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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

Beck''s project is unusual because he deliberately resurrected a mostly-defunct participatory platform: sheet music for popular songs. In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nina has written a fantastic book engagement called The Participatory Museum. A third argues that the project won’t be truly participatory unless users get to define what content is sought in the first place. I’ve been using these participatory categories to talk about how we’d like users to participate in different projects.

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Get on the Bus: How Mass Transit Design Affects Participatory Potential

Museum 2.0

posts called "Unusual Projects and Influences." Specifically, we analyze the relative social behavior of people on buses versus those on trains, and look for clues as to what design elements contribute to different kinds of participatory behavior. The voices are recorded, the doors perpetually closing. People talk.

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Nonprofit SXSW Goodness – Conference List Toppers, To-Dos and Topics of Interest

Connection Cafe

Let them show you how to create an organic net-roots movement that upends traditional power structures and galvanizes your community.". Across the country, geeks inside and outside of government are developing a new model for a participatory and transparent Federal, State and Municipal governments. Data will be shared!

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Designing Talkback Platforms for Different Dialogic Goals

Museum 2.0

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. By simplifying and personalizing the design technique used for the institutional voice, visitors felt like they were part of a natural conversation with the institution. "Where were you last night?"

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Facilitation: The Secret Ingredient for Successful Participatory Decision-Making in Philanthropy

sgEngage

It often takes clarity of roles and purview and even some structure to do that. In our years of talking to staff, boards, and communities about participatory philanthropy, people often talk about their worst participatory decision-making experiences. New to Participatory Grantmaking?

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Thoughts on 3six5, a Successful Participatory Project

Museum 2.0

Yesterday, I had the delightful opportunity to participate in the 3six5 project , a yearlong participatory project in which 365 people write 365 journal entries for every day of 2010. The reward for participants of having your contribution displayed is fairly and clearly structured. It showcases diverse voices.