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

Museum 2.0

It can be incredibly difficult to design a participatory project that involves online and onsite visitor engagement. The result of those meetings and brainstorming sessions recently manifested itself in our Forum Gallery as an experimental photography project called Oh Snap! Your Take on Our Photographs. At its core, Oh Snap!

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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. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. Aesthetics of Experience: Photo-taking is distracting for other visitors.

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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. The museums developed careful rules about what could and couldn't be shot, and how participants could upload their images to Flickr for use by the project. Image verification was a Herculean effort. Some of these challenges were about mission fit.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click.

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

Museum 2.0

But the point is that the MAH, like just about every other museum in the known universe, was content to define the museum experience as something removed from the outside world, a rarefied church-like space of refined artistic reflection. Her blog, "Museum 2.0," is one of the leading forces working to remake the museum experience.

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My NTC Session Planning Wikis.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While one might be tempted to discount the value of face-to-face gatherings when we have the Internet, some of my most valuable connections and learning experiences have taken place "in real life" at the NTC. We will discuss flickr, tagging, digital photography, flickr contests, participatory media campaigns, and much more.

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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. They kept the interface simple.

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