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Game Friday: Supporting Community Influencers

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Notably, the Brooklyn Museum's heavy involvment with social networking sites like MySpace has extended the idea that museums are sites for discussion. People with "leadership, empathy for what people like and don’t like, ability to sooth ruffled feathers, articulate." Who are these influencers? Or, start at home on the museum floor.

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Thing a Day: Good or Glib?

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Shortly after starting the poem-a-day project, I became more aware of the extent to which a vast majority of the internet is about this concept—exposing processes, opening up the innards. In other museums, I don’t get enough and I feel lost, like there’s something beautiful nearby but I can’t quite see or articulate it.

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Betting on Braincake: Interview with Jen Stancil

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And at that time they were doing a public awareness campaign. So how do you design for that kind of maturity, and for kids who want a MySpace? We didn’t want to build MySpace. One of the vendors made a proposal to us with the phrase: “It’s MySpace meets NASA." It was not a tough sell. What do kids do after school?

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What's a Virtual Visitor Worth?

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How much do we value brand awareness outside of local markets? How important is it that some of the students at participating schools gain heightened awareness of the museum and physically show up one day? Brand Awareness Do you care if someone 1,000 miles away knows about your museum? Let's look at these one by one.

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