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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Inside the Design of an Amazing Museum Project to Capture People's Stories

Museum 2.0

Recently, we''ve been talking at our museum about techniques for capturing compelling audio/video content with visitors. Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank.

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

Song Reader didn''t come as a CD, or an LP, or a bunch of digital audio files. There are many artistic projects that offer a template for participation, whether a printed play, an orchestral score, or a visual artwork that involves an instructional set (from community murals to Sol LeWitt). There are twenty songs in Song Reader.

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How Do You Capture Compelling Visitor Stories? Interview with Christina Olsen

Museum 2.0

Your recording booth asks participants for audio stories plus photos of themselves with their objects. We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. We came up with a system that was much more structured and is based on audio, not video. We had planned on having it be video.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Send a video or audio “thank you” through social media or email. Sometimes a nonprofit has access to world-class chefs, celebrities, artists, or architects or well-known lawmakers. Throughout the year you can connect with other donors and funders and the people we serve (artists, students, activists).”.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Our new catalog and website will be up within the next two months.

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Adventures in Artist-Driven Public Engagement: Machine Project at the Hammer Museum

Museum 2.0

What happens when a formal art museum invites a group of collaborative, participatory artists to be in residence for a year? Will the artists ruin the museum with their plant vacations and coatroom concerts? Will the bureaucracy of the institution drown the artists in red tape? No, this is not a reality TV show.

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Impressions of the Palm Pre

Robert Weiner

You can click the function key next to the letter Z (I gather it's orange on Sprint's model, but not on Verizon's) to simulate arrow keys, but it's still hard to move around. You can select albums, artists, genres, songs, or playlists -- so far so good. Clicking on text is much more challenging than with a stylus. Miscellaneous.

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