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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

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Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Definitely a trend to keep your eyes on as Internet TV begins to penetrate our living rooms in coming years. oneforty :: oneforty.com. Viddy :: viddy.com. What The Trend :: whatthetrend.com.

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Museums and Flickr

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online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Guest Post: A Tale of Two University Museums

Museum 2.0

Margaret shared these thoughts about "museums for use" on her blog , and I asked her to adapt a version for the Museum 2.0 Should a museum be a destination or a place for everyday use? During my time at RISD studying industrial design, I developed relationships with two museums on campus: the Museum of Art and the Nature Lab.

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Steal these 42 Creative Pinterest Ideas for Nonprofits

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If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. In exhibits and galleries where photography is permitted, of course!) To pull this off well you'll want to print up some effective signage to orient people to what Pinterest is about and how the museum is using it. Create boards of animal or fish pics by color. Just use your beard!".

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Frameworks and Lessons from the Public Participation in Science Research Report

Museum 2.0

The various definitions of participatory projects can lead to confusion and misunderstandings. I've added a fourth model to this citizen science typology, one may be more appropriate to facilities like museums than to scientific organizations: co-option. Working with the museum or using the museum as a platform to do your own thing?

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

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One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click.

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Getting in on the Act: New Report on Participatory Arts Engagement

Museum 2.0

Useful definitions of participatory activities as "curatorial, interpretative, and inventive"--this is a reframing of the Forrester research framework for online participation which is probably more appropriate to the arts context. What's the relationship between the goals of participation and the techniques employed?