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Instead of Selling Objects, Build Public Trust

Museum 2.0

When Detroit was going bankrupt in 2013, the city's emergency manager fought to sell off some of the prized artworks in the Detroit Institute of Art. Two years ago, the Detroit Institute of Art won the battle to keep their treasured artwork in the museum. It could even happen on a national scale.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

On Monday morning, the 2004 National Book Award winners in fiction and nonfiction were made live on our Bookshare.org site, providing rapid access to these books to readers with disabilities. Bookshare.org News. Bookshare.org has the ability to move quickly! Both of these books are timely additions to the Bookshare collection.

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Feelings and Participation

Museum 2.0

Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums. The Pointe aCalliere in Montreal does a good job of disseminating actual content in an immersive light/ content show that overlays an actual archeological site.

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Interview with Jodie Van Horn of Freedom from Oil and Plug-in Bay Area

Have Fun - Do Good

I talked with Jodie Van Horn, a campaigner for Rainforest Action Network 's Freedom From Oil campaign, and the coordinator for Plug-In Bay Area about the plug-in campaign in the Bay Area as well as the national Freedom from Oil Campaign. Below is a transcript from the interview, which you can also listen to on the Big Vision Podcast.

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Guest Post: World Maker Faire and the New York Hall of Science: Radical Trust

Museum 2.0

It’s worth mentioning that the Henry Ford Museum in Detroit also hosted a Maker Faire at their facility this year. If you do something great and exciting for families in Queens, you are going to get a virtual United Nations of visitors. We also met with key members of the maker community in New York and nationally. Why at NYSCI?

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Substack for Nonprofit Communications

Nonprofit Tech for Good

You can promote and house books, notes, podcasts, and more on the site. This is why housing content on your own site is good option – but if you want quick traffic increases it is going to be hard to do that organically. Stable Technology: The content is technically solid, has a lot of funding and easy to navigate.