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Six Alternative (U.S.) Cultural Venues to Keep an Eye On

Museum 2.0

From a museum perspective, I think there's a lot to learn from these venues' business models, approach to collecting and exhibiting work, and connection with their audiences. It's run by Jon Rubin, an artist and professor of social practice at Carnegie Mellon, and his students. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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What Should Happen to Underperforming Nonprofit Organizations?

Museum 2.0

They closed for capricious financial reasons, and they left disappointed artists and participants in their wake. What''s the alternative to this waste? Museum of Art and History Unusual Projects and Influences business models' Could each have offered MORE community value? Absolutely.

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Guest Post by Lina Srivastava: Building Cultural Engagement for Change Through Media and Narrative

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The fact is that the more people are exposed to stories around a cause and the ideas behind theories of change, the more likely that change will be effected or you'll influence the people who can help create impact. But there's a difference in how you influence previously disengaged participants vs. active participants.

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The Johnny Cash Project: A Participatory Music Video That Sings

Museum 2.0

To construct the video, artist Chris Milk assembled images and footage of Johnny Cash in a sequence along with the song. The result is a beautiful animated video that composites together alternative frames created by participants all over the world. But overall, this is a model project that starts with an outcome, not an activity.

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Another Exclusivity Paradox: Secret Gardens, Hidden Museums

Museum 2.0

And then there's the Berkeley Ace hardware store, which has a basement lair devoted to model trains. Secrecy operates on a scarcity model; if everyone knows about it, it's not as appealing. Tags: design Unusual Projects and Influences inclusion. What's going on here? Exclusive places reinforce our identities powerfully.

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Guest Post: Nell Taylor on the Chicago Underground Library

Museum 2.0

A Community-Based Approach to Collecting and Cataloging CUL is a replicable model for community archives that accepts every piece of print media from a certain area without making quality or importance judgments, going back as far in history as possible. Tags: guestpost Unusual Projects and Influences.

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Green Coworking: An Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

Have Fun - Do Good

The people of the space really do have a lot of influence and can add a lot of benefit. I think so far it's similar to the BarCamp event model where it started out as being a lot of geeks and people online, because it spread through online vehicles. BB: Who are the kinds of people who are getting involved with coworking?

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