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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. Participatory processes often (and sometimes unintentionally) restructure the product. That''s expected.

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MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning Briefing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I would love to hear Howard Gardner talk about digital learning. MacArthur Foundation will make a major announcement that will generate a greater understanding of the impact technology and digital media has on today's youth. "Digital Learning" Press Briefing and Panel Discussion. The John D. and Catherine T.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 4: Adventures in Self-Publishing

Museum 2.0

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation & Workshop at Amplified Leicester

Amy Sample Ward

Amplified Leicester is managed by the Institute of Creative Technologies, De Montfort University in partnership with the DMU Centre for Social Action and Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre. The project is commissioned and supported by NESTA , an independent body with a mission to make the UK more innovative.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

This special digital storytelling episode of Nonprofits Live will include secrets from the pros for nonprofits submitting photo and video stories to the TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge in February. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Thomas Grasty - Stroome.

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Ze's work has always gone beyond the digital. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“It depends on whether this is the beginning of a trend or an extremely exceptional response to an extremely exceptional situation,” said Rebecca MacKinnon, co-founder of Global Voices, a network of bloggers worldwide, and author of “Consent of the Networked,” a book that addresses free speech in the digital age.”

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