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

Museum 2.0

This list is by no means exhaustive: please add your favorites (especially non-American ones) in the comments. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. As Streb explains, "SLAM is an open-access venue that models a new kind of artist-driven community institution.

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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? Here are two examples: Our Youth Programs Manager, Emily Hope Dobkin, wanted to find a way to support teens at the museum. My answer: neither. Subjects to Change was born.

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Temple Contemporary and the Puzzle of Sharing Powerful Processes

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They were there for artist talks. Every other year, they convene TUPAC, a group of 35 outside advisors, including teens, college students, Temple University professors, artists, philanthropists, and community leaders. The cuts were so deep that school music rooms are full of unplayable instruments.

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ISO Understanding: Rethinking Art Museum Labels

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The collection is disaggregated, grouped by floor (Painting and Sculpture 1) rather than artist, movement, time period, or geography. Most featured Name of Artist, Name of Piece, Year of Execution, Materials. How long did it take this artist to make this piece? Did the artist like it? Did the artist like it?

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Building Community Bridges: A "So What" Behind Social Participation

Museum 2.0

A group in their late teens/early 20s were wandering through the museumwide exhibition on love. They were in a playful mood, talking about the objects, playing the games, responding on the comment boards. When I walked by the first time, the teens were collaging and Kyle and Stacey were talking. Next time, everyone was talking.