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Getting in on the Act: New Report on Participatory Arts Engagement

Museum 2.0

Why is a photography contest an example of "crowd sourcing" wheres a community drawing contest is an example of "audience-as-artist"? What's the relationship between the goals of participation and the techniques employed?

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.&# Ushahidi is an open source platform that facilitates crowdsourcing through the use of SMS/cellphones and online mapping. It has been used in disaster relief, for example, in Pakistan , and other scenarios from London Tube strike to election monitoring to mapping crime incidents Atlanta. (2) 2) Crowd Creation.

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NTEN Member Roundup: When Millennials take over, why Americans don't volunteer, and tips for project success

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Nonprofit MarCommunity shares 12 stock photography sites to help you find the right photo to convey your story. In partnership with Markets for Good, they''ve launched a new microsite: Results Data Initiatives: Charting the Known World that maps these new research initiatives. Launching a new project at your organization?

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What I Learned In London at the Future of Social Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She also talked about “Instameets” where people who have Instagram accounts meet up and take a photo walk and post photos. The pairing of meetups, photography, and social platforms is not a new idea. She shared many, many more examples. Flickr users started that tradition ten years ago.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tagging and social bookmarking can be useful techniques to easily share your information resources with colleagues or co-workers. Photography students use Flickr to post, organize, share, and critique their colleagues?????? Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics. Send the photo the group photo pool.

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14LCS Idea Accelerator Pitches - Onward!

NTEN

Credit: Broken Banjo Photography] It takes a lot to jump onstage and pitch a brand new idea in front of a new group of people. Nonprofit InfoSec - Spencer Bolles Compliance awareness (PCI, HIPAA, FERPA) tools for measuring risk management and mapping of resources to meet organizational needs. The goal: greater open rates.

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14 Top Nonprofit Websites to Inspire Your Organization

DNL OmniMedia

This means that web design projects (and even smaller, iterative updates) are important investments for nonprofits, and they can involve any number of different strategies and techniques. The SEEP site’s integrations also enable it to make use of effective interactive tools, like this map of member locations. Strong use of photography.