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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. The workshops topics included.

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Case Study: A Participatory Road Trip takes the SJMA on a Wild Ride

Museum 2.0

Reason #258 I'm glad to live in California: Cultural Connections. I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). After all, as naysayers of participatory design often remind me, the museum is not a popularity contest.

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

Dd co-founder and executive director Emily Jacobi recently showcased some of Dd's projects at an event hosted by the Center of Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) in Berkeley, California. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline.

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Guest Post: Radical Collaboration - Tools for Partnering with Community Members

Museum 2.0

It started as a handout for a session that Stacey and I are doing at the California Association of Museums, and then I realized it was so darn useful that it was worth sharing with all of you. New to the art form and the museum, we gave them a gift certificate to reflect over milkshakes at a local burger joint after the event.

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Foot in the Door: A Powerful Participatory Exhibit

Museum 2.0

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. This is what happened at the Oakland Museum of California, which used its very successful co-creative Days of the Dead project as a kind of template for participatory redesign.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

Anna had been the founding Curator of Education at the National Building Museum, led the Rolling Rainforest project, and was a real innovator in developing in-depth participatory design experiences with community members (though I wouldn't have used those words at the time).

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

Julie Ha Truong is joining us from beautiful California by way of South Dakota in her background. So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. ” That reflection is really important. . But don’t do that right now because we got a friend of the program joining us once again. I love it.