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Approach Social Media Like Thomas Edison

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Friday, I facilitated the final face-to-face workshop for the Social Media Lab for 25 arts organizations inspired by Thomas Edison’s approach. Some participants got frustrated along the way, but part of the learning was to make time and space for reflection to get to deeper insights and improve practice.

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Traveling Postcards: Interview with Founder, Caroline Lovell

Have Fun - Do Good

You do not need to be an “artist” to make a postcard, but each participant is surprised and delighted by their creativity and to see that their cards contain colors, words and images that reflect their strongest selves. Yet, I wanted to be that artist and still do. What is your favorite Traveling Postcards success story?

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How Different Types of Museums Approach Participation

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Children of the Lodz Ghetto ). They also want to avoid stories or perspectives that reflect hateful or offensive views toward other people. Finally, some history museum staff members feel that they should not be dealing with contemporary social issues or that they are unable to facilitate dialogue on contentious topics.

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What's Your Leisure Identity? Does it Bring You Into Museums?

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John details five identity needs that are well-served by museums: explorer, experience seeker, recharger, professional/hobbyist, and facilitator. And the facilitator wants his friends and family to have a good time. The explorer is a curious person who loves to dig into things. The recharger wants a mental break in a relaxing setting.

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Observations from The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop, Month 1

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For me, it means spending a lot more time facilitating idea generation and communicating with others than being an independent creative agent. The result is a focus on designing spaces, workshops, and social experiences that facilitate creative sharing. Now, on to the lessons thus far. First, let's talk process.

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Guest Post: Using Participation to Solve a Design Problem at the Carnegie Museum of Art

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We also wanted to: Inspire visitors to engage in active looking: notice, reflect, react, and respond to the works of art and to the interdisciplinary quality of the exhibition. The activity was facilitated by the activity station set up in the lobby just outside the gallery. How about break it down for younger children?"

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

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It was exhilarating to see them inspired to create their own meanings in response: lovers whispering together in alcoves, people of all ages writing and drawing on walls and post-its, children painting, everyone sitting rapt before screens. This was launched as a facilitated activity during a "Love Fest" event in April and stayed.