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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

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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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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

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So, you want to build a MashUp? Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. NpTech Conversations.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

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Read More » Collaboration for Funders: Understanding the Challenges Joe Anderson in Influence 1 Jul 2010 This is part two of a series on online collaboration for grantmakers. In part one, we looked at determing the value of creating a collaboration community.If

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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. Search through YouTube for a video to illustrate a blog post or to write about. A wiki is a collaborative website and writing tool that allows people to easily contribute, delete and edit content. Hiring people.

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

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The panel will cover the various tools (YouTube, Twitter, Facebook) that are being used to elevate protests, examine the benefits and drawbacks of the internet's involvement and whether social media makes protests more or less efficient, and discuss the issue of authenticity in information dissemination. Submitted by David Neff.

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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.&# Each week they asked their Twitter followers to contribute a movement and then the company performed them and posted a video on YouTube. And, a symphony orchestra, made headlines when they crowdsourced musician auditions for the Youtube Symphony orchestra.

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The Magic Tweet: Crowdsourcing Opera Analysis

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A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Typically these are collaborations between the crowd and individuals guiding them. This isn't the first time a classical music organization has turned to social media and crowdsourcing. How do you evaluate this?