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How Useful is the "Audience vs. Expert" Dichotomy?

Museum 2.0

One prototype is based on the Billboard Top 10 charts for pop music. Every week, Billboard publishes charts based on airplay, record sales, and now, digital downloads and streaming. For the interactive prototype, we're letting visitors construct their own "Top 10" and compare it to the Billboard charts. Projects interactives.

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Free Webinar: Sharing Trainer's Social Media Bag of Tricks and Secrets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. Use A Wiki For Electronic Handouts, Electronic Flip Chart, and Leave Behind. Tags: training materials. My job was the network weaver.

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Approach Social Media Like Thomas Edison

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Joe Goode Dance Company spoke about the challenges of getting an artistic director to Tweet. One of the things they discovered is that their audience wants to hear from the artists. But not all the artists are comfortable on Twitter. Tags: Experimentation Training Design arts arts community artslabsf.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Arts Wire was patterned after the Well and was designed as an online conversation community for artists and arts organizations. Part of my job was to evangelize about the Internet and later the web - how artists should harness its power by getting an email address instead of using their fax machines! 09 was the first version I used).

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Guest Post: Top 40 Countdown at the Worcester City Museum

Museum 2.0

Each Monday morning we counted up the votes cast during the previous week and on Wednesday, the museum released a new Top 40 chart. A fairly large label with this week’s chart position was placed next to each artwork. The following week it shot up the chart from number 40 to number 14! Projects participatory museum.

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Data Visualization: Honest, Powerful Interpretative Design

Museum 2.0

Entertain the idea of an exhibit based on Gantt charts and spreadsheets, and your head might just explode. I met one of these data artists last year while visiting a friend/journalist at the New York Times. Sure, a lot of artists can express those kinds of intentions. Tags: informatics design.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

I see three significant internal reasons for homogenization in museums: As money gets tight, museums look for exhibits, program strategies, and revenue streams that are "proven" by other institutions' successes, rather than charting their own potentially risky path. They may employ local artists to help create visitor experiences.

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