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Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook"

Forum One

Presented a nice paradigm for to model/plan citizen engagement: from outreach. NIH has had some great experience with its " Drug Fact Chat Day " an annual day for teens to chat online with NIH experts. I like the tag line for the TSA blog - "Terrorists Evolve. Tags: Government Strategy. News: InformationWeek ?

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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. As Streb explains, "SLAM is an open-access venue that models a new kind of artist-driven community institution. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences.

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New Models for Community Partnerships: Museums Hosting Meetups

Museum 2.0

Librarian Aaron Schmidt tells the great story of a game night of Dance, Dance, Revolution at his library in which a teen asked him: “Hey Aaron, can I go upstairs to grab a magazine and book to read?” Tags: web2.0 Several libraries have started to offer gaming nights where you can drink soda and play Wii to your heart's content.

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Participatory Design Vs. Design for Participation: Exploring the Difference

Museum 2.0

I once worked on a project where the main goal behind our community-based participatory model was to make our exhibit process faster and cheaper. And that's a major monkey wrench in the standard models for how museums operate, staff, and fund their work. Tags: design participatory museum. But it's never done.

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Book Club Part 6: Getting People in the Door

Museum 2.0

The New York Hall of Science’s Career Ladder successfully recruits and advances neighborhood teens as floor explainers, and their full-time staff includes many people who have come “up through the ranks.” I think the religious institution model is a particularly interesting one.

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8 Ways Nonprofits Can Help P2P Fundraisers Meet & Exceed Their Goals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

your connection to soccer, teens, nonprofits, Classy, etc.). Pro tip: tag your top donors in the post as a shoutout. Your generous gift provides role models, health education, life skills, and linkages to health services to young people in Africa at a critical point in their lives. Make it more personal to you (i.e.

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Visitor Voices Part 3: Co-Creating and Control

Museum 2.0

The Exploratorium's Nanoscape project, in which visitors and volunteers built giant walk-through models of nanoscale structures, had a different kind of impact; instead of displaying visitors' unique expressions of self, it displayed the power of collective action by visitors, harnessed by an institution. Not for us.

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