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Guest Post by Debra Askanase: Fill the Gap Campaign Crowdsourcing for Citizen Museum Curators

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing? In essence, it is visible storage for the museum. Are there special cautions related to crowdsourcing for nonprofits?

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Nonprofit and Flickr Resource List: Not listed, Add in the Comments

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Why Museum Professionals Should Use Flickr from the Musem 2.0 Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors sharing photos in a group. Nature Conservancy Photo Contest. More Advanced Techniques. It isn??????t

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Guest Post by Jon Husband: Crowdsourcing and Customer, Employee and Stakeholder Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

About three months ago Beth Kanter wrote about the Crowdsourcing of Vision at the Smithsonian Museum. Tags: crowdsourcing. I've been keeping a careful eye out for thoughtful comments that could turn into guest posts. That's where this post about crowdsourcing came out of it! Jon Husbands is a Listener, watcher and facilitator.

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Jumping into Art in Second Life

Museum 2.0

When people talk about museum projects in Second Life and other virtual worlds, I'm often disappointed by the short-sightedness of the vision. Virtual worlds are a new, emerging technology, and like any new technology, overlaying old techniques onto new platforms is disappointing at best.

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Preservation in Action: Ambition and Excitement at Zealandia

Museum 2.0

Some of the signage pointed out “firsts” happening at the preserve—new techniques for introducing species into new habitats, creating a completely mammal pest-free environment, and inviting people to visit the project while underway. Tags: storytelling marketing design Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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Backwards Interview: My Advice for Incorporation of Web 2.0 into Museums

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James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 technique/application that will fit those goals. into their repertoire?

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