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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 A place that blogs, that engages in social networking sites, that tries experiments, and reports about all of it honestly. A place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. Is there such a place?

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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

Museum 2.0

When I created the hierarchy of social participation shown in this diagram, I debated what shape it should take. In Shulman’s article, she points out the folly of a rigid sequential theory when it comes to learning (and my case, I’ll expand that to social engagement). X-Men) and artists. Could it be cyclic? What do they do?)

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Teens are developmentally focused on social identity-building and may feel more compelled to share their voices and express themselves than others than other visitors.

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NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Election Day Debriefs What we can learn about online politics from the 2006 Campaigns from e-politics offers some lessons and takeaways about social networking and other traditional technology tools deployed for political campaigns. The key is to move MySpace friends onto normal advocacy lists as soon as possible.

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Is Your Museum Website a Walled Garden?

Museum 2.0

How can you make your museum website more effective in driving traffic and raising awareness of your institution? But there is a simpler, more impactful way for museum websites to become more visible, cited, and visited in the online landscape. Museums are creating “walled gardens,” and it hurts online visibility and impact.

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Book Club Part 5: Museums as Mixed-Used Spaces

Museum 2.0

This week, we consider Chapter 11 of Elaine Gurian's Civilizing the Museum , "Function Follows Form: How mixed-used spaces in museums build community," but first, a short and relevant note about my writing process. It has its own myspace page. Museums are naturally tuned to some of these but not all. It's a laundromat.

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