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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

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Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. It’s not solely about how museums can serve communities but rather what are the communities’ resources, knowledge and interests that can inform museum practice? I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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Designing Talkback Platforms for Different Dialogic Goals

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Richard Rabinowitz, curator of exhibition, noted that the progressive nature of the questions yielded increasingly complex responses, and that "it was typically in response to the third or fourth question that visitors, now warmed up, typically began relating the exhibition to their previous knowledge and experience."

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Denver, CO / $525. 12/13/2016.