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Foundation giving and payout: what changed in 2021?

Candid

1 ] This year, we asked funders about their giving in FYE (fiscal year end) 2020 and 2021, including funding designated for COVID-19 [ 2 ] and what trends they are paying attention to this year. Paying attention to concerns about the impact of COVID on mental health of children” . Every January, Candid surveys large U.S.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. I've purchase a two copies, one for me and one to give away.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Designing Talkback Platforms for Different Dialogic Goals

Museum 2.0

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. The outcome of our conversations is dependent on the diversity of designed environments in which they occur. "Where were you last night?"

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

Museum 2.0

I grew up professionally in the science and children's museum field, where touching is guaranteed and floor staff spend more time helping visitors learn and ensuring their personal safety than they do protecting the objects. The Milwaukee Art Museum has a video explaining do's and don'ts of the museum for children. What do you think?

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

It's not the extent to which they are participatory. Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. Design firms' projects often have a common look across different cities and institutions.

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Techniques for Identifying and Amplifying Social Objects in Museums

Museum 2.0

It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect. This isn't surprising: when the term "social object" was coined in the online environment , the whole point was that people socialize around specific objects, images, or ideas, not general topics or interests.

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