibilities of connection and community. He’s most known for his YouTube video: The Machine is Us/ing Us viewed 10 million times).

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