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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).

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

I get excited about a lot of things in my work at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. 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.

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Quick Hit: My Work with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

Museum 2.0

Her blog, "Museum 2.0," is one of the leading forces working to remake the museum experience. What do we have to do differently?" Instead, she plans to bring a variety of working artists, one at a time -- "somebody painting, or shaping a surfboard, or sculpting" -- as a kind of live demonstration of art as it is being created.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Toward the end, a young man, who worked with urban kids of color on media and music, commented that he didn’t really know how to get access to the kinds of things available, and he noticed how few people of color were in the room. And aren’t those different that the issues other groups of people face? Right, right, right.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

Tech Soup

Our guests will talk about consistency, production quality, distribution tips and ways to work effectively together to achieve the greatest impact with your nonprofit stories. This is a participatory live video show - come ready with your questions for our experts! David is a cross-disciplinary mediamaker, working at the intersection.

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

Museum 2.0

When I worked briefly with the Balboa Park Online Collaborative to conceptualize a mobile phone-based game to connect visitors to the park to its cultural institutions and history, I knew Ken would be the perfect person to make it happen. Giskin Anomaly Right around Thanksgiving 2010 a strange story began to unfold in Balboa Park, San Diego.

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