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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Digital Dumpster Fire: Tips to Handle Social and Online PR Problems ( Communications Networking Lunch). Dublin, Ireland: VR for Social Impact. Mississauga, Ontario: Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo.

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Design for Social Engagement: Pointing at Exhibits

Museum 2.0

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. The photos above were provided by Paul Martin of the Science Museum of Minnesota from their award-winning exhibition RACE.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

Impact Foundary / McClellan Park, CA / $200. Your great work will be validated, and you will be energized to move beyond current paradigms and find innovative ways to increase your impact. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Annual Conference. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Annual Conference. Impact Convergence 2016.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. We’ll examine how to harness tools for nurturing positive outcomes and amplifying impact. 2016 IMPACT Conference. 2016 IMPACT Conference. 38th Annual Nonprofit Conference. Accounting.

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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 By the way, the Brooklyn team just won the Groundswell award for social impact , which is sort of like winning an Oscar for social media.) Here are some highlights: Exhibitions that integrate crowdsourcing and co-design, including Click!

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

Kathleen McLean (Independent Exhibitions), Dan Spock (Minnesota History Center), and Kris Morrissey (University of Washington) all shared thought-provoking and useful insights on visitor participation in museums, but Mark Allen and Emily Lacy brought down the house with their bluegrass rendering of the Machine Project and its engaging, quirky work.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. So, for example, when we were working on a community policing project, I used to work in Minnesota, and about 15 years ago, we had another wave of immigrants, refugees that came from Southeast Asia and different countries from Africa. How do we do this well?