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How you can foster sustainable innovation within your nonprofit

ASU Lodestar Center

This is where participatory practice comes in to play. Participatory practice is a concept which means giving voice to those in the community who know the issues best, and then planning and organizing solutions to these issues using the resources of the nonprofit to implement solutions.

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Adventures in Participatory Audience Engagement at the Henry Art Gallery

Museum 2.0

This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program. In 2009 , students built a participatory exhibit from scratch. This isn't participatory rocket science, but the power of being able to see how you have contributed to a growing collection or project in real time is powerful.

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Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies?

Museum 2.0

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? You join the Brooklyn Museum’s posse.

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Military Communications in the Age of Social Media

Forum One

Earlier this week, I addressed the topic of social media in the military and government on a panel at The Army and The Navy Club in Washington, DC. I did not see this as undermining the principles of Open Government, as defined in the Open Government Directive.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

DMA / Washington, DC / Not available. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Washington, DC / Not available. Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) / Washington, DC / Not available. Join us in Washington, D.C., Washington Nonprofit Legal and Tax Conference. Strategic. Strategic.

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Quick Hit: Upcoming Experiments and Workshops

Museum 2.0

I’m teaching a course on social technology at the University of Washington Museology program this spring, and we’ve decided to open up a FREE workshop on participatory design for museum practitioners and other students on the afternoon of the 24th (thank you, UW).

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Quick Hit: My Work with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

Museum 2.0

But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. OK, so we made up the last couple of those prohibitions. We painted a big map of the western U.S.

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