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A Radical, Simple Formula for Pop-Up Museums

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Pop-Up Museum [n]: a short-term institution existing in a temporary space. Over the past few years, there have been several fabulous examples of pop-up museums focusing on visitor-generated content. Maria Mortati runs the wonderful SF Mobile Museum , which roams the Bay Area showing mini-exhibits on evocative themes.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 2: Museums as Battlefields in the History Wars

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This post is the second in a series of reactions to Blueprint , a book chronicling the rise and fall of the Dutch Museum of National History (INNL) in 2008-2011. Anyone with such a brief in this day and age has their work cut out for them. In this sense, the NMA was deemed to have missed a trick.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 1: How Do You Create a Future-Thinking History Museum?

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Imagine you've just been tasked with developing an innovative, future-thinking national museum for your country's history. Blueprint is the story of a group of people who tried to create a Dutch Museum of National History (INNL). The Museum directors released Blueprint as a showcase for these plans.

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Six Museum-Related Blogs You Might Not Know About That Are Really Good

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I believe that the museum blogosphere is still underdeveloped and there's lots of room for people to share their inspiration, experience, and ideas. If you need a good reason to read her blog, sit down for an afternoon with this incredible talk she gave in 2008 at an arts marketing summit and prepare to be blown away. you get the idea.

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HOW TO: Get Your Nonprofit Started on Pinterest

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I haven’t been this hooked on a new social networking site since I first got on Twitter in June 2008, and based on recent data released by comScore and Hitwise, Pinterest traffic is soaring. The names can be edited later, but to begin pinning create and name a couple Pinboards based on the causes that your nonprofit works for.

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How To: Put Technology to Use (October 2008)

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Your guide to the resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause. The Rapleaf Business blog also has some great advice on incorporating user generated content instead of working from scratch. Or the Women's Museum. This month, all of the links are courtesy of We Are Media. Share Your Story. Balderdash!

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Lead or Follow: Arts Administrators Hash it Out

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He made a comment on Michael Kaiser's fairly formulaic "great artists lead the nation" post, laying bare the banality of most of the language used to describe and present art experiences to the public. The way we talk about our work helps shape its importance to current and potential audiences.

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