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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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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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What's Your Leisure Identity? Does it Bring You Into Museums?

Museum 2.0

I saw every part of our vacation through the lens of the book, and my climbing partner (a highly active and artistic guy) and I spent a lot of time analyzing the choices we did and didn't make and how they reflected our expressions of identity. How does it reflect your personal identity? In both cases, our identity needs were met.

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

I've written before about the inspiring work that the Brooklyn Museum of Art is doing with their community-focused efforts. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. The art will be displayed in order of the average juried scores.

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How to Optimize Instagram for Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

With 127 million followers to date, National Geographic has certainly mastered the art of Instagram. One way of doing this is by having an identifiable photography style or filter. . The New York Public Library keeps their Instagram bio short and sweet with a link that leads to their website. Source: [link]. Their secret?

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Why Click! is My Hero (What Museum Innovation Looks Like)

Museum 2.0

the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. As James comments in the attached podcast (scroll down), Shelley’s team did something that he thought was “too hard” to do in his work—tackle the effect of crowds on the subjective question of art evaluation. Because Click! isn’t a standard exhibition.

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