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Henry Jenkins discusses participatory media in Second Life

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Henry Jenkins made his first official appearance in Second Life visiting the Teen version, known as the "Teen Grid," where the Global Kids Island is hosting an event, A World Fit for Children Festival. So, I asked, "There has been a lot of criticism about Second Life lately, do you think we're wasting our time and money?

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Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. has potential for global meetings, public educational events with participation, and remote engagement via webcam. Anyone who uses the designated tag on Twitter automatically becomes a part of the ongoing global conversation on that topic of interest.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

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This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. questions surrounding globalization and social justice. His forthcoming.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

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This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Productions in 2006 to produce dramatic, engaging, life-changing documentaries, films and media in the San Francisco Bay Area and around the world. David Evan Harris - Global Lives. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video.

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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

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29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. It's been a been a busy few weeks! nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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The Engaged Leader: A Strategy for Digital Transformation

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With an increasingly mobile and global workforce, leaders need to use mobile tools to a communicate and manage. Participatory engagement invites people to answer a particular question or comment on a post. And, finally, with the rise of data and automated generation, leaders need to ask and answer questions with data, and faster.

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Social Media, Networks, and Data in Patient Healthcare Networks

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President, Global Hematology and Oncology, Celgene. Some are describing this shift in perspective as “participatory medicine” or “person-centric care.” She was one of the first patients to use video blogging through her nationally recognized YouTube channel to share her story and educate people about life with IBD.