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Your Local Tech4Good Club Is Ready to Help

Tech Soup

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. The workshops topics included. Mississauga, Ontario: Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? 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.

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Two Years Later

Museum 2.0

at the Brooklyn Museum , Tech Virtual at The Tech , and MN150 at the Minnesota History Center. (By But enough of these experiences have convinced me that the participatory museum is not a fringe concept. And people aren't just thinking about this stuff; many museums have taken real, exciting action in the last year. There is funding.

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Foot in the Door: A Powerful Participatory Exhibit

Museum 2.0

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. The rules are clear: anyone who lives in Minnesota and considers her/himself an artist can contribute one piece. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

Everyaction

The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Annual Conference. 11/28/2016.

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Pointing at Exhibits, Part 2: No-Tech Social Networks

Museum 2.0

And it's brought me back to a blog post I wrote a year ago about the Science Museum of Minnesota's Race: Are We So Different? Design Implications The "pointiness" of an exhibit is a metric that reflects the extent to which the content motivates visitors to share things with strangers and friends alike. exhibition.

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[VIDEO] Power Of Community In Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

So then we’ll talk about what are some participatory planning methods. The things that I tell you will not stick unless you are able to reflect upon your own experience and go, “Ah, yes, I think this is what Julie is talking about. ” That reflection is really important. . How do we do this well?