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Will They Play in Pyongyang? Culture, Geography, and Participation

Museum 2.0

In New Zealand: "this might work in Australia, but it will never work in New Zealand." I saw how participatory techniques were working in diverse museums around the world. In this frame, any kind of participatory activity could work, anywhere. cultural competency design inclusion participatory museum'

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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Wellington, New Zealand: Gleanings from Nonprofit Technology Conference Washington, DC March 2017. Mississauga, Ontario: Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo. Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Las Vegas, Nevada: More Site Visits!

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Quick Hit: Meet Me Down Under

Museum 2.0

I'm about to leave on a month-long trip to New Zealand and Australia. Offering free workshops open to the public on participatory museum practice in Wellington (Nov 26), Christchurch (Nov 27), and Auckland (Dec 14).

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Participation Starts with Staff: The Ruru Revolution

Museum 2.0

Ruth is a curator of pictorial collections for Puke Ariki, a museum/library/visitor center in the small city of New Plymouth, New Zealand. If you're doing something special and participatory, for goodness sakes, let me know. Ruth Harvey has a brilliant solution to this problem.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

Last month, I gave the closing keynote at the National Digital Forum in New Zealand. I consider this the greatest obstacle to the inclusion of participatory practice in cultural institutions because it fundamentally changes the way organizations staff and fund projects.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 3: My Experience

Museum 2.0

This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Philanthropy New Zealand / Wellington, (Int.)