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Developing a Participatory, Provocative History Project at a Small Museum in Minnesota: Interview with Mary Warner

Museum 2.0

Earlier this year, I was fascinated to read the account of a participatory project at the Morrison County Historical Society in Minnesota, in which community members were invited to write essays about “what’s it like” to have various life experiences in the County. Whenever we are creating content, we like to use it in a variety of formats.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Jude, Make A Wish, American Cancer Society, and The Museum of African American History. Chuck meets face to face with each local client, develops a strategy of not only how to meet each organizations’ goal, but beat it. His show, The Hype TV, provides content, red carpet coverage, and exclusive celebrity interviews on CBS.

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Month at the Museum, Part 1: A Video Contest that Delivers

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On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. This post is not about the Month at the Museum concept or implementation. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. That will come later.

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ASTC Recap: Questions, Colors, and Reflective Research

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Exhibit labels in science centers ask more questions than any other kinds of museums, and yet the questions are often awful--teacherly, overly rhetorical, and totally meaningless. asked by a cop or mother, garners the full attention of asker and askee alike, museum questions like "what is nanotechnology?," Download our slides here.

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Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation

Amy Sample Ward

Earlier this week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Minnesota Council for Nonprofits annual conference; and after my presentation, I spent a couple hours speaking with folks from various nonprofits, vendors and service organizations. Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? Why Community?

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Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

Black Youth Project — BYP has various local chapters. Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)— SURJ has various local chapters. Take time to celebrate your local community and find ways to support them during this time of celebration. We’ve highlighted a few events local to our offices: Bay Area Juneteenth Events.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 2: Talking

Museum 2.0

This is true whether you are talking about marketing text or exhibit content. Many museums have jumped into the middle level—producing their own content—without starting with commenting. Consider the path of the Bay Area Discovery Museum. Both are museum-run forums for visitors to post their own content and opinions.

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