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Joint Statement from Museum Bloggers and Colleagues on Ferguson and Related Events

Museum 2.0

Gretchen Jennings convened a group of bloggers and colleagues online to develop a statement about museums'' responsibilities and opportunities in response to the events in Ferguson, Cleveland and Staten Island. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. Here is our statement.

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Art, Social Change & Young Women Bloggers

Have Fun - Do Good

Last Sunday each of us wrote a post to answer the question, “Who is your favorite artist (visual, dancer, performer, writer or musician) and why?” On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday). Here is Beth's post and here is mine. This is a project of the Getty Museum. (I

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Helping Haiti: Places to Donate, Creative Fundraising Ideas, and Being a Smart Donor

Have Fun - Do Good

Where possible, purchasing materials available locally is also a boon to the local economy in the wake of a natural disaster." Whether you decide to do something by yourself, or with others, Joanne Fritz of Joanne Fritz's Nonprofit Blog has a helpful post with Top Three Do's and Don'ts for Helping Haiti.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. They are sensitive to the artists who are being judged. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s

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Ten Things Nonprofits May Not Know About MySpace [But I Wish They Did]

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Young, old, poor, rich, conservative, liberal, urban, rural, black, white, brown, red, yellow, gay, straight, preps, goths, rappers, artists, hippies, yuppies… you name it. For the last two years we’ve been bombarded with articles from bloggers and the mainstream media that MySpace is dead. They are all on MySpace.

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Time to Give a Little

ASU Lodestar Center

If you’re unfamiliar with the site, it’s a place for start-ups, artists, and local organizations to promote specific projects in order to receive funding. For example, I entered "social media" and "blogging" on my profile, and Sparked.com paired me with a challenge from an organization asking for bloggers to write about diversity.

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Socially Networked Puppet Show

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last night we attended a performance of Sandglass and Sovanna Phum ( Here too)- the culmination of these two artists working together from different cultures, puppetry traditions , and language. We took Mongkol , a Cambodian blogger, now studying in Boston. What they produced was gorgeous, brilliant, and exceptional.