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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

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All too frequently, the grantmaker alone is determining, leading, and benefiting from MEL processes with no input or collaboration from the people, organizations or community impacted. The practice of participatory evaluation aims to disrupt power dynamics, and to generate knowledge as a result of collaboration.

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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The focus of Eugene's work with this network was to better understand its community, the most promising group practices, and have an open discussion that would facilitate learning and interaction among these leaders who were miles apart, spoke different languages, and had Internet access challenges. That's the vision for his company and work.

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Attention Nonprofit Wiki Users: Let's Desconstruct Your Wiki!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Perhaps you most likely remember this amazing deconstruction by John Udell of the Wikipedia entry on ??? It really helped you understand the inner workings of the collaborative construction of content on Wikipedia. One question I'm wondering myself - what does effective wiki facilitation really look like - literally.

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Campus Party H4SB — Hacking for Something Better Coming to US in 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There is major emphasis on what is possible when ingenuity, 11K gb internet connections and collaborative teams intersect. These are best of breed young hackers doing what comes naturally, incited and incented by blazing connections, motivated collaborators, cash reward challenges and future employers’ avid attention.

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Mapping Web2.0 Censorship: Access Denied Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This project will also track and explore the relationships between anti-censorship groups in different parts of the world who are collaborating to defend the right to access web 2.0 It will also facilitate collaboration between activists, allowing them to find each other, share tactics and strategies and experiences.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Second C: Collaboration. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just finished a presentation and later this afternoon will facilitate a workshop on strategy which will include the Romanian version of the Social Media Game. He told the story of the founding of wikipedia and the meaning of the Hawaiin word - quickly, quickly. He talked about the growth of wikipedia.

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