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

The Modern Nonprofit

But how do you ensure your events not only honor this rich heritage but also captivate and mobilize your community towards meaningful action? Displaying AAPI visual arts is another engaging activity. Their grassroots activism brings important perspectives. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators.

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How Museum Hack Transforms Museum Tours: Interview with Dustin Growick

Museum 2.0

We interacted with the art and with each other through dynamic photo challenges, kinesthetic activities, and conversations. Can you give an example of the kind of Museum Hack activity that makes this different from other museum tours? We have a specific opening activity to bring the group together.

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

Museum 2.0

I was captivated by Chris Alexander 's story about participatory online/onsite efforts at the San Jose Museum of Art (SJMA). And in the same way that we struggle to define success metrics other than visitation for a variety of museum activities, we need to think about what "success" and "value" mean in this context.

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Mixing Digital and Physical: The Holocaust Museum's Handwritten Pledge Wall

Museum 2.0

People were captivated by the slow animation of their pledges being added to the wall, and that slowness sealed a deliberate interaction. I recently visited the Power of Children exhibition at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis, which also features a pledge activity at a large installation called the Tree of Promise.

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Talking Through Objects: The Dog Analogy

Museum 2.0

You are the only active agent with an interactive. With a dog, you are both active agents, and the “interactivity” is social. If I approach you in a museum and ask what captivates you about the sculpture in front of us, you might look at me strangely and tell me you were just spacing out. Dogs are outwardly emotive.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

A few suggestions for how to think strategically about hosting them: Provide activities or offerings that align with your desired image. When you have your captive audience, customize your offerings so they can easily make the connection to why they might want to visit again. Projects participatory museum. Evaluate the outcome.

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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. Marketing & Communications / #2016DML / @dmlconference.