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The Move On Model: Inciting Visitor Social Action

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I spent Saturday in beautiful Monterey, ocean pounding outside the window of a conference room, where about 40 museum folks were pondering a question more elusive than the origin of the waves: can museums change the world? The Congo Gorilla Forest , is a special exhibition produced by the Wildlife Conservation Society at the Bronx Zoo.

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Game Friday: Vocabulary, Poverty, and Meaningful Score Keeping

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This week, Free Rice , a very casual game that can allow you to use your erudite mastery of the English language to provide rice to hungry people via the United Nations World Food Program (UN WFP). Many people do both in the same comment. To me, this is a really clever application of meaning to addictive gaming.

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Is Your Museum Website a Walled Garden?

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How can you make your museum website more effective in driving traffic and raising awareness of your institution? Most people think this requires designing more sophisticated content (and it can). But there is a simpler, more impactful way for museum websites to become more visible, cited, and visited in the online landscape.

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