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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. Some conservators argue that if non-flash photography is permitted, light levels in the galleries may be increased to accommodate visitors' cameras, which indirectly damage artifacts. How can visitors be "co-owners" of museums if they can't own an image from their experience?

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10 Best Practices for Planning Successful Crowd Funding or Giving Day Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What metrics will you use to measure success? If the answer to all those questions starts with a dollar sign, then you have your measurable metric. There are other ways to incorporate this in your campaign, you acknowledge donations in a public and unique way. But chances are it’s a lot more complicated than that.

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries? Some leaders are more conservative than I feared, and these people are alternately smug and desperate about maintaining their power. From my perspective the line wasn’t between libraries and museums but public-facing and private/researcher-facing organizations.

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