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An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

A Shared and Flexible Understanding of Impact As practitioners of and advocates for participatory philanthropy, we believe there’s a better way. Like many other activities in participatory philanthropy, this approach considers the process to be as important as the outcomes. It promotes mutuality instead of extraction.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Most of the content was (and is) user generated. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. was generating at the time, have a look at the original series of NetSquared blog posts. Google Maps.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Good Lord, another blog.

Museum 2.0

From curator-generated to user-generated. No museum is as flexible or participatory as the Web has become. Or, check out the wikipedia article , which is more readable. But the aspect that most excited me were the discussions about active participation in museums. The transition from "visitor" to "user." Should they be?

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. Bob argues that giving kids laptops enables more participatory, engaged learning.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most blog software can generate a RSS feed with the click of a button - you don??????t Step 8: Understand The Power Remix Culture and User-Generated Content. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. My experiment with user-generated content is here.

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