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12 Ways We Made our Santa Cruz Collects Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

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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Foundation giving and payout: what changed in 2021?

Candid

Comparisons of FYE 2020 and FYE 2021 giving are unadjusted for inflation.) We are paying attention to issues of equity and social justice; participatory grantmaking; and streamlining applications and reporting.” . “We Top takeaways on FYE 2021 giving and payout .

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 4: Adventures in Self-Publishing

Museum 2.0

This is the final segment in a four-part series about writing The Participatory Museum. This posts explains why and how I self-published The Participatory Museum. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to license The Participatory Museum using Creative Commons and give away the content for free online. Why Self-Publish?

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Connect with TechSoup at NCVS!

Tech Soup

Live: Participatory Events, Webinars, Conversations, Local and Global. Check this chart for a comparison of web conferencing tools. Elliot will be talking with participants about technology planning for nonprofits, and Evonne and Susan will be talking about interactive online events and social media tools.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The production system maps aid an organization to understand how work actually gets done, in comparison to formal org charts. Key is a participatory development process. Each type of mapping has specific benefits. Issue mapping allows a non-profit to understand key leverage points in the bigger system it is trying to influence.

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How We Doubled Attendance in a Year: One More Post about How Events Changed Our Attendance

Museum 2.0

And finally, and perhaps most interestingly, here's a comparison of Jan-June 2011 vs Jan-June 2012. We've been toying with a participatory future-casting program and or a storytelling series to start moving in this direction. Now, here's our attendance breakdown for the year that just ended. Right now, all we do is count people.

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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But their number pale in comparison to, say, the plethora of, say, network sniffing tools, for instance. One person had brought up the idea of open source as a model for egalitarian participatory economics, and I made a brief comment that it wasn’t all that egalitarian, really.