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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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Are Millennials the Answer to Partisanship?

Achieve

Achieve asked me why, in an age when politics seems to be more partisan than ever before, I think the next generation can be collaborative and forward thinking. This innate desire Millennials have to connect and leverage networks for a greater purpose demonstrates our ability to be collaborative over common goals. Steven Olikara.

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Learning in Public: To What End?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And in this networked world where social change and social movements can be seeded overnight with a viral video on YouTube, such public collaboration on complex social issues can have multiple benefits. This learning model has served us well, and above all it has been safe and comfortable. And finally, the so what?

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Great reads from around the web on June 6th

Amy Sample Ward

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." The price is lower than the recently reported $800 million figure, but still a formidable investment from the enterprise software giant, which is on a seemingly never-ending acquisition spree.

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Transmedia — Making Change Across Mediums

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I started out, the “broadcast, festival, and screenings” model of distribution dictated community engagement strategies that were more linear, and limited. Mark is an e-activist who interviews homeless men and women, and shares their stories across every digital medium he can find — YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Google +, you name it.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. New Models of Social Change. It is critical to engage in this change and lead where possible.

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Constructive Disruption: Advancing Social Change Through the Cloud

NTEN

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. New Models of Social Change. It is critical to engage in this change and lead where possible.

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