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Take a Side Trip to the Denver Art Museum

Museum 2.0

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. But it got really interesting when another visitor approached the second slide projector. Projects design participatory museum.

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Don't Take My Folders Away! Organizing for GTD

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reminds of me of my personal research project at the N-TEN Conference in Denver in 2001 where I interviewed folks in the nonprofit technology field about how they organized the folders on their hard drives. I found this research paper via Christian Crumlish's notes on Social Information architecture, sorting and tagging. overloaded???

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

You can view and download all the slides here. Adam Lerner shared the story of Superheroes , a storefront in downtown Denver operated by a web designer who wanted to invite people to use his space to hang out, read magazines, and make things via letterpress. Tags: professional development. you can do a lot with a storefront.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). 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.

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Contribute to AAM Eye on Design Session

Museum 2.0

I'll be speaking at the end of the month at the AAM meeting in Denver, chairing sessions on virtual worlds (Tuesday 9am) and design inspirations from outside the museum field (Tuesday 10:30am). Tags: professional development. Get chills in the American Girl Place store? Can't wait to emulate Epcot?

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Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

Museum 2.0

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). 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. I'm genuinely interested in your answer.

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Peace Games & International Efforts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We're going to give out 10 $25K grants - one game in particular - University of Denver students created a game called Squeezed. Technorati Tags: 06-g4c More than the addictive nature of game, the action it can take. 700,000 have played the game. Darfur is Dying was created at last year's GFC. We're following up with a new game.

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