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"It Is What It Is," and the Challenges of Dialogue-Focused Exhibits

Museum 2.0

A volunteer manager at a major US history museum once told me about a failed dialogue program in which older volunteers would sit in rocking chairs on an exhibit component themed to look like a front porch. Or this one of the team touring a farm in Tennessee and discussing the differences between American and Iraqi burial rituals.

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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, we had the Tennessee coal ash spill , which was billed as “the largest environmental disaster of its kind in the United States.&# Protests, natural disasters, sporting events, parties, political crises…real-time information about anything happening anywhere at any time, as well as the history of what happened.

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