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Have Fun Do Good Link Love: Echoing Green, Jobs for Change, Julia Cameron and 29 Gifts

Have Fun - Do Good

29 Gifts: How a Month of Giving Can Change Your Life Filling the Well: Giving to Yourself Join My Village: Ladies Home Journal Do Good Challenge Make Someone's Day: Write a Letter Whew! Interesting WorldChanging post, Just Launched: Journal of Participatory Medicine. Tags: linklove. nonprofit (valued up to $75,000 ).

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Navigation by Recommendation: Lessons Learned from a Little Experiment

Museum 2.0

I spent some time playing with this question last week at the Milwaukee Art Museum, a large general museum that is moving toward redesign of the permanent galleries. A recommendation is a gift, and it is best packaged in some positive or intriguing sentiment. Tags: design participatory museum usercontent.

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Curate Your Own Membership: An Interview with the Whitney's Director of Membership

Museum 2.0

On September 10, the Whitney Museum of American Art started offering a new membership called "Curate Your Own," in which members select one of five specialized "buckets" of benefits in addition to core admission and discount benefits. People want to experience art in quite individual ways. The "insiders" are another example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. Tell me about your experience with tagging. Why do you tag? What are the values of tagging for you and your audience? What advice would you offer to nonprofits who want to use tagging?

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop.

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Foot in the Door: A Powerful Participatory Exhibit

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I spent last week working with staff at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) on ways to make this encyclopedic art museum more open to visitor participation across programs, exhibitions, and events. While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door.

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Community Exhibit Development: Lessons Learned from The Tech Virtual

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On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. It's also standard practice in community arts programs. than by talking in suppositions.

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