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Your Official 17NTC Local's Guide to DC

EveryAction

Conveniently located across the street from NTC, Open City offers all-day breakfast, cappuccino and delicious pancakes. Treat yourself to an array of chaat (think savory snacks), delicious homemade breads (the kathi rolls are amazing), and a variety of other trendy dishes – including many meatless options. US Holocaust Memorial Museum.

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Self Care in the Museum Workplace

Connection Cafe

The following post was originally published on the Center for the Future of Museums blog. On Wednesday, August 8, over 300 museum professionals joined CFM director Elizabeth Merritt and Seema Rao, principal of Brilliant Idea Studio , to explore self-care in the museum workplace. But effort and efficacy are not the same.

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RIP: del.icio.us

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to PC World , Yahoo will shut down several of its Web properties, including Delicious, according to a leaked Yahoo presentation slide that was posted on Twitter. I met Joshua Schacter in 2005 at the Berkman Center and heard him speak shortly before delicious was acquired by Yahoo. I was hoping this was just a rumor.

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A Long Interview as I say Goodbye to the MAH (and Thoughts on the Privilege of Leading Change)

Museum 2.0

It's everything I hoped and feared: sweet, exciting, sad, poignant, and full of delicious treats and surprises from my loving, zany colleagues. I was proud to work with amazing colleagues to lead major change at the museum. We made it our mission to open the museum up. Some of our courageous team. We are strong together.

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Great reads from around the web on February 1st

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One

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The Systems of Work

Museum 2.0

I once sat next to a man who worked at a museum about transportation. I’d been starving, and we were being served a delicious hot lunch (Thank you Pennsylvania Museums Association.) In museum systems, the product and the means of production are intellectual and invisible. Many forms of labor are hard to quantify.

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Guest Post by Jasper Visser: Storytelling for Social Cohesion at Story House Belvédère

Museum 2.0

I first read about Story House Belvédère on Jasper Visser’s excellent blog, The Museum of the Future. I visited Story House Belvédère as part of the new Intangible Cultural Heritage and Museum Projects I am involved in. They found it in the old jazz club/boxing gym/neighborhood museum Belvédère, a building which dates back to 1894.