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Scanning for Good – How Nonprofits Can Use QR Codes

NetWits

When the South Carolina Aquarium found out it was getting an albino alligator, it wanted to make sure people had their eyes wide open. When people scanned the QR code with their smart phone, it opened a mobile-friendly petition aimed at saving British Columbia’s Flathead River Valley.

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Guest Post: Collections Access - Open the Door Wider

Museum 2.0

I’m always amazed when my colleagues tell me that the biggest barrier they face to “opening up” the content at their museums is from registrars—the people who care for collection objects. are well versed in new ideas for audience engagement and committed to opening up their institutions to increase public access.

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Invention, Technology and Social Change: What’s driving you?

Amy Sample Ward

I was interviewed recently by Petra Kroon , a blogger focused on social media and entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, in which she asked some really great questions, including what I thought the trend would be for social entrepreneurship in 2010 as well as where we may be in 25 years.

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Blueprint Book Club Part 3: The Future of the National Vending Machine

Museum 2.0

This guest post was written by Geert-Jan Davelaar and Anna Tiedink, educators at the Zuiderzee Open Air Museum in the Netherlands, the museum that "adopted" the INNL's National Vending Machine project after INNL's closure. We’d like to share some thoughts and ideas in this guest post. Which compartment would you open?

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Don’t Be Fooled by Abstract Jargon: Internet Governance and ICT Policy

Tech Soup

Trends in mobile phones , social media , cloud computing , open data , e-government and e-governance , new applications, and open and developing Internet standards have increased the importance of ICT to multiple actors, which include CSOs. Net neutrality has been enshrined in law in the Netherlands and Chile. Not convinced yet?

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Guest Post by Jasper Visser: Storytelling for Social Cohesion at Story House Belvédère

Museum 2.0

Story House Belvédère in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, is a magical place. In its short existence (it opened in 2013), the place has made a name for itself as a successful community-driven, innovative cultural initiative. City officials doubted the idea of an exhibition in the public space in a part of town they considered dangerous.

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A Radical, Simple Formula for Pop-Up Museums

Museum 2.0

The never-quite-opened National History Museum of the Netherlands created an innovative vending machine for historic objects, which traveled to festivals and urban centers for people to add their memories. Maria Mortati runs the wonderful SF Mobile Museum , which roams the Bay Area showing mini-exhibits on evocative themes.

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