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Nonprofit Disruption: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

View more documents from Working Wikily. We do this not only to stay in the spirit of the participatory engagement styles that are now emerging, but also because the findings represent only the present moment in a story that is far from concluding. DISRUPTION: Evolving Models of Engagement and Support. and James L.

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

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For example, in post-earthquake Haiti, Dd trained and empowered local women to track and document incidents of gender-based violence. The example Jacobi cited was Digital Democracy's work in Chiapas , where villagers used cameras to document their community, in order to fight evictions by their local government.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. But what about visitors?

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My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm hoping that video blogging can be spread to the nonprofit sectors - as a way for organizations to tell their stories and document their work. We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more. Where do I find more information?

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. Over 13,000 photographs were submitted by 102 photographers at the fifteen different institutions, documenting about 6,200 pieces of art. The project's implementation keeps changing, and I can't decide whether it is getting better or just different.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. Tourism Campaigns or celebrate a place or county or state.

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