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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Amira Achouri, from an NGO in Tunisia, observed, “As the communications landscape gets denser, more complex, and more participatory, the networked population is gaining greater access to information, more opportunities to engage in public speech, and an enhanced ability to undertake collective action.

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Amplifying Female Voices: Strategies for Equitable and Inclusive Grantmaking

sgEngage

Participatory grantmaking has been a big part of the Boston’s Women’s Fund since its founding. So, the organization created a space specifically for the younger people in their community to nominate causes and have agency over some of the grantmaking decisions. Don’t consider this a stagnant process. Consider this a continual process.”

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language. I thought I’d share a few quick insights and tips that I learned for others who may be preparing for doing tech training internationally and want to use participatory techniques.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible. The project's implementation keeps changing, and I can't decide whether it is getting better or just different.

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Building Community: Who / How / Why

Museum 2.0

In some ways, we do a good job engaging people who reflect our whole County. If we want to reflect the identities of our community, we’ve got to focus on changing that. We think about this redefinition of affinity not just in terms of our programming but our internal structures as well. Our visitors are about 8% Latino.

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Growth Hacking Your Mission With People Power

Connection Cafe

Growth hacking: a process of rapid experimentation to identify the most efficient ways to grow a business (or cause!). For causes, this can range from increasing conversion rates by testing simple design tweaks, to nailing rapid response and raising $24M in a weekend. It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.”

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Cause Camp 2017. Cause Camp 2017. 11/28/2016.