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Vote for the sessions you want at 11NTC

Amy Sample Ward

That’s right, the session selection process is open for the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference ! Participants will walk away with a set of guiding principles and tactics to develop media, events and activities that encourage connections and local leadership among your stakeholders to increase your organizational reach and impact.

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Yes, Audience Participation Can Have Significant Value

Museum 2.0

Last week, the local newspaper did a really generous front-page story on my museum (the MAH) and the changes here over the past eight months since I started. Our team focused this year on just three things: making the museum more comfortable, hosting new participatory events, and partnering wherever possible.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. The MAH’s historic Evergreen Cemetery brings together the Homeless Services Center and MAH volunteers or the local rugby team to collaboratively restore the cemetery.

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How We Doubled Attendance in a Year: One More Post about How Events Changed Our Attendance

Museum 2.0

The busiest day in both 2011 and 2012 is our longtime community program, Free First Friday. And finally, and perhaps most interestingly, here's a comparison of Jan-June 2011 vs Jan-June 2012. I'd like to show you the data for the full fiscal year, but we only have this daily data beginning in the winter of 2011.

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Psst. Want an Internship?

Museum 2.0

I'm also making the 2011-2012 budget, getting to know our terrific staff and volunteers, and starting up a few small participatory projects to launch us into being a more community-driven institution. Board committee meetings. Film festival openings. Historical landmark ceremonies. And that's just the fun stuff. Let me be frank.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Inside the Design of an Amazing Museum Project to Capture People's Stories

Museum 2.0

It made me dig up this 2011 interview with Tina Olsen (then at the Portland Art Museum) about their extraordinary Object Stories project. They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. interview Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Why I Blog

Museum 2.0

You''re in for a treat, with upcoming posts on creativity, collections management, elitism, science play, permanent participatory galleries, partnering with underserved teens, magic vests, and more. The total readership from 2010-2012 was more than double that of 2007-2009 (and has been flat since 2011). As the readership for Museum 2.0

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