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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After a broad survey, Rick’s team defined three broad categories of public participation in scientific research: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. In collaborative projects, citizens collect data, but they also analyze results and draw conclusions in partnership with the scientists. Wiki users are often collaborators.

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Noodling Around Change Management and Social Media Adoption

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I did a mashup with social media framing. From the English book review : " In the third chapter, "Thinking about change in five different colors", Caluwé and Vermaak introduce their color model. The five ways of thinking addressed by the model include different views on what the authors say, "why and how people or things change" (p.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

NTEN

Mashups make me want to sing! Collaboration. You need IT folks who understand how data is structured, what queries are possible, how data modeling works. Close collaboration is always easier said than done. I want to eat statistics for dinner. I would marry a good data visualization. What about you?

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Community Funded Reporting : The news industry is dying but in its wake are new business models to support investigative journalism. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model? Will traditional nonprofits need to adopt new technologies and fundraising models as donors demand greater accountability for their funds?

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc). Collaborative Problem Solving - (working toether in teams - informal/formal to comlpete tasks and develop new knowledge. the ability to interpret and construct dynamic models of real-world. Circulations - shaping the flow of media (e.g. vlogging, and podcasting). Performance ???

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Think Like a Game Designer

Museum 2.0

I've always believed in prototyping at the simplest level possible, but when it comes to group dynamics we often argue that without a full-size model or the actual space, it's hard to see how people will really interrelate. Each person was given an "identity card" that featured a mashup of two faces smooshed together (see image at top).

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Joe Solomon, Guest Post: What's the Right Offline Event for Your Organization's Online Community?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My thinking: Social media conversations and online campaigns create whole new models for bringing together & powering the progressive movement. We need offline events to meet each other, bond eye-to-eye, and forge the collaborations that will make our social networks stronger, better connected, and ultimately transformative.

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