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Getting in on the Act: New Report on Participatory Arts Engagement

Museum 2.0

Why is a photography contest an example of "crowd sourcing" wheres a community drawing contest is an example of "audience-as-artist"? I counted at least five different schemes in the six-page section on "Participatory Arts in Practice," and none of these were explicitly referenced in the subsequent case studies.

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Steal these 42 Creative Pinterest Ideas for Nonprofits

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Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. In exhibits and galleries where photography is permitted, of course!) Build a Board of images modeling healthy food choices. Pin images showing the achievements of women you want to show as role-models in your community. Just use your beard!".

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Quick Hit: My Work with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

Museum 2.0

But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. OK, so we made up the last couple of those prohibitions. That doesn't entail a big, expensive redesign.

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Guest Post: A Tale of Two University Museums

Museum 2.0

The Siskind Center gives students and the public the opportunity to pore over the photography in the Museum's large collection of works on paper. We artists and designers love our cheese-cube-and-wine-fueled Gallery Nights and those should stay. I don't think that all art museums need to be like this model I suggest.

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What's Your Leisure Identity? Does it Bring You Into Museums?

Museum 2.0

In it, John provides a model for the museum visitor experience based on one fundamental idea: people visit and make meaning from museum experiences based on their ability to fulfill identity-related goals and interests.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 We saw that these artists were using the wall, then telling us about it on Flickr. Most of the stuff in our museum is public domain, and we have a very good policy that non-commerical photography is okay. We’re very clear about our photography policy everywhere.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are four different models of crowdsourcing activities: wisdom, creation, voting, and funding. There’s isn’t one best way to do it – and many organizations use a combination of these models to meet their objectives. Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click!

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