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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

This work included developing a secure system to track, map, and report incidents of gender-based violence; an emergency hotline; and media training to support women in documenting and sharing their experiences. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline.

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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, It is also important to bridge online conversations into mainstream media buzz and online engagement into offline action.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

An academic-community partnership, the project brings together immigrant day laborers, scholars, software developers, and community organizers for participatory design, curriculum development, evaluation and research around this emerging media tool and its social impact. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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Nonprofit SXSW Goodness – Conference List Toppers, To-Dos and Topics of Interest

Connection Cafe

Uprising Tide panel Saturday, March 13 at 03:30 PM - "Inciting Online Communities into Offline Movements - Ready to put your tech community on the map? Across the country, geeks inside and outside of government are developing a new model for a participatory and transparent Federal, State and Municipal governments.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. Resource mapping, who’s already here? But Julie, would you mind maybe taking questions by email or, you know, offline here? How do we do this well? These are some of the tools that I use all the time. I’m so sorry for that.