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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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Becoming Generous Thieves: Notes from the Museums in Conversation Keynote

Museum 2.0

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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Quick Hit: 2010 Horizon Report on New Technologies and Museums

Museum 2.0

The folks at the New Media Consortium have released their annual Horizon Report , a roundup of up-and-coming technologies relevant to museums, archives, and libraries. The Horizon Reports ARE really useful if you need arsenal to explain the relevance, utility, or educational value of new technologies in your museum.

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Blackbaud Index for February 2011

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These organizations are defined by Giving USA as museums of all kinds, historical societies, humanities organizations; and media and communication charities, including public broadcasting. Bell, President, American Association of Museums (AAM). This trend is based on $19 million in 12-month revenue from 153 organizations.

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Pointing at Exhibits, Part 2: No-Tech Social Networks

Museum 2.0

This can be an incredibly technical topic, as it focuses on the ways that platforms (online, exhibits, museums) can harness the individual activities of many visitors and create meaningful experiential outputs that connect people to each other. But designing an entire museum that functions this way probably isn't your goal. exhibition.

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Creating Your Organization's Social Media Strategy Map

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Josh Bernhoff, Social Technographics 2008 3. This is mostly email marketing -- crafting and putting out solid email newsletters and communications which includes having an adequate CRM (constituent relationship management) software and email broadcasting software. Is there an “offline” marketing push that you need to support/connect?