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<p class="MsoNormal">Come to this free webinar to discuss the opportunities and challenges for broadening participation in the digital age.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Summary: Increasing user diversity is a key component of maintaining and expanding digital collections. Diverse users are more engaged, and engage in ways that are both novel and serendipitous - often creating uses for our data that the
curators couldn't imagine. However, increasing our user base can also serve another goal - providing an entrance ramp for people who maintain views, locations, and life histories that are underrepresented in our ranks. Here my colleagues and I demonstrate
how digital collections can help lower barriers to participation across multiple axes, including cost, location and disability status. Our goal in highlighting this is to show the broader impacts of our work, and how through helping people understand biological
diversity we can help improve the diversity within our own community.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Presenter: Dr. Joshua Adam Drew from the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Biology, at Columbia University.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When: March 7, 2018, at 3:00 pm ET<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Where: <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__idigbio.adobeconnect.com_room&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=qM5q6j-VXqEu-KJbYOXaSN3Lwt20iAm8QjmNZ6ZrRHE&s=qr6ZNgCcK30zvGBSeCjdzjTTQky6S52wsELLptvF8og&e=">https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This is the second webinar in a series entitled the "Moving the Needle Initiative." Learn more here:
<a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.idigbio.org_content_moving-2Dneedle-2Dbroadening-2Dparticipation-2Dbiodiversity-2Dsciences&d=DwMFAg&c=cjytLXgP8ixuoHflwc-poQ&r=LpYc_Z_iN1KRw0hheb3x6-8MJUMu482qfHowpGYJqwc&m=qM5q6j-VXqEu-KJbYOXaSN3Lwt20iAm8QjmNZ6ZrRHE&s=BtOwcEOslXuOrS68NRoXDNDxUbFVj8Fz1_jjYq0sOgE&e=">
https://www.idigbio.org/content/moving-needle-broadening-participation-biodiversity-sciences</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Molly Phillips</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">iDigBio Education and Outreach Coordinator</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Florida Museum of Natural History</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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