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Navigation by Recommendation: Lessons Learned from a Little Experiment

Museum 2.0

I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. Bambi noted that she felt like she learned a lot more talking to twenty people for just a minute than trying to administer a two-page survey in the same amount of time.

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Research Friday: Strengthening the Economy through Civic Engagement

ASU Lodestar Center

When he visited America in 1831, French philosopher Alexis de Tocqueville was impressed with the way Americans from all walks of life gathered together in associations. Census Bureau’s 2010 Current Population Survey (CPS) of 50,000 households, which looked at the following measures to examine how communities weathered the recession.