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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors.

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September Wrap-Up Community Builder Chat: Online, Offline, and Migration

Amy Sample Ward

Question 1 : asked about migrating a community from one tool to another, specifically from listservs to a website/forum. These monthly chats part of the #4Change network and are open to anyone interested in learning and sharing about building community, on and offline, with the use of social media or other technology tools.

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Five Steps to Successful Crisis Communications

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. Note From Beth: I remember back when Hurricane Katrina struck, I saw a post to the Museum ListServ that said “ Chuck Patch Is Not Dead.” If you’re accepting donations, show how the money is being spent with photos and videos. Close the loop.

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from Kate in Flickr Social Signal Open House in TechSoup Office last week I'm playing catch up here on a bunch of Second Life stuff happening over the past week that I didn't want to let slip through my fingers: Social Signal held an open house in Second Life to welcome their new virtual worlds manager, Catherine Winters , to Social Signal.

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The Zoetica Salon: A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Teddy Llovet. Photo by Dkurpaptwa. In those days, we used listservs and online discussion software, but platform matter. It was the free and open sharing of knowledge, insights, quick tips, and how-tos. Our intent is to provide a space for just-in-time answers and share best practices at no charge.

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TechSoup Global: A Tale of Two Dramatically Different Networks and Their Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Idea Constructor. Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. The presentation is here. While this might have fueled the organic growth, they are unable to track some of the impact. In fact, both of those things happened.

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One Simple Question to Make Your Work More Participatory

Museum 2.0

Photo by CLoé Zarifian, MAH Photo Intern We're working with a guest curator, Wes Modes , on an upcoming experimental project at our museum. The obvious start was to think about how we recruit the artists--using an open call to invite anyone, anywhere to participate. I said to him: I can't really answer that question.