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Want to Get Your Content Out There? Put it on Wikipedia.

Museum 2.0

For example, for the Brooklyn Museum's recent exhibition on women and pop art, Seductive Subversion , curatorial intern Rebecca Shaykin was assigned to improve (and write) Wikipedia articles on the 25 artists profiled in the show. It doesn't live on "your" page, open only for user comments and site-driven advertising.

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Guest Post: Weaving Community Collaborations into Permanent Installations at the Denver Art Museum

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The DAM is one of several large art museums that is embracing making in a big way—first, through their event-based programming and open art studios tied to temporary exhibitions, and now, through a 1,200 square foot studio in which visitors can do art projects tied to the permanent collection.

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Challenges, Rules, and Epic Wins: Using Game Design to Build Visitor Loyalty

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Last week, as part of my museum's year-long Loyalty Lab project , we hosted a workshop for Bay Area museum professionals with special guests Ian Kizu-Blair and Sam Lavigne of the game design firm Situate. Ian and Sam asked us to design three seemingly-simple things: a challenge to overcome, rules to master, and a win condition to celebrate.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Goal of the centennial project was to shine the light on the library’s resources and get new audiences engaged in the collections and connected to the curators and staff. Staged a major exhibition celebrating the spectrum of what is in the library, public programs partners with The Moth. Syed Salahuddin – Babycastles.

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Steal these 42 Creative Pinterest Ideas for Nonprofits

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Hold a Santa-Con celebration to get in the Christmas spirit, get pictures of people's paint-smeared faces at Holi, take advantage of when neighborhood kids show up to trick-or-treat at your door. Pin your students science fair projects. Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. If you're a foundation: 25.

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Memo from the Revolution: Six Things I've Learned from our Institutional Transformation

Museum 2.0

When we work with diverse collaborators, from opera singers and ukelele players to knitters and graffiti artists, we catalyze new partnerships and relationships that make our community stronger and more cohesive. We may not have funding for your project, but we won''t tie it up in red tape either. Exploit your size.

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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

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. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project.