Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Flickr Museum Denver Images 61

Museum 2.0

APRIL 20, 2009

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Instead, I found a standard art museum. Is this a problem?

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Participatory Museum Web Indianapolis 35

Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. In exhibits and galleries where photography is permitted, of course!) To pull this off well you'll want to print up some effective signage to orient people to what Pinterest is about and how the museum is using it. Collect images that demonastrate the problem your are trying to solve.

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Ideas Images Flickr Adopt 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. Only a court of law can determine whether the purpose of the photography was fair use or not. It's really out of our hands.

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Los Angeles Remix Museum Artist 50

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Scientists state a problem, make a hypothesis, develop a test regimen to test the hypothesis, gather data, analyze the results, and make conclusions, which may include stating new problems or hypotheses. Working with the museum or using the museum as a platform to do your own thing?

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Public Research Participatory Report 36

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 5, 2010

A coupon goes up for half-price museum admission or spa treatments, and users have one day to buy. While restaurants make up the lion's share of the offerings, there are all kinds of experiences--from tree ziplines to hot stone massages to photography sessions--that garner interest as well.

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Learning Museum San Francisco Cleveland 39