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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice. How can we use back-channels as a progressive force at conferences?

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Pacific time and participate through Watchitoo with Twitter, Facebook, and social channels. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! This special Digital Storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TSDigs challenge in February. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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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. Content is also being added to the site through streams of aggregated content through the net2 tag. This site, and the Net?? The community is facilitated or sparkplugged by Chris Locke.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards. To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Anaheim Ballet has a YouTube Channel with over 130,000 channel views. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. They ask judges to self-define their art knowledge.

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