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12 Ways We Made our Santa Cruz Collects Exhibition Participatory

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This exhibition represents a few big shifts for us: We used a more participatory design process. Our previous big exhibition, All You Need is Love, was highly participatory for visitors but minimally participatory in the development process. Without further ado, here's what we did to make the exhibition participatory.

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Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age

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Clay’s book talks about the implications of a society shifting from passive consumption of media to creators of media or being participatory. Each chapter is takes us through a look at the future by examining the past. The book give us the 50,000 mile high view. There are some great quotes. “Start small.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 3: My Experience

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This is the third in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This post covers my personal process of encouraging--and harnessing--participation in the creation of The Participatory Museum. As the participatory content review progressed well, I started looking for other ways for people to help.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

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This week, we're covering the first objective in Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff's book Groundswell : listening (chapter 5). In Groundswell, Charlene and Josh provide an instructive case study about the Mini car company, which used listening to determine that they should target their marketing toward current Mini owners, not potential buyers.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

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The convenors set up a lovely wiki and gave us specific instructions to answer research questions posed on a series of pages. The participatory "ask" is high--to create original content. After the conference, the wiki switched from being a participatory site to a useful record. On March 22, they released the wiki. over email.

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