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Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

Consider featuring traditional music, dance, theater, or martial arts groups from the community. Community bulletin boards at libraries, colleges, and coffee shops are great outreach channels. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Displaying AAPI visual arts is another engaging activity. Avoid too much cultural jargon.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon: Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: guest blogging participatory. Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0

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Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century in 714 Words (or less)

Museum 2.0

ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. Dear Museum 2.0-ers, We are uniquely situated to be these venues.

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What Does Audience-Centered Look Like? It Looks like Glasgow Museums.

Museum 2.0

Many of my favorite museums, libraries, and zoos are customer-centered places. We took a break from the galleries, had a drink, and listened to the music as we chatted about our experience. Sometimes we are enjoying the music and sometimes we are playing it. They care about visitor comfort.

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Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

Museum 2.0

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. The question is, "would you recommend this book to someone?"

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. They ask judges to self-define their art knowledge. innovator.

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Don't Talk to Strangers? Safety 2.0

Museum 2.0

I think it's a good thing that librarything gives me a way to talk to strangers about books that feels safer than approaching the drooling guy at the public library. Imagine a music store where each CD lists the names of the last 20 people to pick it up, and what those people ultimately bought.

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