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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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Two Years Later

Museum 2.0

at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. There is funding. Here are some highlights: Exhibitions that integrate crowdsourcing and co-design, including Click!

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

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. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Annual Conference. 11/28/2016.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits / Minneapolis, MN / Less than $200. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits / Minneapolis, MN / Price TBA. Join the Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits as we challenge presenters and attendees to engage one another across difference. Donor Relations. Associations.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. And funding opportunities, I’ve experienced, start to kind of just roll in. Too many of us have experienced programs that pulled out right when they’re doing so well because funding has changed, right? How do we do this well?

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How False Conviction Could Help Science Centers Be More Human

Museum 2.0

I cut out from the meeting by myself to check out an exhibition called Open House, if These Walls Could Talk at the Minnesota History Center. I keep in my head a Venn diagram that has three circles--one is passion, the second is funding, and the third is audience. Not that it was sad, but that it was human. This project had that feel.

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