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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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Foot in the Door: A Powerful Participatory Exhibit

Museum 2.0

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. This is what happened at the Oakland Museum of California, which used its very successful co-creative Days of the Dead project as a kind of template for participatory redesign.

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Trainer’s Notebook: Finding Inspiration and New Ideas for Facilitation Techniques

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I always learn something from his participatory style, humor, and techniques. Here’s a few things I learned. Good participatory design and instructional design for that matter needs a closure exercise. There are usually two aspects of this. The first is on a practice level – what should happen next?

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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

Have Fun - Do Good

LINK LOVE Bay Area folks, join me November 15th for Jennifer Lee's Right-Brain Business Plan Workshop in Oakland. Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. Early registration deadline is Nov. Green Blogger Convention To Kick Off In Los Angeles Next Month on Eco razzi.

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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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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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Improving Family Exhibitions by Co-Creating with Children

Museum 2.0

Every once in a while I come across a project I wish I could have included in The Participatory Museum. it's a Secret! , What made Shh. it's a Secret! It started with a real institutional need. The Learning Staff wanted to develop a family-friendly exhibition, and they couldn't figure out what to focus on.