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Developing a Participatory, Provocative History Project at a Small Museum in Minnesota: Interview with Mary Warner

Museum 2.0

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County.

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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Digital Dumpster Fire: Tips to Handle Social and Online PR Problems ( Communications Networking Lunch). Mississauga, Ontario: Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo. Tuesday, April 4, 2017. Wednesday, April 5, 2017.

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Voters: Part 1 - Multimedia Tagging Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard." " They are using tags to aggregate voter-generated content about Minnesota's 2006 election and politics. The next step, of course, is to throw in a little remix and participatory media culture into it!

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Quick Hit: Nina on the Road

Museum 2.0

Many of the talks are related to The Participatory Museum and I will have books for sale on all of these forays. June 1-4 - I'll be working in Minneapolis and am scheduling a public talk at a local museum (likely the Walker Art Center or the Science Museum of Minnesota) during that week, details coming soon. May 17 - NYC.

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Month at the Museum, Part 1: A Video Contest that Delivers

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Why the Video Contest Worked Video contests are one of the most challenging kinds of participatory projects to pull off. I'm biased, because she's demonstrating a participatory project, but she was able to "show, not tell" her interest in engaging with people. I loved this video by Tracie Farrell.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

I used the example of two very different exhibitions that solicited visitor-contributed content: Playing with Science at the London Science Museum, and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. The Minnesota History Center team solicited visitor nominations for exhibition topics and then built an exhibition out of those contributions.

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Design for Social Engagement: Pointing at Exhibits

Museum 2.0

This blog often analyzes how websites, designed spaces, even dogs promote participatory experiences among users. Today, we look inward for a how-to on one type of participatory design as applied to museum exhibits. The photos above were provided by Paul Martin of the Science Museum of Minnesota from their award-winning exhibition RACE.

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