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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

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Our strategy has relied upon being part of a larger mission, providing meaningful and valuable content, curating information and content for the community, using a legal framework that allows for a participatory culture and lastly, in time, providing a space for the community to assist in the mission by creating content themselves.

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Connect with TechSoup at NCVS!

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Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Second Life — TechSoup formed the Nonprofit Commons five years ago as a virtual community of nonprofits, thriving and building complex 3D interactive environments and hosting regular meetings with streaming media and a wide variety of participatory options.

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A Crash Course in Design Thinking for Network Leadership Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Which comes from the Participatory Facilitator’s Guide. It refers to the part of a participatory process where you know the problem or consensus won’t come easily. All in all it was a fantastic day of learning. Colleague, June Holley , was not able to participate in person, but was able to participate via skype.

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Establish local networks of individuals and organizations using social media to help build stronger organizations and more participatory societies. The implementation team was in the conference room in San Francisco for the first time, plus we had in-country leaders on Skype and phone.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

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which heralded a new, participatory web culture. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, Online social networking was just being born. Citizen journalism. Google Maps. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year).

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And the winner is. and some reflections on user-generated content

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I blogged the invitation, I emailed friends, family, and a few colleagues, I skyped, and sent an invitation to join the flickr group to all my flickr contacts. In addition, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants has an excellent round up of advice on engaging audiences - which is necessary if you want to dip your toes into participatory media.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

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We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8.