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Trainer’s Notebook: Just A Few Participatory Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also had an opportunity to attend a couple of sessions that used participatory facilitation techniques. If you are new to participatory facilitation techniques, use the Spectagram as an opener and use it to better understand skill levels in the room. Share in the comments. Here’s what I learned. Spectragram.

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Great Participatory Processes are Open, Discoverable, and Unequal

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A few years and a few hundred open mics into that experience, it became obvious that some venues fostered amazing poetry communities, others, not so much. One of my favorite open mics was at the Cantab in Cambridge, MA. Compare that with any number of lousy open mics. The process is incredibly open and equal.

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Participatory Moment of Zen: Diverse Visitor Contributions Add Up to Empathy

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Whoever wrote this comment card: thank you. This person is writing about a participatory element (the "pastport") that we included in the exhibition Crossing Cultures. People could take the pastports home or hang them, open to a preferred page, on a clothesline. You made my month. The clotheslines were always full.

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Adventures in Evaluating Participatory Exhibits: An In-Depth Look at the Memory Jar Project

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Two years ago, we mounted one of our most successful participatory exhibits ever at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History: Memory Jars. Two years later, this project is still one of the most fondly remembered participatory experiences at the museum--by visitors and staff. Please share your stories in the comments.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. The presentation is available on my wiki (it’s at the bottom.)

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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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One Simple Question to Make Your Work More Participatory

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This is the question I ask myself anytime I'm working on something with a participatory intent. The obvious start was to think about how we recruit the artists--using an open call to invite anyone, anywhere to participate. This open call project may sound like one that is uniquely suited for participatory input.