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Voters: Part 1 - Multimedia Tagging Project

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This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. This post takes a quick look at the the Voters project as a tagging project to glean some learnings. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard."

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What are the most effective ways Nonprofits/Foundations can use Twitter #hashtags?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. A Brief History of Hash Tags Chris Messina ( @chrismessina) is credited with starting hashtags and has written about how to make them most useful. That's, of course, if the tag used is unique enough. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

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When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences.

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

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When I talk about designing participatory experiences, I often show the above graphic from Forrester Research. There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Museums see open-ended self-expression as the be-all of participatory experiences.

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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, In co-creation, the value lies as much in the curated aggregate as in the individual contributions.

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What the Third Sector Can Learn from the Public Sector

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Participatory. Participatory. In San Francisco, datasf.org aggregates raw data from over 140 city departments, making it available to any member of the public, for any reason. Tags: alissa black Collaboration Data dimitry kachaev Leadership noel hidago Open Source Policy sxswi transparency. Collaborative. Transparent.

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is my hope, my prayer that I can use these god given communication skills, our not so new world of participatory media, and make green something so compelling that it cannot help but become an all powerful movement. Tags: movement building.

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