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8 Museum Apps Doing Good

Care2

Historic St. Louis apps by Missouri History Museum. iOS/Android: This app truly takes history outside the walls of the museum by mapping several hundred historic photos across St. Louis’ storied past. Historic St. Louis - iTunes App Store. The Civil War in St.

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Tales of faux donors scamming charities

Robert Weiner

The first letters came with small gifts memorializing certain people in history not known for being very nice, but other than that, they were not altogether bizarre (other than the checks… with no address, and envelopes, with no address, and I don’t think they ever had a post mark, come to think of it). I think you get the picture.

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Who Counts? Grappling with Attendance as a Proxy for Impact

Museum 2.0

This summer, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published the kind of "how sausage is made" story that rarely gets written about the arts. It''s about museum attendance and how the five big, free museums in St. Louis count it. Summertime concerts at the history museum? So perhaps the St. There''s quite a range.

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Get Involved with the 9/11 Day of Service and Remembrance

Tech Soup

history by pledging to perform good deeds, support charitable causes, volunteer, and engage in other acts of compassion. Photo: United Way of Greater St. Best of all, there's still time for nonprofits to get involved. Is your organization involved in any projects related to remembering 9/11?

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Open Letter to Arianna Huffington, Edward Rothstein, and Many Other Museum Critics

Museum 2.0

They just snap photos through their phones!" If you gasp when you see an artifact, I snap a photo, and another visitor texts her friend about the experience, is one of us doing it wrong? Imagine being a member of an indigenous tribe that is treated solely as ancient history in an anthropological museum.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

I put each woman's photo at the beginning of when she talks to mark each section. We're ignorant and don't understand the history of these oppressions and how they undermine our work as activists, and as allies, and undermines our solidarity with each other. And I started working with a community outside of St.

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