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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The program operates like a camp that is co-led by the teens involved.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. But what about visitors?

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My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

3 Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity Group Meeting. I'm the moderater for the NTEN online affinity group that focuses on Flickr for Nonprofits. 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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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. This example of using Flickr for exhibitions - both in Flickr and on the web site.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. The museums developed careful rules about what could and couldn't be shot, and how participants could upload their images to Flickr for use by the project. The Wikimedians knew that all of the images would be legal for use from a copyright perspective.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. Click is an exhibition process in three parts: The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. From Flickr User EJK. Flickr Farm. That's what I use and why I use it).

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