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Trusting community organizers to build a multiracial democracy

Candid

Fund, the San Francisco Foundation, and the California Wellness Foundation, have long partnered with power-building organizations such as Oakland Rising and statewide networks like PICO California. A number of funders, including The California Endowment, Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr.

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How Can You Attract New Audiences Without Alienating Your Base?

Museum 2.0

Most of my work contracts involve a conversation that goes something like this: "We want to find ways to make our institution more participatory and lively." Most museums that offer interactive exhibits, media elements, or participatory activities offer them alongside traditional labels and interpretative tools. Fabulous!" "But

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Wandering Down the "Don't Touch" Line

Museum 2.0

Engagement with local artists. One of the things we love about exhibiting local artists is that they are often here to talk with visitors about their work. This is only going to become a bigger issue for us as we invite in new audiences and incorporate more participatory experiences throughout the museum. We don't have guards.

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Quick Hit: Nina on the Road

Museum 2.0

Many of the talks are related to The Participatory Museum and I will have books for sale on all of these forays. April 29 - I'm heading to the Oakland Museum for the preview of its reopening. Here's the list for the next two months: April 14-17 - Denver for Museums and the Web conference. Both are open to the public. May 17 - NYC.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

I think at the national level we're always going to have The New York Times , CNN, and The Washington Post to do national investigations, but what we really are threatened to lose in the next year to five years is local investigations and local reporting. Obviously, local civic journalism is incredibly important to me.

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State Fairs and Visitor Co-Creation: An Interview about MN150

Museum 2.0

We put a public call on the Web first and sent a notice to our membership and some local and regional historical societies, preaching to the choir, starting that way. Local media was also interested; they were looking for content about the sesquicentennial. Projects interview design participatory museum usercontent.