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Book Announcement: The Participatory Museum is now available!

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The Participatory Museum is a practical guide to visitor participation. The Participatory Museum is an attempt at providing such a resource. I hope it opens up a broader conversation about the nuts and bolts of successful participatory projects. Tags: participatory museum Quick Hits.

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

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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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The Art of Relevance is Now Available For Free on the Web (and Here's Why)

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You can still buy The Art of Relevance as a paperback, ebook, or audiobook--but you can also read any chapter, any time, online. When I wrote my first book, The Participatory Museum , I released it concurrently as a paperback and free online. You can now read all the chapters in The Art of Relevance for free online.

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Adventures in Artist-Driven Public Engagement: Machine Project at the Hammer Museum

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What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? The Machine Project and the Hammer Museum have just released an incredible ebook documenting Machine's year-long residency at the Hammer in 2010. No, this is not a reality TV show. Who Owns the Work?

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How False Conviction Could Help Science Centers Be More Human

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It’s not every day that a science center releases an ebook about wrongful conviction in rape and murder cases. This interview is not really about an ebook. The Innocence Project is a tremendously participatory project, with hundreds of volunteers around the country. The result is False Conviction: Innocence, Guilt, and Science.

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