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The Nonprofit Book We’ve Been Waiting Four Years To Read Is Finally Here: New Power

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The concepts around connectivity and leadership were synergistic with the concept of networked leadership that Allison Fine and I wrote about in the Networked Nonprofit , published in several years before. The article caught fire – not only in nonprofit and philanthropy circles – but also business, government, and beyond.

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Military Communications in the Age of Social Media

Forum One

Earlier this week, I addressed the topic of social media in the military and government on a panel at The Army and The Navy Club in Washington, DC. From my perspective, the central theme of the panel was that social media is a permanent fixture of government communications.

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Some Reflections About Civil Society 2.0 and Why I’m Not On A Plane To Tunisia Right Now

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They are accustomed to thinking that a government controls its citizens — that a film or documentary cannot be produced without government approval. ” It also brings up issues about the r ole of social media and a connected society for delicate diplomacy. ” Widad E.

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Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century in 714 Words (or less)

Museum 2.0

We have to privilege our visitor/users over our governing stakeholders. Real artifacts are not suffering with the rise of digitization; they are gaining new lives in personal memory sites, blogs, and collection-based social networks. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Her post places an emphasis in looking at SL as simply virtuality (read this too) not social networking - as did Clay Shirky. If Danah is so deeply rooted in social spaces, like MySpace and others, it???s To me the big difference lies in the integration of social. s no wonder she does not see SL as a next step.

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Growth Hacking Your Mission With People Power

Connection Cafe

It is held by few… New power” – that is, the power that is driving social change today — “operates differently, like a current. It is made by many; it is open, participatory and peer-driven.” Today, your next door neighbor is seen as just as credible a source of information as an academic, government, business or even an NGO.

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