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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Second, we looked at the problems that the market currently faces, lack of scale, lack of languages, lack of content, lack of reach and expensive distribution channels. Channels used: Twitter, Skype, Blog. Channels used : Scribd, Blog, Flickr. So, our Twitter friend went offline and recorded a book in their Delhi studio!

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. An edited version of the talk can be heard on SoundCloud , the presentation is on SlideShare , and the video is available on Youtube on the CITRIS channel. Want to learn more? spanhidden. netsquared digital divide'

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Netsquared Project: The Step Before Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

is an invitation into the marvelous, messy world of the Internet as a participatory, interactive community: a community created by its users. What we do know is that both the online and offline work of every non-profit can be enhanced by a dynamic online community in which organizations and users support one another.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My co-author, Allison Fine and I found many great examples of successful activism using these tools as part of multi-channel campaigns in our book The Networked Nonprofit. Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

If museums get involved in these online-offline partnerships, we can bring new audiences through our doors, familiarize them with museum-going in a comfortable way, and reap the benefits of their online musings about their real-life experiences. Projects participatory museum. marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Vote Now: Ten Sessions We Want to See at NTC

Care2

In this workshop, we'll focus on all aspects of designing high-value, engaging, and participatory content that creates a partnership with your fans. A true evangelist is moved to create, is a seamless co-creator with your organization, and motivated spreader of content. How much better?

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Are communication channels clear? So let folks know, this is the current structure, this is the current communication channels, and then we’ll check in with you to make sure it still works for you and adjust as we need. How do we do this well?