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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

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Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Austin, Texas: Crowdfunding Success: Crowdrise, Indiegogo, and Kickstarter. Houston, Texas: Net2Houston Refresh! Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Wednesday, April 5, 2017.

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Will They Play in Pyongyang? Culture, Geography, and Participation

Museum 2.0

The objections started in Texas. During a workshop on museum visitor participation, someone spoke up and objected: "this might work in California, but it will never work in Texas." I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. Cultural differences can play out on local levels as well.

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Nonprofits and Videoblogging: Janitors Own Words: Video from SEIU

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At Beyond Broadcast Conference keynote, Henry Jenkins , used the term " astro turf " to refer to "participatory media" made by big business. His job includes strategic planning, launching and maintaining web sites for the International and some locals. Well, this example is no astro turf. It's the real thing.

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Great Conversationalists: Reflections on Being a Dial-a-Stranger

Museum 2.0

I still get fidgety listening to the podcast, but now I see it as an artifact of a supremely conducted participatory project rather the sole product of the process. And they made me appreciate them as superb facilitators as a particular kind of participatory experience: conversation with strangers. They really cared about me.

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Crowdsourcing and the nonprofit community

ASU Lodestar Center

Cultures have always been participatory, long before the Internet, with roots in democratic process, collective decision making, and cooperation for survival. But participatory cultures on the Internet take on a new quality, a new scale, and new capabilities.”. How can crowdsourcing help my nonprofit organization in Arizona?

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