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Making Museum Tours Participatory: A Model from the Wing Luke Asian Museum

Museum 2.0

She did several things over the course of the tour to make it participatory, and she did so in a natural, delightful way. This brought other voices into the tour, but more importantly, it modeled a potential interaction that we could have. Think about how this impacts staff recruiting and training. What made it so special?

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E-Mediat: Networked Capacity Building in the Middle East

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m the lead for Zoetica for this project where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as a sort of meta network weaver. Deliver targeted, cutting-edge social media training and coaching to 150 – 250 NGOs and CSOs in 15+ communities.

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

Museum 2.0

What does the word "participatory" mean to you? The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation. This isn't just a rhetorical question.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To make this model work, there was another IRC backchannel that streamed audio from the conference and someone did the equivalent of live tweeting. Tags: backchannel. I remember in 2005 the Global Voices Summit used IRC as a backchannel -- no so much for people in the room, but for remote participation. One of the reflections.

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"Press 2 for Chickens": Innovating African Radio Stations

NTEN

The participatory radio campaign approach was used to enhance existing systems, not add new content or processes to the farm radio stations. The projects at Radio Maria and Volta Star (and specifically in regards to Freedom Fone) were not without challenges and issues, including reliable hardware, cost, human error, power, and training. .

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Reflections on MuseumNext and Facilitating Brainstorming

Museum 2.0

Unconference sessions , featuring topics as diverse as "playing an ARG" (with real labyrinth adventures ), "engaging visitors who were dragged to the museum," and "measuring and defining success in participatory projects." If you need a source for good activities, there's a world of training methodologies on the web. Facilitator bits.

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Making Alternative Meaning out of Museum Artifacts

Museum 2.0

Of course, the objects were chosen for their pecularities, and in some cases, such as a giant licorice tricycle shaped like a shoe , the imagined usage (guide dog training distraction device) is almost as reasonable as the real thing (2000 Olympics closing ceremony vehicle). The participatory element is modeled well by the "official" content.

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