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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

It was started in 2003 and is run by Mark Allen and a collective of artists, many of whom have also been applying their talents by performing "interventions" at formal art institutions including LACMA, the Hammer Museum, and the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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Making Alternative Meaning out of Museum Artifacts

Museum 2.0

Last month, I met an artist who was part of a group that created a renegade podcast tour for the Portland Art Museum. Seeing the content from the Odditoreum made me reflect on all the art pieces I've seen in which artists comment on regular life or objects in some way. Tags: exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world. That's hardly revolutionary. The site gives credit to contributors.

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What Could Kill an Elegant, High-Value Participatory Project?

Museum 2.0

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. Or, so I thought. Of course I asked her why.

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Guest Post by Stacey Monk: Dogooders Won’t Change the World (Alone)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just yesterday I read a tweet that called the #nonprofit twitter tag a “cavernous echo chamber.” They’re jocks, geeks, artists, musicians and cheerleaders…and we need their help. Tags: guest blogging. Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. To be truthful, I’d rather hang out with you than just about anybody. CHRISTOPHER R.

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Guest Post by Lina Srivastava: Building Cultural Engagement for Change Through Media and Narrative

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social media, in particular, offers a day-to-day alternative to annual reports, press releases and grant reports in showing direct impact in a consistent, immediate way. Tags: movement building. This post originally appeared on Lina's blog Strategy for Social Change.

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Ask Britt: How Do I Promote My Do-Good Book Online?

Have Fun - Do Good

The author of Social Software in Libraries hosted an Alternative Book Cover contest. You can email me your question (please keep it to 50 words) about the do-good, or artistic work you are doing, or want to do, to britt@brittbravo.com. Tags: askbritt. Photo Credit: Photo of me answering your questions (: taken by my hubs.

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