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What the Third Sector Can Learn from the Public Sector

NTEN

Participatory. Collaborative. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Participatory. Collaborative. Their theory is that anything they build has to be built open source, so that the taxpayers can access and use any innovations. Transparent.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. site in which people could interact and collaborate with each other to create a virtual community. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. It’s called Orion’s Arm , which is a huge collaborative science fiction world-building project. This is very cool. Be Helpful.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. Gardner admitted that at certain points the non-linear and emergent collaborative planning process was ambiguous and frustrating. Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Gaming the Talkback Experience with the Signtific What If? Machine

Museum 2.0

Jane McGonigal and the folks from IFTF have released a new future-casting game/collaborative experience called Signtific Lab. In other words, a new kind of talkback board or participatory educational program. What excites me is that Signtific provides a very deliberate framework that prioritizes collaborative thinking and dialogue.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. Again, shows me the power of open content and open source thinking. Introduction. The Tips.