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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

I'm working on a section of my book about sharing social objects and am writing about the most common way that visitors share their object experiences in museums: through photographs. Revenue Streams: Museums want to maintain control of sales of "officially sanctioned" images of objects via catalogues and postcards.

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Nonprofit Engagement: Why Website Logins Matter

NetWits

For example, maybe everyone can see a certain resource or sample quiz, but you must login in order to also download the white paper or answer guide. For example, a museum could ask constituents for their preferred exhibits or topics, and the Return User Landing Page can be personalized to show content based on those very interests.

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Walk in Your Visitor’s Shoes: How to use the Buyer’s Journey to increase Attendance at your Arts & Cultural Organization

Connection Cafe

The most important thing to remember is to find channels to reach your target visitors : the people most likely to visit your zoo, museum or aquarium or to attend a performance. . In the consideration stage, you want to entice patrons to visit your museum, aquarium, zoo or attend a performance. Retention .

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: Love Your Techie Week 2010

NTEN

Check out Blackbaud 's white paper (PDF) for a good introduction and some considerations. and how your museum, for example, could make good use of it. Check out Britt's list of the 4 things you could do with it for your museum (or park or school. International Fellowship of Christians and Jews -- both cited as Rising.

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Teenagers and Social Participation

Museum 2.0

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. During the ensuing discussion, one woman asked, "Which audiences are least interested in social participation in museums?" So what's a museum to do--especially one that is funded to encourage youth and teen participation?

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How To: Put Technology to Use (October 2008)

NTEN

Or the Women's Museum. Dow Jones, of all places, has a white paper on " Tracking the Influence of Conversations " (We imagine many of the conversations they've been hearing over the past month involve Chicken Little.). Balderdash! Take a look at what the Learning Community is doing. Flickr makes it easy to get started!

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What's Stopping us from Building More Inclusive Nonprofits?

Museum 2.0

Conferences and white papers and toolkits and blogs. Every day, I’m amazed by the range of efforts to increase diversity, equity, and inclusion in the cultural sector. There are funding initiatives. Grassroots activism. Academic research. And yet, very little seems to change. The enthusiasm is high. The voices are in the room.

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