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

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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. Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 In essence, it is visible storage for the museum.

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

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The Flickr for Nonprofits Affinity group will meet in Washington, DC on April 4 at 1:00 PM ( check agenda ) to share experiences, tips, and ideas about how Flickr can be used to support nonprofits and their programs. Given my interest in flickr that's why I set one up last fall. Voter's s (flickr and other social media sites).

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Networked Nonprofit Update: November

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Flickr Photo by WiserEarth - WiserEarth's team from Around the World play Peek-A-Boo With Book. Flickr Photo by KK. Despite a broken toe, I facilitated a workshop on Social Media for CEOs of nonprofits and foundation. Flickr Photo by James Leventhal. Photo by KK. Independent Sector in Atlanta.

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

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The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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Adventures in Participatory Audience Engagement at the Henry Art Gallery

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All the photos in this post are on Flickr here. What I Learned Part 1: Facilitation is Powerful When I taught this class the first time, I put a real premium on the idea of designing participatory activities that were visitor-driven and required minimal or no facilitation. People make the museum friendly, not activities.

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

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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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A First Look at Jumo

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charities outside the US can set up a profile. To generate a robust profile, your organization should be able to plug in existing social media presences (Flickr, Twitter, YouTube, Blog RSS Feed, Etc) so it seems to favor organizations that have already established a social media content strategy. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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