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February Cause Awareness: Black History Month

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Some online e-commerce stores like Etsy spotlight Black-owned businesses or have a special tag you can search through to find Black-owned businesses to shop at. Learn about Black history The origins of Black History Month are rooted in education, making learning an integral part of any Black History Month celebration!

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Don't Take My Folders Away! Organizing for GTD

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Is the title of a research study by William Jones, Ammy Jiranida Phuwanartnurak, Rajdeep Gill, and Harry Bruce that explores the way people organize information in support of projects ("teach a course,' "plan a wedding", etc.) I found this research paper via Christian Crumlish's notes on Social Information architecture, sorting and tagging.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The second part of the morning included a brief presentation about the principles of social media strategy based on what I’ve been teaching for the past 5 years. Tags: Training Design. Social Media Game: Scaling Small Group Learning Exercises. Geoff Livingston did a great live blog post on the content.

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Quick Hit: Upcoming Experiments and Workshops

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We tried this at the Denver Art Museum last week, and it is incredibly challenging—you can’t just put out a box of chocolates and expect people to talk. We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Do you we teach coders the basic tenets of public diplomancy or vice versa? We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c Those people come back and have greater depth of understanding. We identified four finalists.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

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Adam Lerner shared the story of Superheroes , a storefront in downtown Denver operated by a web designer who wanted to invite people to use his space to hang out, read magazines, and make things via letterpress. They are meant to teach ways of learning and processing information, not to solicit specific content.

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What's the True Cost of Live Facilitation?

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The guides pull you, teach you, challenge you, and entertain you. A few years ago at ASTC, Eddie Goldstein from the Denver Museum of Natural Science spoke about a very simple, highly effective element they added to their in-gallery offerings; a roving staff person with a laptop computer connected to the internet.