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The Future of Authority: Platform Power

Museum 2.0

And in a world where visitors want to create, remix, and interpret content messages on their own, museums can assume a new role of authority as "platforms" for those creations and recombinations. The platform is what's important. It's a framework that museums can (and should) control, and there's power in platform management.

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Five Social Media Fundraising Trends for 2009

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These principles will no doubt be copied, refined, remixed, and extended as nonprofits experiment with social media-powered fundraising techniques: Weaving Together Online/Offline Into Real Time Web Fundraising Events. A Platform for Self-Organizing. As June Holley, a thought leader in networks, would say, " Be Rhizomatic.".

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Sharing Power, Holding Expertise: The Future of Authority Revisited

Museum 2.0

Our collective understanding and savviness about the power online platforms wield--for good and ill--has greatly increased since 2008. And in a world where visitors want to create, remix, and interpret content messages on their own, museums can assume a new role of authority as "platforms" for those creations and recombinations.