Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Here is an example of an artistic program or creative process undertaken as a crowd and it isn't a cheap publicity stunt. A group of individuals has more knowledge to solve a problem than a single individual.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. A group of individuals has more knowledge for solving a problem than any single individual. Collective intelligence creates a quilt of knowledge that many people can distribute. Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# 2) Crowd Creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

These teens are actively involved what Jenkins calls "participatory culture" - a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one's creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices.

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