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Trainer’s Tip: Your Room Set Up Can Make or Break the Learning Experience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I spent a day facilitating leadership workshops for arts leaders attending the Art House Convergence Conference near Park City, Utah. This accomplished a few things: I didn’t have to trash my plans and revert to a traditional lecture. I made it participatory so participants helped move the furniture.

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Foursquare and Nonprofits: I want to Be The Mayor of Brooklyn Museum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am putting the finishing touches on another social media lab designed for arts organizations. So, have been updating arts 2.0 I've also been trying to wrap my brain around whether or not Foursquare has value for nonprofits. Location-based social networks also offer opportunities for the performing arts and theatre.

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Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies?

Museum 2.0

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? Instead, I found a standard art museum.

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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

Have Fun - Do Good

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. Early registration deadline is Nov. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi.

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

Museum 2.0

Beck is the brain behind the risk-taker/space-maker paradigm I''ve shared here in the past. We recruited folks and designed software that texted them five times a day for thirty days, asking one question, "Rate your mood 1 (low) to 10 (high)." game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Making Alternative Meaning out of Museum Artifacts

Museum 2.0

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. But I also found myself wondering if this imagined set of interpretations for the art was any more compelling or useful than any other imagined set of interpretations.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. Design for Participation Is there any better ingredient for a successful conference session than a banjo? Kathleen showed lots of participatory elements in the redesigned Oakland Museum of California.

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