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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. When a participatory activity is designed without a goal in mind, you end up with a bunch of undervalued stuff and nowhere to put it. What's the "use" of visitors' comments? That's hardly revolutionary.

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Upcoming Nonprofits Live: Storytelling and Collaborative Video

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We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video. Productions.

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Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

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You could spend a day getting lost in the meaty, thoughtful writing and videos on the Our Museum site. Most participatory projects were short-term, siloed innovations, not institutional transformations. As this video points out, critics make you swear. I recommend starting with the final report, No Longer Us and Them.

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Participation in Storytelling: Collaborative Video on Nonprofits Live

Tech Soup

We learn to use mobile production tools, cooperative social sites for group curation and unique filesharing services like Dropbox , Skype along with new tools like Instagram, WeVideo , Stroome and many new apps to edit our captured video and photos for story creation. Guests for Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Video. Productions.

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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. How can you describe user participation in a shared language that helps your team make the right decision for your project?

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Designing Interactives for Adults: Put Down the Dayglow

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They're playing video games. There are many participatory experiences that appeal primarily to adults, and they are designed distinctly for adults. For example, one of the little participatory projects we're doing now is on the butterfly effect. The language of the prompt--and the whole idea of the activity--is adult-oriented.

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Guest Post: Oh Snap! Experimenting with Open Authority in the Gallery

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It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. It's a bit complicated to explain in writing, but this video does a good job of summarizing the project. Visitor-contributed photos surround a collection piece in Carnegie Museum of Art's Oh Snap!