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Dancefloor and Balcony: What I learned about emergent online collaboration from Eugene Eric Kim

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The intent of the exercise (besides getting us to move around) was to help reflect and learn about self-organizing group collaboration. The instructions for the exercise are: Get in a circle. To create an environment where the network can learn from each other requires intentional modeling. (4) 4) Simplicity Scales.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

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Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older. This means that teens are not necessarily more savvy or more interested than other groups in engaging in communities of practice around content experiences.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. library, and nonprofit environments is mainly due to the benefits offered. Step 1: Find People. Hiring people.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

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The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative. Think of how Wikipedia works.

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