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Find the Charlie’s, Justine’s, and Edna’s in your network

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charlie the Artist. A cancer-surviving grandma in Denmark re-posts and says “den bedste!”. He went on to describe how to activate social voice by describing how these personas use social networks to share information about their favorite charities and fundraise for them. He was asked to donate to cancer charity. Friends “like” it.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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Museum 2.0 Rerun: Answers to the Ten Questions I Am Most Commonly Asked

Museum 2.0

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. In Denmark and Amsterdam, I experienced radical dialogue programs like Human Library , but also a strict formalism as to what happens in galleries.

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The Living Library: Using Our Institutions as New Models for Civic Dialogue

Museum 2.0

The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. A museum tour in which a docent "tours" you to a variety of volunteer artists who talk about how they create their work.

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Answers to the Ten Questions I am Most Often Asked

Museum 2.0

Art museums are the least likely to empower their own staff to initiate participatory projects but the most likely to work with artists whose approach to participation might be quite extreme. In Denmark and Amsterdam, I experienced radical dialogue programs like Human Library , but also a strict formalism as to what happens in galleries.