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NTEN Leading Change Summit #14lcs: Reflection

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The Leading Change Summit was more intimate (several hundred people), participatory and interactive, intense, and stimulating. And while anything you do the first time will not be perfect and in many cases stressful, in the end it was a good experience. Defining Roles. I like to use a rock band metaphor.

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How I Got Here

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Anna had been the founding Curator of Education at the National Building Museum, led the Rolling Rainforest project, and was a real innovator in developing in-depth participatory design experiences with community members (though I wouldn't have used those words at the time). It was exhausting, stressful work, and I loved it.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

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But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. The Shooting Script Colonizing Social Spaces , looked more broadly at the benefits and drawbacks of museums utilzing social networking sites. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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Strange(r) Encounters: Conditions for Engagement

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I've written before about techniques for talking to strangers, looking at how buttons , buses , and dogs and can all be tools for participatory design. I used that instruction recently to kick off a meeting at a museum planning a participatory education space. These activities are not always grounds for participatory encounters.

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Lean Impact Series: 10 Changemakers Using Lean Startup Methods For Greater Social Impact

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They also started small and low-cost with the automated phone call system: instead of taking the time and money to build out interactive voice response technology, a Fasal team member recorded the “automated” voice behind the phone by reading call scripts. Linda Robinson, Gateway Green (Board Chair).

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

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I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. Here's the script from the screencast written back in October. Maybe it is more like moment capture.