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25 Sep 09

Museum 2.0

  • the rubric of participatory models introduces a language that can be useful to many kinds of institutions and projects.
  • In citizen science projects, the public is invited to participate in "real science" by working with scientists on projects that benefit from mass participation around the world. But most citizen science projects are contributory; participants collect data based on specifications determined by scientists, to help answer questions posed by scientists. The scientists control the process, steer the data collection, and analyze the results. Unsurprisingly, studies have shown that these kinds of citizen science projects are enormously successful at engaging the public with science but are not successful at exposing participants to the entire scientific process.
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03 Aug 09

Social Networking on Intranets (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

  • Underground efforts yield big results. Companies are turning a blind eye to underground social software efforts until they prove their worth, and then sanctioning them within the enterprise.
  • Frontline workers are driving the vision. Often, senior managers aren't open to the possibilities for enterprise 2.0 innovation because they're not actively using these tools outside of work. Indeed, many senior managers still consider such tools as something their kids do. One of the dirty secrets of enterprise 2.0 is that you don't have to teach or convince younger workers to use these tools; they expect them and integrate them as easily into their work lives as they do in their personal lives.
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23 Jul 09

Bobbie Johnson on how Scribd made pages pay | Technology | The Guardian

  • Shortly after its 2006 launch, Scribd.com stumbled across an easy way to explain what it did: it called itself "for documents". The phrase sounded snappy enough, and even if was a little confusing, at least it had the virtue of being easy to use in elevator pitches.
  • The site now ranks as one of the world's top 100 websites and, with more than 35bn words in its system, it is increasingly the place to go for documents of all sorts. It contains everything from academic papers and PowerPoint presentations to recipes and electronic books: all searchable and shareable for the site's estimated user base of 50 million. Adler may not like the analogies, but there is a truth in the comparison: what YouTube is for video, or Flickr is for photography, Scribd is fast becoming for the written word.
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19 May 09

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  • Rheingold says that success on Twitter boils down to:

    It comes down to
    tuning and feeding. And by successful, I mean that I gain value -
    useful information, answers to questions, new friends and colleagues -
    and that the people who follow me gain value in the form of
    entertainment, useful information, and some kind of ongoing
    relationship with me.
14 Apr 09

Wired.com Readers Pick Personal Petition Site as Best Gov Sunshine App | Epicenter from Wired.com

  • The Petition Archives won the Epicenter Reader's Choice award. The site lets citizens create personal petitions targeted at their representative, using Sunlight Foundation's API to automatically fill in legislators' information.

  • Second place goes to TweetCongress, which strives to open up communication between lawmakers and citizens using the net's hottest new communication tool, Twitter.






    Or as its creator, the web app development house Squeejee,
    puts it, "We the Tweeple  of the United States, in order to form a more
    perfect government, establish communication, and promote transparency
    do hereby Tweet the Congress of the United States of America."

How to manage engagement and participation - the democratic process in a web2.0 context | Cooperation Commons

  • eCairn recently published a very interesting analysis on what happens when you open a site and ask people to contribute ideas. They mention Dell Ideastorm and the Obama administration Citizen's Briefing Book from the Obama administration, and I have to agree with the conclusion: you have to know what to expect when opening up the doors to input with no filtering. And where and how you "listen" to your audience makes a difference:
  • 1- if you ask everybody to provide input on a website, and then use a rating system to decide which issues are important, then what you will get is not what the most important issues are for the community as a whole, but rather what the most important ideas are for the best organized group within the community. Huge difference. Basically chances are that one or a few communities will take over the site and monopolize the conversation. And if there is no moderation, then you will end up just listening to what they have to say regardless of what others may think.
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30 Mar 09

Emily Bell: Digital media cannot be contained by the analogue rulebook | Media | The Guardian

  • In the struggle to find new terminology that accurately describes concepts we don't fully understand, sometimes language fails us. "New media" is one such term that fails to describe seismic structural change, and insultingly foists the moniker of "old media" on to vibrant formats such as broadcast television and newspapers. What we mean when we say "new media" is most often "digital".
  • One key, defining principle of things that are "digital" is that they can be very easily copied, compressed and transmitted. In other words, "digital" and "free" (in every sense, not just the monetary sense) go together
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