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Trainer’s Notebook: Making Accommodations In Workshops

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week I facilitated a workshop in Detroit hosed by Co-Act , a nonprofit collaboration space in Detroit. Co-Act is a unique organization, a hub for accelerating collaborative action in Southeast Michigan’s nonprofit community. My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience.

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Connect with TechSoup at NCVS!

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Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Watchitoo — The new tool behind the TechSoup NPlive web series offers video from many sources integrated with images, YouTube and social chat, Q&A, and webinar tools including a collaborative whiteboard. We think Watchitoo.

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Guest Post: Lessons Learned Designing a Mobile Game for Balboa Park

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Ken is a game designer and writer who develops narrative, collaborative augmented reality experiences about serious issues. GISKIN ANOMALY is a “historical fiction” game I created for Rich Cherry and the Balboa Park Online Collaborative. The goal was to design an audio tour for people who never do audio tours.

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

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Ze Frank is a participatory artist who creates digital projects that are explicitly about creating and enhancing authentic interpersonal connections. Photography, video, audio, text, origami, mail art. Most of the participatory projects I've been involved with are rooted in a community that is geographically-defined.

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How Do You Capture Compelling Visitor Stories? Interview with Christina Olsen

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They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. How and why did Object Stories come to be?

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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Pick of the Week: WNYC's RadioLab

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It also has some interesting lessons about collaboration in design; there's a lot of acknowledgment and discussion about the positives and negatives of bringing new technologies (digital audio manipulation) into a classic venue (radio). It's This American Life meets Science Friday with a whole slew of strange audio tweaks thrown in.

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