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Celebrate, Educate, and Fundraise: Planning Winning AAPI Heritage Month Events

The Modern Nonprofit

Embarking on Your AAPI Heritage Month Journey Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, celebrated every May in the United States, provides an important opportunity to honor the history, culture, and achievements of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators.

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Visiting the Smithsonian On Vacation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There were a number of online/offline participatory visitor experiences. At the Natural History Museum, we visited the David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins , an immersive, interactive journey through the origins of human beings and the dramatic stories of survival and extinction in the midst of earth’s history of climate change.

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Fifteen Random Things I've Learned about Design for Participation This Year

Museum 2.0

We've been offering a host of participatory and interactive experiences at the Museum of Art & History this season. I loved Jasper Visser's list of 30 "do's" for designing participatory projects earlier this month. This isn't even participatory. Encourage gifting. It's just fun.

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Why I Blog

Museum 2.0

It feels like a real gift to myself (and hopefully, to you) to schedule all this content now and not have to worry about it when my baby is born. The greatest gift you can give me is your thoughtful comments. I spent the weekend queuing up posts for my forthcoming blog-cation--nine weeks of guest posts and reruns from the Museum 2.0

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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

Museum 2.0

One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 He''ll be able to watch how certain activities evolve into coordination and what kinds of histories the people who most easily coordinate have in common. game guestpost participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences'

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

--Helene Moglen, professor of literature, UCSC After a year of tinkering, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History is now showing an exhibition, All You Need is Love , that embodies our new direction as an institution. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Robert Newman: On the History of Oil (Robert if you are listening - I want to adopt ten babies to help run our idyllic post apocalyptic farmstead. I have about 20 regular subscribers now. Mostly people who run green blogs I suspect. I'd love some feedback on how it could be more useful. What is your favorite viral video find?

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