sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

A Shared and Flexible Understanding of Impact As practitioners of and advocates for participatory philanthropy, we believe there’s a better way. Like many other activities in participatory philanthropy, this approach considers the process to be as important as the outcomes. It promotes mutuality instead of extraction.

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 91

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. 'Net2 in Action' highlights more than 30 real-life examples of nonprofits using this new breed of Web-based technologies to tackle issues such as reaching and mobilizing constituencies. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Netsquared Wikipedia San Francisco Iraq 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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, Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. The Third C: Community.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 107

Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Looking at the pyramid, each level is typified by an element: the content, the interaction, the network, the social benefit, and the collective action. COLLECTIVE ACTION (How much do people work together?) side, consider these different major venues: A little explanation: Wikipedia is mostly about content. What do they do?)

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Taxonomy Museum Social Wikipedia 20

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2009

It’s common to have low expectations with regard to the number of people who will create content in participatory platforms (online media-sharing sites, contributory projects, story-sharing exhibits). And yet ironically, we spend most of our time with participatory projects accentuating how open they are. 1% is a pretty exclusive club.

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