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Connected Citizens Report: The Power, Peril, and Potential of Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Decentralization and Individual Empowerment: As power is pushed to the edges, individuals will have an increasing ability to exert influence through social and broadcast media. We will be influenced by what our connections think and information production and distribution will become more participatory.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

During the selected weekly program -- called Heka Heka Vijijini, which means "busy busy in the village" in Kiswahili -- broadcasters announced an upcoming competition that asked for “the best story of how you’re using the knowledge you’ve gained from this radio program in your life.” Making radio more accessible in Ghana.

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Cocktail Party Participation: Revisiting Twitter

Museum 2.0

I thought that Twitter was for broadcasting—a different but related kind of broadcasting from blogging. But now that I’m a Twitter user, I realize that Twitter is not (mostly) about broadcasting. If I told you I'd created a participatory website in which 0.3% You are broadcasting to a network, not an audience.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors.

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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). way to the future?

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

and discover how to reach your audiences more directly through social and digital media, while still landing placements through the national press or your local newspapers and broadcast stations. Join us in Washington, D.C., You'll learn to embrace technology and find out how to put it to work for your institution. Communications.

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

According to Daren Brabham, crowdsourcing consultant and author of Crowdsourcing: A Model for Leveraging Online Communities , crowdsourcing is the organization of online communities to utilize their combined resources. But participatory cultures on the Internet take on a new quality, a new scale, and new capabilities.”.

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