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

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29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. It's been a been a busy few weeks!

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How Can You Attract New Audiences Without Alienating Your Base?

Museum 2.0

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

Museum 2.0

This challenge is exacerbated by several factors including: Inconsistent level of touching allowed. This is only going to become a bigger issue for us as we invite in new audiences and incorporate more participatory experiences throughout the museum. The level of touching, especially of art, has increased. This was amazing.

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Improving Family Exhibitions by Co-Creating with Children

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Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. The exhibition report includes both successes and challenges of the project from multiple perspectives--children, staff, parents, teachers. it's a Secret! , What made Shh. it's a Secret! It started with a real institutional need.

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Foot in the Door: A Powerful Participatory Exhibit

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While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. The most challenging part of Foot in the Door --or any nontraditional project--is figuring out what it means for the institution overall. Foot in the Door is a straightforward contributory project.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

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was a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner. The other two things that happened was that I started working a lot in participatory journalism. I'm a big believer in participatory journalism, or citizen journalism, whatever you want to call it. What has been one of the biggest challenges? --David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

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This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. A few things I learned from the presentations and discussion: Dan shared a useful 4-step mental model for the progression of how institutions move towards participatory engagement.

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