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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

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Imagine sitting around a conference table planning an upcoming project that involves user-generated content. Another thinks that users should not only contribute content but also have a hand in determining how it is used. No one model is better than the others. What does this have to do with nonprofits and social media?

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How KaBOOM! Is Using a Networked Approach To Scale Social Change

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has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. While the idea of giving away a non-profit model itself isn’t new, KaBOOM! s current offline business model hasn’t transferred to the online environment.

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The Participatory Nonprofit?

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"There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." According to recent study from Pew Internet and American Life project, more than one-half of teens have created media content and roughly one-third have shared ocntent. More here ). *

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Museums and Flickr

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The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. permission but may no longer have access to the subject to obtain a model. photographer, but not necessarily the model???s organization that there is no model release it is their responsibility to. In this post, I???m

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

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Learn how shortcodes, custom social networks, and mashups are delicious. We need to hack the model for accessibility tools! submitted by Matthew Zachary Social media healthcare means a revolution in consumer-driven and patient-focused content delivery. With snacks! Convergence of Social Health Media With Youth Culture.

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Think Like a Game Designer

Museum 2.0

What stuck out about this experience was putting the focus on the interpersonal gameplay and interactions rather than the content experience. Each person was given an "identity card" that featured a mashup of two faces smooshed together (see image at top). We didn't watch to see if people could "figure it out" or "get the answer."

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

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There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# 2) Crowd Creation.

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