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How grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients can do great things together with data and evaluation

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Studying (and implementing) community-based participatory research methods. __. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. __. Not all programs and outcomes are identical, but very few are entirely sui generis. Sharing responsibility for building the relationship.

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Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Only measure impact, not process. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. Do numbers only matter? The only valid data is quantitative data.

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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Dublin, Ireland: VR for Social Impact. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Mississauga, Ontario: Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo. Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Las Vegas, Nevada: More Site Visits!

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

To me, an open photo policy is a cornerstone of any institution that sees itself as a visitor-centered platform for participatory engagement. And I think the fourth and fifth are bizarre and ungenerous to visitors. There are two parts to this. First, every time a photo is shared, it extends the reach of your objects and exhibit stories.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. In contrast, the Wikimedians were focused on making cultural content digitally available online using as open a licensing structure as possible. The project's implementation keeps changing, and I can't decide whether it is getting better or just different.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Economic Impacts. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. Read the license.

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The Story of Stuff: An Inspiring Example of A Network in Action

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Annie also mentioned that their focus was to inspire new thinking and conversations, rather than getting credit or making money. They used a creative commons license – allowing anyone to use their films, put them on their sites, and do anything they wanted except sell it. 2) Networks are participatory.

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