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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2009, the foundation began by harvesting almost a thousand proposals for future directions from community members through online crowd-sourcing. The organization invited anyone, including these volunteers and its millions of readers, to help develop the plan. ” Paul Connolly.

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Adventures in Artist-Driven Public Engagement: Machine Project at the Hammer Museum

Museum 2.0

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Several artists offer surprising insights into making participatory projects appealing to visitors. Frequently, we get stuck on developing participatory projects or events that serve as many people as possible.

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

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). Anna accepted my proposal.

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The One-Look Virus and Immersive Environments for Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I don't think she is saying SL is a fad that will go away as other people without her depth of knowledge have articulated. more preposterous than proposing an immersive MUVE communications revolution). principles that has turned the web from pushed to participatory. I also have been around this. immersive social space camp as.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

When you speak in the language of the institutional mission, executives will understand you better and be attentive to the new connections you draw from the mission to proposed projects. What new projects might allow you to better reflect those aspirations? Second, you need to find the right tool to implement your idea.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

Museum 2.0

People who work with non-professionals on participatory projects often talk about finding "neutral" sites for meetings or meeting on their (the non-professionals') territory. We certainly did the latter but only learned about the importance of the former late in the process. Level the playing field or tip it in their favor.

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Using societal context knowledge to foster the responsible application of AI

Google Research AI blog

When the societal context in which a product will operate is not articulated well enough to result in robust problem understanding, the resulting ML solutions can be fragile and even propagate unfair biases. The first phase of AI product development is problem understanding , and this phase has tremendous influence over how problems (e.g.,