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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. Online social networking was just being born. Here was the Philanthropy News Network announcement of the project: "TechSoup NetSquared, the project to increase nonprofit effectiveness through Web-based social tools, has added a case study section to its website. 'Net2

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects?

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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, Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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Good Lord, another blog.

Museum 2.0

No museum is as flexible or participatory as the Web has become. dynamic content aggregation and network machines). Or, check out the wikipedia article , which is more readable. Should they be? What are the possibilities and challenges in creating "an architecture of participation?" static content delivery machines) to 2.0

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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

Museum 2.0

I created a directional pyramid to make a point about social content in museum; namely, that museums are not offering networked, social experiences—and therefore will have a hard time jumping to initiating meaningful social discourse. NETWORK (How do users link to one another?) MySpace is mostly about personal identity within networks.

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Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century in 714 Words (or less)

Museum 2.0

Regardless of how museums and libraries portray themselves, it’s clear to users: Wikipedia belongs to them. Real artifacts are not suffering with the rise of digitization; they are gaining new lives in personal memory sites, blogs, and collection-based social networks. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Since the concept of working in Networks is can be hard to explain to newcomers, learning from case studies, stories, and examples can be illuminating. The design was to share this learning was amazing. She sometimes feared that the “crowd” of Wikimedians might go down the wrong path and make some unwise decisions.