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The Creative Commons has an interesting interview with the Brooklyn Museum where they discuss openness, sharing, and how this ties into a broader goal of using technology to expand their community and enhance the experience of the visitor. One of their approaches for doing this is a pretty unique program called 1stfans

1stfans Membership is an interactive relationship with the Museum that will happen in the building and online. We call it a “socially networked” Museum Membership, but what does that mean? The word has two meanings, which is why we picked it: it means developing face-to-face relationship with Museum staff and other Museum Members (literal social networking), and a strong, exclusive online relationship through social networking sites (you know them as Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter).

I like how this allows people to engage with and participate in the (community) life of the museum in multiple ways. Traditionally, there were only two: as a visitor or a staff member. 1stfans explodes those old boundaries.