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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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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. It's Not All About You: Respecting Your Users Dinosaur to Digital: A Museum Convergence Success Story. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

Museum 2.0

It's a place for Scratch users to upload, share, and remix their Scratch projects. Here is the user profile by age circa July 2008 (per this report ). You can also remix other projects. It was a serious improvement on tools like Logo Turtle and Hypercard that I grew up with. but still, a programming environment.

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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. Beth Kanter, Social Media Strategy Is Everywhere in the Organization - Indianapolis Museum of Art. Watch other nonprofits and copy and remix for your next project. Beth Kanter, “ Ten Free Resources for Social Media Audience Research for Nonprofits. Tactics and Tools. Rinse, repeat.

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Sharing Power, Holding Expertise: The Future of Authority Revisited

Museum 2.0

Their questions made me think about a blog post I wrote in 2008, The Future of Authority. letting museum visitors contribute and collaborate in museums), I now see this as a crucial issue also for more democratic and inclusive practice (i.e. Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" Me: "Sort of."