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Participatory Grantmaking: I’m in! Now what?

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You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Not sure if participatory grantmaking is for you or maybe you need a refresher on what it is? Is this you?

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Inside the Design of an Amazing Museum Project to Capture People's Stories

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They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they learned some unexpected lessons along the way. The proposal to Metlife was all video. Projects participatory museum storytelling usercontent' Lots of inspiring and practical tips below - enjoy!

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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

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Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." Facilitator bits. That said, the phrase "structured opportunity" is where MuseumNext suffered most.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

I also learned that the best money in museums for someone who's starting out is in art modeling. I survived the first half of 2003 financially on art modeling and poetry gigs. Anna accepted my proposal. It was like getting paid to process the day in a lovely setting.

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How Do You Capture Compelling Visitor Stories? Interview with Christina Olsen

Museum 2.0

They designed a participatory project that delivers a compelling end product for onsite and online visitors… and they made some unexpected decisions along the way. The proposal to Metlife was all video. How and why did Object Stories come to be? Why did you choose this format instead of video? We had planned on having it be video.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Being another layer over existing technologies, those who are comfortable with the current models can stay behind while the rest of us move up to the next level. SL is not some new revolutionary model that has never been seen before. more preposterous than proposing an immersive MUVE communications revolution).

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

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People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. Once we realized that virtual exhibits would not translate directly to the real world, we transitioned to a model where the real exhibits were "inspired by" the virtual.

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