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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

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Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. Each chapter is takes us through a look at the future by examining the past. Tags: Books. The book give us the 50,000 mile high view. There are some great quotes.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 3: My Experience

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This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 2: Participants' Experiences

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This is the second in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. Several hundred people contributed their opinions, stories, suggestions, and edits to The Participatory Museum as it was written. People who copy edited had a very clear job to do, and I did not allow people to copy edit more than one chapter per week.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 4: Adventures in Self-Publishing

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This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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And the Winner(s) of the Social Media Library Are.

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In addition, I'm sending the winner my review copy of Mitch Joel's Six Pixels of Separation because I think she can learn a lot from Chapter 14 on Participation 2.0. Tags: Books pinko marketing relationships. Brian Reich author of Media Rules left a comment offering to include a copy of his book.

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Social Media for Good and Evil, Strong and Weak Ties, Online/Offline,and Orgs and Networks

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Gladwell’s assertion that social movements are based on tight ties and online efforts on, say, Facebook, are participatory efforts based on loose ties is simply not true. Tags: Books Movement Building Networked Nonprofit. In the 21st century we now have two oppositional methods of organization: the hierarchy and the cloud.

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Please Help Make My Book Incredible

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readers, I'm almost done with the first draft of The Participatory Museum: A Practical Guide , a book that explores the theory, practice, and design techniques for involving visitors and community members in the creation and sharing of cultural content. Tags: participatory museum. Dear Museum 2.0

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