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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

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What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? If you say, “we need a blog,” others in your organization won’t know how to contextualize that within the programs and mission of the institution. If your institution says it is bold and fearless, how do your programs support that?

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Two Years Later

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And when I think back on the last year and how it compared to year one of blogging, the shining difference is you--your interest, your comments, and most of all, your extraordinary example. blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 Today, Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0

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Foot in the Door: A Powerful Participatory Exhibit

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While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece. I also think it would be useful for the MIA to aggregate blog posts, Flickr photos, etc.

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Pointing at Exhibits, Part 2: No-Tech Social Networks

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And it's brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago about the Science Museum of Minnesota's Race: Are We So Different? Design Implications The "pointiness" of an exhibit is a metric that reflects the extent to which the content motivates visitors to share things with strangers and friends alike. exhibition.

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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. Museums should feel protective of the expertise reflected in their staff, exhibits, programs, and collections. and my emphatic response is YES.