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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

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4) Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop :: shop.artic.edu. The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Shop sells unique and beautiful objects from around the world in support of the arts. Audubon Marketplace gifts are unique and play an important role in protecting our birds and butterflies. Perfect gifts for the nonprofit techie!

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0. To understand more, I turned to Elaine Gurian's article The Molting of Children's Museums? Why the uniformity?

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Get on the Bus: How Mass Transit Design Affects Participatory Potential

Museum 2.0

There's a tag applied to many Museum 2.0 Posts under that tag tend to examine non-museum things, from malls to games to ad campaigns , and draw some design lessons for museums from their foreignness. What aspects of that socialness are desirable in museums (and how might we mirror buses or trains to promote them)?

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. Fund their work! Sheroes in the Arts. Lorraine Hansberry.

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Curated Collaborative Filtering: Listening to Pandora

Museum 2.0

How is a museum like a radio station? It’s called Pandora , and its successes reveal interesting lessons about aggregating museum content. And it’s the introduction to new music that makes Pandora uniquely interesting to me as a museum person. Which means that curators still have a powerful role to play in the future of museums.