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Q&A with sgLEADERS: H. Beecher Hicks, III, National Museum of African American Music

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Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Today’s Q&A is with H.

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Q&A with sgLEADERS: H. Beecher Hicks, III, National Museum of African American Music

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Beecher Hicks III, President & CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM) in Nashville, TN. NMAAM is the only museum dedicated to preserving and celebrating the many music genres created, influenced, and inspired by African Americans. Today’s Q&A is with H.

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Top Tips for an Amazing 15NTC

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Luckily, the NTEN Community is full of advice on places to go, things to do, dishes to eat, and how to navigate NTC like a pro. Or, you can take David Neff ''s local advice: skip the lines at Franklin''s and instead check out the amazing BBQ, bar, and history behind Freedman’s. Get cultured. Take home a unique souvenir.

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Machinima Festival and NTC Video Contest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, there's an NTEN Affinity Group for video blogging where you can get advice, ask questions, or share what you know. Combining aspects of animation, game development, puppetry, graffiti, fan fiction, and improvisational theater into a moving image art form, machinima represents the latest frontier of digital popular culture.

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Orchestras, Musicians, The Concert Experience, and Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s some of the advice that came through Facebook: It takes a while to motivate the musicians, because they are busy people and often on the road away from internet. This is fertile ground for experiments and learning best practices.

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Chatroulette: Giving Stranger Interactions a Bad Name

Museum 2.0

Occasionally it's a place for a surprising cross-cultural encounter. I've learned that holding up signs or puppets, or playing a musical instrument, helps lengthen chat time. I could imagine a delightful application on a museum website that would allow me to chat with a stranger about a featured artifact or artwork.

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

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They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. The little girls are part of a culture, the Shona culture in Zimbabwe, as maybe you know, uses poetry. PG: In these different cultures, the women seem to know, in ways that outsiders might not, what can be effective.