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Adventures in Participatory Audience Engagement at the Henry Art Gallery

Museum 2.0

In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. Thirteen students produced three projects that layered participatory activities onto an exhibition of artwork from the permanent collection of the Henry Art Gallery. This year, we took a different approach.

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Trainer’s Notebook: The Importance of Hands-On Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For the past five years, I’ve been an adjunct professor at Middlebury College in Monterey teaching a graduate course called “ Networked International Organizations ” for students pursuing an advanced degree in International Development. Rather than just talk about the campaign, students has to participate.

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What Is a Story and Why You Need To Tell Them

The Storytelling Non-profit

It’s participatory. My clients and students who have found the most success in their storytelling efforts are those who understand that storytelling is really about a process. Here’s an article I wrote about process-thinking in storytelling and another article I wrote on how to map out your own storytelling process. .

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How Digital Democracy Empowers Marginalized Communities

Tech Soup

This work included developing a secure system to track, map, and report incidents of gender-based violence; an emergency hotline; and media training to support women in documenting and sharing their experiences. This is best done in a participatory fashion, making sure that data is available offline. Gaining Trust with Local Partners.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons.

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17 Ways We Made our Exhibition Participatory

Museum 2.0

It is multi-disciplinary, incorporates diverse voices from our community, and provides interactive and participatory opportunities for visitor involvement. This post focuses on one aspect of the exhibition: its participatory and interactive elements. So many museum exhibitions relegate the participatory bits in at the end.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide your students to conversations and resources. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. Hiring people. The power of Web2.0

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