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End-of-Year Wrap-Up: Three Things to Take Into Your 2024 Email Campaigns

M+R

Others found success by creating self-contained, time-limited campaigns earlier in the month — a flash match, 72-hour member drive, or another way to create a deadline in mid-December, reducing reliance on a big 12/31. For many, that meant shifting the email cadence, adding more and more urgent messages on 12/28 and 12/29.

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Blame the Crowd, Not the Camera: Challenges to a New Open Photo Policy at the National Gallery

Museum 2.0

I believe that the ability to take photographs (no flash) in a museum greatly increases many people''s abilities to personalize, memorialize, and enjoy the experience. For the first time, the National Gallery is permitting non-flash photography. Lots of flashes. Reader, I was wrong. I still feel that way. Mobs of ipads.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

While the majority of experience-based museums like children's and science museums have unrestricted noncommercial photography policies, many collections-based art and history museums continue to maintain highly restrictive photo policies. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. But what about visitors?

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Make Your Videos Better

Tech Soup

Among the things to consider are the recording medium (flash drives are becoming ubiquitous, but some cameras still use digital video tape) and transfer method — can you remove the media and plug it directly into your computer, or can you use a cable? Finally, photography — both still and video — is about capturing light.

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YMCA of Greater Seattle: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

Their youth users have a strong interest and talent in editing, graphic design, video, and photography. In particular, they found that Flash-heavy websites loaded slowly in some of our other test installations.

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Getting Good Pictures - How to Use Your Flash

See3

In fact, he wrote a book on the subject called David Pogue’s Digital Photography - The Missing Manual. One big issue in getting good pictures with amateur camera equipment is controlling the flash. What most people don’t consider, though, is that the flash generally provides horrible light. When to Avoid the Flash.

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Museums and Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Collection of photographs found on the site are pulled in from Flickr using a Flash-base mashup. posed stock photography ever could. In designing and developing The American Image: The Photographs of John Collier Jr. website with The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology we???ve ve found ourselves spending a lot of time in Flickr.

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