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Two Ways To Use Crowdsourcing for Face-to-Face Conferences

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Flickr Photo by Pierre-Alain Dorange. Crowdsourcing is the process of organizing many people to participate in a joint project, often in small ways. To generate ideas for questions and how to shape the conversation, the conference is using AllOurIdeas to query early childhood professionals in California for their questions.

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Share Our Strength Day of Service: Painting Murals in the School Cafeteria

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  I also talked to the volunteers about why they were so passionate about the issue of ending childhood hunger. Michael is a founding director and President of End Childhood Hunger. Below are my flickr photos from the mural projects in the cafeteria.    I interviewed him about his work on qik.

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Seven Ways to Make Sure Your Blog Gets Noticed

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Flickr Photo by alshepmcr. Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” 1 item of discussion was childhood obesity, which garnered 65 out of more than 400 tweets!

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

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Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Disruptive Model: School Project Crowdfunding. I could tell they were passionate, fired-up people who had great ideas for strategies and projects to help kids learn better,” said Best in a 2014 interview in Fast Company. Disruptive Model: Project Crowdfunding.

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How Can We Make Charitable Giving A Year-Round Habit?

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For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. Why not give a small donation to help a school in Africa, like Epic Change's projects or find a project in a corner of the world that is meaningful to you. And, yes they did !

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Get on the Bus: How Mass Transit Design Affects Participatory Potential

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posts called "Unusual Projects and Influences." I was not surprised that most of the images I found on Flickr related to buses showed an open door and a smiling driver. We have childhood memories of social bus rides. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences comfort. The driver provides live facilitation.

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Reflections on the Meyer Memorial Trust Workshop

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One of the scenarios focused on how to use social networking/media for a campaign around childhood obesity. Can you use the number of photos tagged as a metric for something on say, flickr. Privacy issues came up as especially related to young people's projects. I should have thought more about using my laptop and the projector.