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Making Museum Tours Participatory: A Model from the Wing Luke Asian Museum

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She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. We walked into her family's historic association hall and a replica of her uncle's dry goods store. But participatory facilitation can be taught. Tags: personalization participatory museum.

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Ways that Emerging Nonprofit Leaders Can Build Virtuoso Listening Skills

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Daniel Goleman, who coined the term and concept Emotional Intelligence and brought it into the workplace, says that the competencies associated with being socially aware are: Empathy: understanding the other person’s emotions, needs and concerns. Pay close attention to interactions with other people.

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Teenagers and Social Participation

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Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. Teenagers are often the target for participatory endeavors, and they definitely have high interest in creative expression, personalizing museum experiences, and using interactive or technological tools as part of their visit.

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

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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. The early participatory projects are terrific.

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Art Brings People Together: Measuring the Power of Social Bridging

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We have some strategies for tackling this: convening diverse content advisors, incorporating anti-bias educational approaches in our design, developing participatory opportunities for visitors to connect past to present. Implicit Associations test. Measuring the change in implicit associations over time is a proxy for change in bias.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

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In short, it limits museums from being places that are trusted as institutions of public engagement and interaction--the places many museums claim they want to be. Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age.

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Dangerous/Ridiculous: Reflections on AAM

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Last week, I was in Minneapolis for the American Association of Museums annual meeting. This woman is killing it when it comes to developing in-gallery interactive experiences around permanent collections. In particular, we had a great group of 15 talking about participatory history experiences on Sunday.