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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.) Wiki users are often collaborators.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Brainstorming Sessions for Nonprofit Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Brainstorming can be done as a solo activity or group or collaborative brainstorming. Generate ideas, either in an unstructured way (anyone can say an idea at any time) or structure (going round the table, allowing people to pass if they have no new ideas) or have people brainstorm ideas individually and then share them. Conclusion.

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Making Smarter Decisions: Five Business Intelligence Myths

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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. 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.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

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Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Create collaborative, student-authored resources. In thinking about tagging, flickr, and rss tools, what are some ways that you can collaborate with others to create content or have your students create content? In most cases simple syntax structure is used. Hiring people.

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Think Like a Game Designer

Museum 2.0

It had a very simple structure. Each person was given an "identity card" that featured a mashup of two faces smooshed together (see image at top). For example, he created a game for the retreat called "Faces in the Crowd" which was designed to encourage participants to meet each other.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

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Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# How to structure crowd sourced philanthropy based on voting or feedback depends on the outcomes of the project, a theory of change. The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal.

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Self-Identification and Status Updates: Personal Entrypoints to Museum Experiences

Museum 2.0

When you make an audio mashup, your voice is part of the mix. At the Lab, your profile is a simple cache of personal data you can draw on as collaborator, co-creating the exhibit content. Each of these questions reflects the unique structure, usage, and content of each service. Yammer asks, "What are you working on?"

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