Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 31, 2007
I met her like ten years ago when I leading training workshops for arts educators, artists, and arts organizations throughout New York State on how to use the Internet. Susan was doing these amazing collaborative, user-generated content projects over the Internet. I was teaching Web1.0
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 24, 2011
Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. In 1992, I discovered the Internet, Well, and was hired by the New York Foundation of the Arts to be the Network Weaver for a network for artists, Arts Wire. I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists.
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Museum 2.0
JANUARY 25, 2012
Stacey has been collaborating with local artists to produce a series of content-rich events that invite visitors to participate in a range of hands-on activities. The event involved over fifty artists throughout the building helping visitors make their own paper, write poems, stitch books, etc.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 1, 2009
The point, in the context of this conversation, is that a minority of social media users are creators—people who write blog posts, upload photos onto Flickr, or share homemade videos on YouTube. You get to contribute to a collaborative project that produces something beautiful. You see the overall value of the project.
Museum 2.0
FEBRUARY 12, 2009
This week, an interview with Brooklyn Museum 1stfans managers Will Cary (membership) and Shelley Bernstein (technology) and artist An Xiao. We have all these local Brooklyn people who love the museum and come on First Saturdays and spend all day on Facebook and Flickr. T he Twitter Art Feed features a new artist every month.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 31, 2006
My first online community builder/facilitator job was with Arts Wire, an online network for artists, that used a unix-based, text-based online discussion software. Arts Wire, a project of NYFA, was originally intended to be a place for artists from all over the country to meet, exchange ideas, and talk about their work via the Internet.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
Flickr Photo courtesy of Miles Maier, London ICT Champion. It seems to work pretty well in the non-profit and open source context where the starting point is an expectation of sharing, collaboration and attribution. My wife, Deepa, really got me started on the notion of gift economies within her online artistic community.
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