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Great Participatory Processes are Open, Discoverable, and Unequal

Museum 2.0

Dan writes about the explicit and implied "rules" of participation for musicians that create great music both onstage and for the crowd. When I think about what makes for great participatory experiences in both poetry open mics and jazz jams, it comes down to three basic things: The process is open. The process is discoverable.

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Why Cloud for Good Is Excited About Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC22)

Cloud 4 Good

In addition to the education and inspiration, NTEN is promoting accessibility, equity, and inclusivity like never before with dedicated racial affinity spaces, meditation sessions, and even virtual art galleries and live music. For more information on 22NTC, including how to register, visit nten.org/ntc.

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

The Modern Nonprofit

Track participation data to inform future outreach efforts. Consider featuring traditional music, dance, theater, or martial arts groups from the community. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators. Aim to create an inclusive, welcoming atmosphere that brings together diverse AAPI communities and builds bonds.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Visitors bond and bridge through participatory experiences at MAH. It’s not solely about how museums can serve communities but rather what are the communities’ resources, knowledge and interests that can inform museum practice? I learn a ton from her every day and wanted to share her thinking--and her graduate thesis--with you.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon: Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: guest blogging participatory. Submitted by Nina Simon, publisher of Museum 2.0

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What's a Watt Stopper? My First FLIP Camera Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can combine clips, cut clips, add a title or music. There's also a YouTube Channel with some how-to videos and lots of other useful information. How To Make Internet TV : From the participatory culture foundation, an step-by-step guide. Here some basic information from TechSmith. . For example, storytelling.

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Socially enabling your mission – how nonprofits can benefit from online communities

Connection Cafe

And TJ Muehleman added a few points about integration that are music to any nonprofit’s ears: the level of integration we are seeing now between community platforms and organizationss databases is better than ever before! Make it about your constituents and provide the tools and information most important to them 5.