Dulwich OnView
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Dulwich OnView is a museum-based virtual community
Virtual community
A virtual community is a social network of individuals who interact through specific media, potentially crossing geographical and political boundaries in order to pursue mutual interests or goals...

  associated with the Dulwich Picture Gallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery
Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, South London. England's first purpose-built public art gallery, it was designed by Regency architect Sir John Soane and opened to the public in 1817. Soane arranged the exhibition spaces as a series of interlinked rooms illuminated naturally...

 for the local community, based in the suburb of Dulwich
Dulwich
Dulwich is an area of South London, England. The settlement is mostly in the London Borough of Southwark with parts in the London Borough of Lambeth...

, southeast London
London
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, England
England
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. It runs a blog
Blog
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-based online magazine concerned with people and culture in Dulwich and the surrounding area.

The group was formed through the Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery in a grassroots manner. and is supported by the Gallery. It uses a combination of Web 2.0
Web 2.0
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 technologies as needed, using facilities such as a Facebook
Facebook
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 group for the film society of the Friends of the Dulwich Picture Gallery, Flickr
Flickr
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 for photographs taken by the local community, a magazine blog on WordPress
WordPress
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, "
tweets
Twitter
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" on Twitter
Twitter
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, etc., to support its activities. The group is entirely run by volunteers. The editorial team for the main website is led by Ingrid Beazley and Shapa Begum.

In 2010, the web interface was updated with multiple sections and a new style. Shortly afterwards, the site won the Museums and the Web
Museums and the Web
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Best of the Web award in the "best small site" category.
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