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Want to Co-Create an Exhibition on a Hot Issue? Introducing the Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit

Museum 2.0

Two years ago, our team at the MAH embarked on our most challenging co-creation project ever. We partnered with foster youth, former foster youth, artists, and community advocates to create an exhibition that used art to spark action on issues facing foster youth. This project wove together many different participatory threads.

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

Tech Soup

If you're trying launch a project, like a community center or a film festival, KickStarter or Indiegogo might be the way to go. The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected.

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Which Crowdfunding Platform Is Best for Your Organization?

Tech Soup

If you're trying launch a project, like a community center or a film festival, KickStarter or Indiegogo might be the way to go. The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected.

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Are Crowd Funding Platforms the New Patrons of Independent Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Little Golden books from my childhood, non-fiction books that revolutionized my perspective of the world and novels that I rarely take the luxury of reading. Dollars help make independent projects possible. And, this month, Sam is raising money to support a new documentary called Wisconsin Rising on the kickstarter platform.

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PostSecret: Lessons in Meaningful User-Generated Content

Museum 2.0

But today I had an experience that reinvigorated my love for and belief in tangible projects that can fill museums with content that is user-generated, shared, and explored. Each secret can be a regret, hope, funny experience, unseen kindness, fantasy, belief, fear, betrayal, erotic desire, feeling, confession, or childhood humiliation.

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Curated Collaborative Filtering: Listening to Pandora

Museum 2.0

You enter a seed artist or song (or several) and Pandora starts playing music that it interprets as related in some way to your selections. It doesn’t just group artists together and play music by similar musicians. Pandora is a model for an alternative. Users of Pandora are protective of the Music Genome Project experts.

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Competition in the Gallery

Museum 2.0

They modeled the competition after the British NPG’s well-established competition. They received over 4,000 submissions from all 50 states, which were judged by a panel of seven—including museum staff and outside artists. Perhaps the most well-thought-out piece of this project is its web component. I could be a part of this.

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