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The Participatory Museum, Five Years Later

Museum 2.0

This week marks five years since the book The Participatory Museum was first released. I thought the pinnacle of participatory practice was an exhibit that could inspire collective visitor action without facilitation. Since 2010 I have seen, again and again and again, how valuable human facilitation is to the participatory process.

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How can nonprofit organizations measure community engagement?

ASU Lodestar Center

Understanding the benefits of building social capital may be effective in creating a participatory culture. In addition to encouraging collaboration and shared purpose, nonprofit organizations should ultimately aim to achieve sustained engagement and a participatory culture (Atlee, 2009). Affordable Hous. & Cmty. Frumkin, P.

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. This 2010 TED talk is a good introduction if you haven't experienced his work before. To celebrate political differences. To recreate childhood photographs.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face? One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really. This feels like a different part of the digital divide.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! Driven by a desire to make a game-changing difference in how people consume content, Tom comfortably resides at the junction where media and technology collide. Get your story ideas ready and RSVP for Nonprofits Live on February 8.

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Guest Post: Lessons Learned Designing a Mobile Game for Balboa Park

Museum 2.0

Giskin Anomaly Right around Thanksgiving 2010 a strange story began to unfold in Balboa Park, San Diego. Lessons Learned 1: Build it, and they will come We thought GISKIN was cool and different, but was it cool and different enough to actually attract people to the Park? Now, that game, GISKIN ANOMALY , is live.

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Goodbye Consulting, Hello Museum of Art & History!

Museum 2.0

The best way I can really push my own participatory practice and thinking is to operate an institution and work with a community I care about over time. Throughout 2010, I was deep in planning an experimental cafe/exhibit space to address all three of these desires for a change.

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