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7 Ideas for a Virtual New Year’s Eve Event

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Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . You can offer prize packages related to your brands but also partner with other local businesses to put together a prize package that will get people really excited to play! Virtual Game Night. Do you know what is fun?

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Developing a Participatory, Provocative History Project at a Small Museum in Minnesota: Interview with Mary Warner

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Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. That letter didn’t come until after we’d talked about it in our local paper.

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7 Ideas for a Virtual New Year’s Eve Event

AccelEvents

Hosting a virtual game night for New Year’s Eve is an attractive prospect for a friendly participatory experience. . You can offer prize packages related to your brands but also partner with other local businesses to put together a prize package that will get people really excited to play! Virtual Game Night. Do you know what is fun?

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

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What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. Participation in science research is a good basis on which to develop a framework for participatory models because it is based on a consistent scientific process with many steps.

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10 Ways to Build a Better Community Brainstorming Meeting

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Bonded groups are useful if you want to understand people's existing attitudes and impressions. The best book I've read on the topic is Facilitators Guide to Participatory Decision-Making by Sam Kaner. Focus group participants will be more forthcoming and honest if they feel like they are "among friends."

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Complicity, Intimacy, Community

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I think small museums are generally better than large ones at fostering local communities of visitors and members. To some extent, complicity is determined by individual attitude. Tags: Talking to Strangers participatory museum comfort. I didn't quite know how to answer this question.

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Thoughts on 3six5, a Successful Participatory Project

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Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. Museums and traditional institutions are not typically set up to manage participatory projects at such a high level of detail.