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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. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. If people can take their own photos, they won't buy them in the gift shop. But what about visitors?

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Guest Post: Oh Snap! Experimenting with Open Authority in the Gallery

Museum 2.0

Visitor-contributed photos surround a collection piece in Carnegie Museum of Art's Oh Snap! It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. The museum selected and is featuring 13 works recently added to our photography collection. Your Take on Our Photographs.

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My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more. We will also organize a flickr collaboration during conference, for example we might take digital photos of the event around particular themes and stream and project our photo stream so everyone at NTC can view it.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. What is Click? the Strategic Implications!

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. At some institutions, staff members set up specific dates for photography and escorted photographers through the galleries. The project's implementation keeps changing, and I can't decide whether it is getting better or just different.

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Quick Hit: My Work with the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History

Museum 2.0

The Museum of Art & History is now in the hands of internationally known innovator Nina Simon, while the community eagerly awaits what happens next By WALLACE BAINE Posted: 06/30/2011 01:30:40 AM PDT Click photo to enlarge Museum of Art & History Director Nina Simon. I've seen how this works and I've made it happen in other places.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged.

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