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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. Are you making that shift in your thinking about participatory project design?

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The Nonprofit Book We’ve Been Waiting Four Years To Read Is Finally Here: New Power

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is open, participatory, and peer-driven. This way of working requires a different, more participatory leadership model and mindset that Allison Fine and I first wrote about in The Networked Nonprofit and others have written about called “networked leadership.” It is closed, inaccessible, and leader-driven.

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How you can foster sustainable innovation within your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time. This is where participatory practice comes in to play. It all starts with your organization’s mission statement.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ultimately, she realized that the highly participatory process resulted in a robust strategic plan that articulated goals and initiatives through 2015 to stabilize infrastructure, increase participation, improve quality, and encourage innovation. ” Paul Connolly.

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Using societal context knowledge to foster the responsible application of AI

Google Research AI blog

When the societal context in which a product will operate is not articulated well enough to result in robust problem understanding, the resulting ML solutions can be fragile and even propagate unfair biases. The first phase of AI product development is problem understanding , and this phase has tremendous influence over how problems (e.g.,

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What Is a Story and Why You Need To Tell Them

The Storytelling Non-profit

It’s participatory. But by telling a story, you can not only communicate the services/programs you provide, you can also articulate their impact. Maybe you think of them is interchangeable terms and you wouldn’t be alone in that. However, and this is a big however, at its foundation “storytelling” is a verb.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really. My experience, and the experiences of many women who are involved in open source, make this clear. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.