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NTEN Leadership: Jane Messeck at Microsoft Community Affairs

NTEN

Take KEXP.org in Seattle. Their mission is to connect people to the world through music. Tags: Leadership Leadership microsoft NPTech. It would be easy for this little radio station to be satisfied with efficiency. Sure, they can make their content available online so they can reach MORE audience with less work.

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How Useful is the "Audience vs. Expert" Dichotomy?

Museum 2.0

I've been thinking about this as I prep some interactive prototypes for the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum, a Seattle-based museum of pop culture. One prototype is based on the Billboard Top 10 charts for pop music. It features more musical genres, more women, and more chronological spread.

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Museums and Relevance: What I Learned from Michael Jackson

Museum 2.0

By a strange and lucky coincidence, I was at the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum (EMPSFM) in Seattle for a two-day workshop. Michael Jackson belongs at EMPSFM (and visitors knew to find him there) because that museum is about pop culture and specifically music. Tags: visitors. I think I'm ok with that.

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In Praise of Tiny Failures

Museum 2.0

Last week, I prototyped four exhibit ideas with the Experience Music Project in Seattle. Tags: design comfort. And so I'd like to extoll a humble kind of failure: the small one that makes you laugh, learn, and move on to the next thing. Three were hits. One was a total dud.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet.

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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 ). The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs. Tags: guest blogging participatory.

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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 ). The Denver Art Museum's Side Trip poses many specific questions about visitors' experiences with psychedelic rock music, concerts, and drugs. Tags: Talking to Strangers design. I'm genuinely interested in your answer.