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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

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Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Digital Dumpster Fire: Tips to Handle Social and Online PR Problems ( Communications Networking Lunch).

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Month at the Museum, Part 1: A Video Contest that Delivers

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Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. I hope you'll weigh in with your own favorites and observations in the comments. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. Overall favorite.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

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I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

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Visitor Co-Created Museum Experiences This session was a dream for me, one that brought together instigators of three participatory exhibit projects: MN150 (Kate Roberts), Click! In Children of the Lodz Ghetto, every data entry is verified by staff in a three-step process as well as reviewed and commented on by other users.

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Two Years Later

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And when I think back on the last year and how it compared to year one of blogging, the shining difference is you--your interest, your comments, and most of all, your extraordinary example. at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By Today, Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0

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Pointing at Exhibits, Part 2: No-Tech Social Networks

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And it's brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago about the Science Museum of Minnesota's Race: Are We So Different? As Paul commented, "you don't point at things when you're alone." What "no-tech" visitor actions or interrelations reflect your participatory goals? exhibition. What others should we consider?

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

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Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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