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Jumping into Art in Second Life

Museum 2.0

These opportunities can be social --engaging with museum content with other visitors at their computers all over the world--as well as experiential --allowing visitors to jump into, smash, and manipulate content in ways that physics and conservators forbid in real space. This week, a quick example of how each is possible.

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Save Your Trash: An Interview with Ari Derfel

Have Fun - Do Good

When you started getting a lot of media attention, you got a lot of comments. When this came out, it just seemed I guess obvious to some people to rail against me, and to call me "liberal" and "dirty" and "hippy" and "smelly", or anything to get some press and attention, which was fascinating. BB: You started a blog with this project.

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1stfans: An Audience-Specific Membership Program at the Brooklyn Museum

Museum 2.0

This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. It has gotten a lot of attention as a "social media membership," but Will and Shelley are adamant that 1stfans is not about social media. T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes? Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. Sheroes in the Arts. Gentileschi is remembered, however, as an accomplished Baroque artist whose trials did not define her art.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

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which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. nor Tech Virtual had formal evaluation, although both received media attention that elevated the "value" of the exhibitions in the context of their institutions. Neither Click!

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Guest Post by Jeff Gates: Confessions of a Long Tail Visionary

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail Note from Beth: In 1993, I worked as the "network weaver" for an online network for individual artists called "Arts Wire" where I facilitated online conversations, provided technology support and training. In the last few years, the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Their stories are the museum.

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