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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

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Back in 2008, I devised a plan to outsource my New Year''s Resolutions. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences' Experimonth started out as play. I tweeted and Facebooked a request for friends to suggest things I could resolve to do over the course of 2009.

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

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If you care about how participatory art experiences can shape civic processes, read Bedoya's post. Adam and I first met in 2008, when we were part of a National Academies think tank-ish thing on the future of museums and libraries. The way we talk about our work helps shape its importance to current and potential audiences.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 1: Overview and Statistics

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This is the first of a four-part series on the behind-the-scenes experience of writing The Participatory Museum. Overview: Stages of Development and Participation Types The Participatory Museum was written over a 15 month period that began in December of 2008. Tags: Book: The Participatory Museum.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo.

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Sharing Power, Holding Expertise: The Future of Authority Revisited

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Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. Our collective understanding and savviness about the power online platforms wield--for good and ill--has greatly increased since 2008. Me: "Sort of."