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Data as Decision in Grantmaking

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Datamaking, as an aspect of knowledge building , can even contribute to civic engagement and participatory democracy. We are taught to create an organizational chart or a program activity graphic or a network diagram of organizations needed to address an issue like homelessness or educational equity.

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Ideation Conference Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Each element of the conference facilitates a different mode for engaging the content as well as fellow participants. Mark Horvath shared how he searches on Twitter for the words "homeless" and either educates or empowers. I'm always up for a conference that has been designed to be participatory and offers a creative format.

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10 Ways to Build a Better Community Brainstorming Meeting

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Not surprisingly, a different focus group of social service providers and homeless adults had a very different set of concerns about downtown. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. not feeling "welcome") or don't mention their safety concerns at all.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. Tagging helps found things stay found as well as facilitate the wisdom of the group. Adding a new data point to it. Another example. Del.icio.us

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Program Comfort: Events that Draw People Out

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tracking an agent, and inevitably end up interrogating homeless people and perfect strangers—engaging in social behavior they would never consider in “real” life. Tags: programs participatory museum comfort. At adult surveillance workshops, visitors hit the streets of D.C. When have you seen it work, and when have you seen it fail?

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