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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

At the big one, I worked on a small project with teens to design science exhibits for community centers in their own neighborhoods. I designed electricity workshops for families. By summer of 2007, when I left the Spy Museum to move to California, the blog was a big deal. I got hooked all over again.

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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

I''ve given talks and workshops about it all over the world. If participation was my mantra from 2007-2011, community has been my mantra since then. Over 20,000 copies have been sold around the world. Over 150,000 people have accessed the free online version. Weekly, I hear from someone who is putting ideas from the book into action.

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Jayne Cravens to Serve as Advisor to UN program in Afghanistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's when I was working with the New York Foundation for the Arts on its technology capacity building programs, including offline/online workshops for online skill building called SpiderSchool. She suggests that if organizations are targeting young people, particularly teens and 20 somethings that platforms like Myspace can be a good tool.