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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

Event formats — for example, a lecture, a panel, a world cafe, or speed dating, and how keep them effective and manageable. Naples, Florida: Social Media Surgery — Back to Basics and One-on-One Q&A. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits.

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Voters: Part 1 - Multimedia Tagging Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard." " They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics.

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Design for Social Engagement: Pointing at Exhibits

Museum 2.0

What makes an exhibit “social?” This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. Exhibits that induce pointing are social in a couple of ways.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! So far, most participatory museum design projects are heavily guided by the institution. MN150 will have formal summative evaulation, which is wonderful.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. Social Capital 2016.

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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. The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece. This promoted lots of social object behavior, including lots of pointing at art.