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Curate Your Own Membership: An Interview with the Whitney's Director of Membership

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Second, in 2008 and 2009, when the economy dipped and membership renewal rates started to soften, we started to think more seriously about the emotional factor of supporting the arts in the community. We saw an opportunity to really differentiate ourselves, the way we do with our exhibitions and programs. Projects interview membership.

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The 2016 - 2017 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

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The Digital Media and Learning Conference is meant to be an inclusive, international and annual gathering of scholars and practitioners in the field, focused on fostering interdisciplinary and participatory dialogue and linking theory, empirical study, policy, and practice. Each fall since 2008 MNN has hosted an annual conference and expo.

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Pointing at Exhibits, Part 2: No-Tech Social Networks

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I've spent the last two weeks working on the third chapter of my book about network effects of social participation. When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." Nor would that information necessarily be compelling to most visitors.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

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While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project. This spring, I was a member of the advisory board for the New Media Consortium's 2008 Horizon Report on emerging technologies in museums. So when do wikis work?

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