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February Cause Awareness: Black History Month

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Some online e-commerce stores like Etsy spotlight Black-owned businesses or have a special tag you can search through to find Black-owned businesses to shop at. You can do this by visiting a Black history museum or African American heritage site, by reading and sharing books written by Black authors, and by exploring Black music history.

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Take a Side Trip to the Denver Art Museum

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This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. As your hands move through the records, the music changes to whatever record you are currently checking out.

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Social Networks in Small Places

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In just a few weeks, I'm heading to Colorado to chat with a group of nonprofits about using social media in their work -- but not in Denver. They gave tours of their warehouse, played music, and held raffles. Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. I'm going to Western Colorado, where everything is smaller.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon: Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

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The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs. Tags: guest blogging participatory. And looking at other people's responses (via the number displays) is quick, easy, informative, and somewhat surprising.

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

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In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC). What non-traditional arts venues inspire you?

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Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

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The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. And looking at other people's responses (via the number displays) is quick, easy, informative, and somewhat surprising. That's why I asked.

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Creature Comfort: Where are the Couches in Museums?

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There was funky music. The Denver Art Museum has some spaces like that. They also have one with chairs with iPods for listening to music. When we saw these little spaces in Denver, they really had the hand of the educational department, taken as learning opportunities. Tags: design comfort.

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