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CrowdStatus: Another Tool for Twitter Groups - How about Twitter Cafe Table?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I mentioned a twitter tool called Group Tweet that let you create groups on Twitter. Last week, Techcrunch reported on a privacy disaster that exposed people's private messages suggesting Group Tweet was the cause. Sus Nyrop, colleague from Denmark, mentioned a new tool called Crowdstatus. It's a personal project for him.

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My remarks just made at WIPO today

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Tags: print disabled print disabilities Benetech publishers blind SCCR Bookshare WIPO SCCR20.

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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right now there's a group of us trying to do some action learning about how to facilitate virtual collaborative work and learning in Second Life. I met with the group last week. It was amazing because the participants spanned the globe - literally - we had representatives from UK, Spain, Denmark, Asia, Austraila, and US.

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Peter Morville is A Woman in Second Life and Other IA Summit Secrets.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We briefly visited Boracay Island - designed by Nick Noakes and the home of communities in practice (and the Vecop group). You can see the back of my avatar in the green skirt, the male avatar is Josh Knauer , and my colleague, Susanne Nyrop from Denmark who we bumped into while wandering around Boracay Island.

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More Delightful Secrets: How Much Space Would You Give to an Exclusive Subset of your Audience?

Museum 2.0

Last week in Denmark, I experienced two more delightful hidden treasures, and they led me to this simple question: how much space and money would you devote to providing an exclusive experience within your institution? Tags: design inclusion.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. They may build their exhibits to accommodate the interests and needs of particular families and school groups they have known and worked with for years.

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The Living Library: Using Our Institutions as New Models for Civic Dialogue

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The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. A Living Library requires three kinds of people: Books, who openly and honestly represent certain stereotyped groups (i.e.

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