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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. Famous on MySpace and to teens across the world, outside of MySpace they are hardly known. MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool. They are all on MySpace.

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web. Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content. And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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Meditations on Relevance, Part 3: Who Decides What's Relevant?

Museum 2.0

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Who interprets the interests of the community and decides on the relevant themes and activities for the year? The program works because it is teen-centered, not museum-centered.

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Year Three as a Museum Director. Thrived.

Museum 2.0

Over the past three years, we''ve tripled our attendance, doubled our budget, and, most importantly, established deep and diverse relationships with community members, artists, and organizations across Santa Cruz County. I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. In the meantime, here are some.

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Museum 2.0

These are all active social endeavors that contribute positive value to the social Web. Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content. And yet many museums are fixated on creators.

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How Different Types of Museums Approach Participation

Museum 2.0

Because of the incredible popularity of genealogy as an activity, history museums are also excellent places for visitor-generated or -supported research projects (e.g. This means that an activity construed as educational (i.e. This means that an activity construed as educational (i.e. Children of the Lodz Ghetto ).

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. In the case of MN150, staff historians worked actively to verify and connect with contributors on any contentious topics. This was particularly true for Click!,

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