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My article in the December NTEN Newsletter is Live!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns. Looks like the last sentence got left out and wanted to make sure folks were pointed over the excellent article by Colin Delaney on Idealware on Participatory Media Tools which goes in much more detail about more tools and questions for nonprofit to consider.

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Patent Office goes Webby

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg. Now this sort of public participatory use of the web is going mainstream in an experimental program by the U.S. Here's the story from this morning's Washington Post.

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Nonprofits and Videoblogging: Janitors Own Words: Video from SEIU

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At Beyond Broadcast Conference keynote, Henry Jenkins , used the term " astro turf " to refer to "participatory media" made by big business. We agreed You Tube should be used to showcase video when we decided to experiment with other forms of "emerging technology" like Digg, Flickr, etc. It's authentic.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process. This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 5: Embracing

Museum 2.0

How many educators scan program evaluations and cast off the suggestions for improvement as aberrant grumps who "just didn't get it?" The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions. Look at your standard program evaluation.

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The Future of Authority: Platform Power

Museum 2.0

Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. In most museums, the professional experience of the staff--to preserve objects, to design exhibits, to deliver programs--is not based on content control. Ideas participatory museum usercontent. Core Museum 2.0

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Sharing Power, Holding Expertise: The Future of Authority Revisited

Museum 2.0

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. This post provides some useful perspective if you have these fears or are grappling with those who are fearful. Content control shouldn't.