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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. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

Wikipedia Loves Art, Take One The first version of Wikipedia Loves Art first took place in February 2009. It started with a request from a group of New York Wikimedians to the Brooklyn Museum. Wikipedia Loves Art, Take Two In June of 2009, Dutch Wikimedians tried again. Image verification was a Herculean effort.

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Cary McQueen Morrow: Arts and Technology Thought Leader

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In two weeks, several hundred arts leaders from around the country will gather on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University to discuss the role of technology in the arts field at the Technology in the Arts Conference. Tell me a little bit about how you got into arts management? Was that your progression? Actually, I???m

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Visitors in Focus

Museum 2.0

Add to this, our designers are careful to pick seats that work with the aesthetic of the art. But our visitors are worried about getting yelled at, and then we put in seats that sort of vaguely look like art. They discussed how personal photography wasn’t just about selfies (and in fact often wasn’t). I’m a snob, so I get that.

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Adobe Is Creating Change

Tech Soup

In line with the design, drawing, and multimedia editing tools that form the backbone of Adobe, they invest in organizations that are addressing arts and creativity, education, and youth service issues. The Foundation's community grants program has two focus areas: Arts and Creativity. Grant Programs from the Adobe Foundation.

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On White Privilege and Museums

Museum 2.0

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I am in no way an expert in issues related to racial and ethnic representation in the arts. I never saw comparable adjectives used in the European art labels at the museum.

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The Eye of the Beholder

Museum 2.0

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York Usually this blog is more about analysis than links. But this week, two articles about art, in the NYT and the Washington Post Magazine respectively, called out to be combined into a post about the role of visitors in art interpretation. What do we look for in art museums?

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