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Guest Post: Collections Access - Open the Door Wider

Museum 2.0

Recently, several subscribers to the RCAAM (Registrar’sCommittee of AAM) listserv posted concerns about professional photographers and museum visitors taking photographs of objects on exhibition. I encountered strong push-back on the listserv, with one subscriber calling my fitness for my job title, “collections care trainer,” into question.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. Would staff members who hate photography be comparably disturbed by visitors sketching in the galleries?

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My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm hoping that video blogging can be spread to the nonprofit sectors - as a way for organizations to tell their stories and document their work. It's free and anyone can join, so if you are curious about nonprofit applications in flickr, come subscribe to the listserv and if you're going to the NTC, come join our meeting).

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Your first blog could even document your learnings and reflections about Web.20! Photography students use Flickr to post, organize, share, and critique their colleagues?????? Resource Collection off a listserv: [link]. Collaborative writing off a listserv: [link]. Tourism Campaigns or celebrate a place or county or state.

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