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I Like To Watch Feed

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. " Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future. It requires the ability to change our internal culture.

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Henry Jenkins discusses participatory media in Second Life

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just received my copy of Henry Jenkin's Convergence Culture which has been on my list ever since I heard him speak at the launch of the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning and Media Initiative. I listened to the audio feed of him talking to the kids, answering their questions. Is it just a fad?" " I don???t

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SXSW: Using Social Media to Accelerate Sustainability

Amy Sample Ward

Join us for a discussion and exploration of how social media are being used to accelerate our transition to a global sustainable culture. Publishing plust interactivity, participatory. The Great Sunflower Project: sign up, they send you seeds and you send in data about those feeding off the flowers. Rob Reed - Max Gladwell.

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Designing for Nonprofits: Our Commentary + Experience

Media Cause

The idea of including stakeholders in the process is often referred to as co-designing, or participatory design. But as we look to put donors first, and paint them as the heroes, we must also make sure that the stories we’re telling about the communities they’re helping aren’t feeding into stereotypes or tokenism in an unethical way. .

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Guest Post: Lessons Learned Designing a Mobile Game for Balboa Park

Museum 2.0

When I worked briefly with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative to conceptualize a mobile phone-based game to connect visitors to the park to its cultural institutions and history, I knew Ken would be the perfect person to make it happen. Lesson: An answer is like the proverbial fish: it only feeds someone for a day.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, Online social networking was just being born. Citizen journalism. Google Maps. Podcasting. Text messaging.

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The Art of the Social Web

Have Fun - Do Good

In his post Andrew asks, How do professional arts organizations foster and encourage participatory practice in our communities, and is that part of their job? Or are we working along a spectrum of cultural opportunities that demands we focus even more narrowly on our point in that spectrum? Next time I'll take part sooner!

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