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Guest Post by Nina Simon: Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggl es with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice. Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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Socially enabling your mission – how nonprofits can benefit from online communities

Connection Cafe

And TJ Muehleman added a few points about integration that are music to any nonprofit’s ears: the level of integration we are seeing now between community platforms and organizationss databases is better than ever before! Below are my slides on best practices for building and managing an online community.

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Design Techniques for Developing Questions for Visitor Participation

Museum 2.0

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tough questions each of us struggles with in applying participatory design techniques to museum practice.

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Take a Side Trip to the Denver Art Museum

Museum 2.0

Side Trip is an immersive environment full of interactive experiences that let visitors share their own stories of the 1960s, make their own rock posters, and explore the music and vibe of the time. But it got really interesting when another visitor approached the second slide projector. It is an incredible museum experience.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. | View | Upload your own. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

Museum 2.0

This session was participatory in several ways, including interactive music-making machines in the audience and half the time reserved for Q&A. You can view and download all the slides here. Kathleen showed lots of participatory elements in the redesigned Oakland Museum of California.

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Don't Talk to Strangers? Safety 2.0

Museum 2.0

Imagine a music store where each CD lists the names of the last 20 people to pick it up, and what those people ultimately bought. Tags: participatory museum visitors. When we think of ways to extend the 2.0 social networking model to the real world, the implications of tracking, publishing, and spreading become obvious.

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