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The Participatory Nonprofit?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

gThe above video is one of the many social networking strategies that The Genocide Intervention Network used to transform itself from a small student group to national non-profit. "There's a mentality shift required to fully engage with social networking and community content sites: sometimes, you have to let go." Go read it.

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In ongoing conversations with John Gautam on Twitter, I've learned more about how their overall social publishing strategy which balances their curated content or "branded" content with community conversations to co-create social content. Curated Content. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

" Digital Democracy's approach to achieving this mission is based on the following three stages: Digital literacy: Getting individuals to understand the tools and how to use them. Local language content and locally relevant context has facilitated the transition into local ownership. Want to learn more? spanhidden.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" I'm trying to walk the walk and talk the talk of Remixing Content for nonprofits. It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. The above slides are from yesterday's Extension presentation and focus on Step 8: User-Generated Content and Remixing. to Change The World.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kristiansen captured the drama on this video clip of Mena Trott's Keynote calling for more civility in blog commenting. If you’re courageous and know your content backwards, display the back channel on a screen that everyone (including you) can see. You can combine this with asking the audience for “out-loud” questions as well.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

You can see or download my slides and you can watch the video of the talk. I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. Or you can read this condensed version of the talk.

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