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Nature Conservancy Instagram Contest and Other Examples

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy’s Instagram contest , an image scavenger hunt. The photos, particularly since TNC’s audience are photography enthusiastic, can become a richer source for compelling photos than stock photos. Caption Contest.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

Tech Soup

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Large-Format Photography. Large-format photography books are at the center of each Braided River campaign. Environmental Impact. It's a very changing landscape."

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

Tech Soup

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. Large-Format Photography. Large-format photography books are at the center of each Braided River campaign. Environmental Impact. It's a very changing landscape."

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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"? How did the authors come up with the intriguing blend of curatorial, interpretative, and inventive opportunities shown in the Audience Involvement Spectrum's Venn diagrams?

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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 They just finished a YouTube video contest. But other things--the twitter thing, the video contest was my idea. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. We’re very clear about our photography policy everywhere.

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Guest Post: A Tale of Two University Museums

Museum 2.0

The Sitings contest invites students to propose an installation and the two proposals that win each year are awarded grants and displayed in the Museum. 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.

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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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