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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. While they're scrambling to figure out "new media" alternate entities spring up around them that exist only online.

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Visitor Studies Association Replaces Keynotes with Dialogue

Museum 2.0

Joe explains some of the planned intentional dialogue events: First, for the opening night dinner, we hired a local dance company that is putting together pieces about visiting museums, punctuated by an actor/dancer asking provocative questions to the group. The VSA will be doing post-conference evaluations to find out.

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Issues Exhibitions: Questions as a Basis for Design

Museum 2.0

I've been thinking recently about ways to represent issues (social, political, scientific) in museum settings. Museums often pursue the dual goals of presenting accurate, objective information while encouraging visitors to think for themselves, take a stand, engage with the issue at hand. But is stand-taking always right for museums?

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Forget Conferences. I'm Going to Camp.

Museum 2.0

The imaginative context of the workshops allowed us to get past petty sticking points and tackle big questions like how to balance creativity into your work, how to feel good about creating without evaluating the product, and how to deal with the tensions of working in teams. Tags: professional development. We had fun. We got inspired.

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Layer On for the Long Haul: Sustaining Visitor Co-created Experiences

Museum 2.0

No one would contest the idea that most museum exhibitions, art shows, films, books, in short, most content experiences, have value both for the new and return user. Most visitor-generated museum experiences are about creating, not curating, content. Why would someone want to contribute metadata to the museum experience?

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Guest Post: Beth Kanter's SXSWi Nonprofit Panel Roundup

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Evaluating Next-Gen Volunteer Opportunity Platforms: Forget about the high school community service club : The next generation of volunteering platforms is here -- from Google's All for Good to the President's Serve.gov. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. Twitterstorm, anyone?