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Being Open and Personal – Joining the Museum Trends of 2015

Connection Cafe

Trendswatch 2015 , the annual forecasting report from the Center for the Future of Museums , is now available! So when AAM and Blackbaud hosted Trends Watch 2015: Using Open Data and Personalization at Museums with Elizabeth Merritt , Michael Edson , and Stephen Watson , attending it was a definite no-brainer!

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Great reads from around the web on February 1st

Amy Sample Ward

Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One Though much of the citizenry isn’t able to broadcast themselves, their stories are being told and amplified by reporters.

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How to Use Facebook Live to Raise Money

Connection Cafe

But did you know that Facebook now lets some nonprofits add a donate button to their Facebook Live broadcast ? If your nonprofit is based in the US, and your Facebook Page is verified, you can fundraise within a Facebook Live broadcast. Within a multi-channel approach, Facebook Live can become a powerful way to raise more money online.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A handy little tool when designing a YouTube channel, Twitter profile, MySpace page, blog, etc. You can either broadcast live (think of it as your own radio station) or host the messages on the Cinchcast server for later listening. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Based in the U.K., Addictomatic :: addictomatic.com.

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What is Twitter, Really? And Can it Do Anything for Museums?

Museum 2.0

Fundamentally, twitter is a service that "quickly matches new messages coming in from members with the followers who have signed up to receive them, then retransmits them using each follower's preferred channel: instant message, SMS, or the Twitter website." But how could it be used uniquely for visitors in museums?

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Becoming Generous Thieves: Notes from the Museums in Conversation Keynote

Museum 2.0

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. I learned to cultivate creative greed while working on Operation Spy at the International Spy Museum, where I was lucky to be working on a project that was so new to us that we didn't have any pre-established models or structures for doing it.

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