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Balancing Engagement: Adventures in Participatory Exhibit Labels

Museum 2.0

They’re no longer “an exhibit” per se—more of an evocative design element that hints at an important story told elsewhere in the museum. We decided to approach the label-writing for these boards in a participatory way. We can certainly write a decent label based on this activity. But one post-it threw me for a loop.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 1: How Do You Create a Future-Thinking History Museum?

Museum 2.0

The majority of the book is a tour of the conceptualized physical institution, with smaller sections devoted to the political history of the project and the activities (mostly participatory, distributed, and digital) that the team undertook from 2009-2011 to start building their constituency. Limited interactivity.

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Navigation by Recommendation: Lessons Learned from a Little Experiment

Museum 2.0

I wondered what would happen if that interaction was scaled up. We had documented the activity with pictures of the people with their cards, and it was abundantly clear after the dust cleared that the personality and energy of the recommendations were in the images, not the cards. That packaging was in the photos, not the cards.

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Nonprofit SXSW Goodness – Conference List Toppers, To-Dos and Topics of Interest

Connection Cafe

It’s less than 24 hours until the masses start filling the Austin Convention Center for one of the biggest and best Interactive conferences of the year: South By Southwest. And for all you people using Four Square , it's also one of the official Check-in for Charity locations (hint: new badge anyone?). Author: Jordan Viator.