Museum 2.0

JANUARY 27, 2011

For example, for the Brooklyn Museum's recent exhibition on women and pop art, Seductive Subversion , curatorial intern Rebecca Shaykin was assigned to improve (and write) Wikipedia articles on the 25 artists profiled in the show. Working in a platform like Wikipedia allows museum knowledge to go where the people are.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. Blogs are a great platform for highlighting donors, fund-raisers, volunteers, and other supporters through “of the month” posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Crowdsourcing consists of principles, processes and platforms to get things done and usually involves an open call to a group of people online – the “crowd.” Crowdflower, in particular, is pioneering mechanized QA processes within their work platform to provide a high degree of accuracy for work rendered through their site.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

We attentively respond to requests and purposefully use different modes of feedback to inform program design from our comment board, social media outlets, conversations and observations both inside and outside the museum, creative feedback at events such as our Show and Tell Booth and online visitor surveys specific to our programs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Share and Comment on Breaking News. Interview a professor, government official, or esteemed professional, such as a scientist, social worker, activist, or artist. Blogs are a great platform for highlighting donors, fund-raisers, volunteers, and other supporters through “of the month” posts.

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2015

It was originally founded as a place for film artists to share and promote their work, so it encourages quality commenting. However, Vine is a social-media video-sharing platform, and it states in its privacy statement that publicly posted content is going to be shared in various ways.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 19, 2016

We invite people from community organizations and campaigns to use the museum as a platform to share their message. We partner with thousands of artists and organizations, providing staff support and engagement in their work. We educate the public on local issues. We incubate a youth art and social change program.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Please take a look, and share your own thoughts about crowdsourcing within the comments section below! Crowd-funding New Ideas: Funding platforms for artists, musicians, and inventors: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. His commentary was first posted on the Communications Network blog. Foundation application?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2009

Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content. Less than 1% of the users of most social Web platform create original content. This is a problem for two reasons.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

You might try reaching out to businesses, artists, or other people in your neighborhood to see if they’d be willing to list things on your store (either as a donation or for a share of the profits) or produce branded items like mugs and hats based on popular products. 10) Hybrid concerts. About the Author.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

Click is an exhibition process in three parts: 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.

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Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Joe explains the what makes Pinterest demographically unique in his recent Huffington Post piece, Why and How Causes Should Use Pinterest : “The heavy presence of women 25-44 on Pinterest is what distinguishes it from other new social media platforms, which are generally populated by men 18-24. Pin your students science fair projects.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2011

Lots of museums these days have video comment booths to invite visitors to tell their stories, but how many of those booths really deliver high-impact content? We invited a cross-section of artists, filmmakers, and advertisers to join us for a think tank. So what did you do next? The website for the stories is beautiful.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

If you're interested in this topic, check out this experiment to root out the people behind big companies on Twitter, which recently included this comment about museums: " When museums tweet to each other in first person, I question why the museums don't include the names of the people tweeting." Respond to people. Make the @ your friend.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2009

Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content. Less than 1% of the users of most social Web platform create original content. This is a problem for two reasons.

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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. Then read on, and please share your thoughts in the comments. So you weren't targeting "Brooklyn artists" or some other demographic group. How are you selecting and rewarding these artists?

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

One Million Giraffes is pretty much what it sounds like--a project to collect artistic renderings of one million giraffes. One Million Giraffes is charming and delightful and exciting because it demonstrates the power of collaborative platforms to bring communities together--even around silly things like drawing giraffes.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2015

Our museum is highly participatory: plenty of opportunities for visitors to contribute, for artists to collaborate, for community members to co-create. We need employees who focus less on creating experiences directly for visitors and more on creating platforms for visitors to share with each other.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 12, 2009

Here’s what happened: an art critic named Jerry Saltz posted an incendiary note on Facebook about the very low representation of women artists on the 4th and 5th floors (painting and sculpture) of MoMA. When those spaces are factored in, there are more than 250 works by female artists on view now.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 19, 2015

One of my favorite comments on the first post in this series came from Lyndall Linaker, an Australian museum worker, who asked: " Who decides what is relevant? Committed teens lead the program and use it as a platform to host cultural events and creative projects for hundreds of their peers across the County. My answer: neither.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 18, 2007

Virtual worlds are a new, emerging technology, and like any new technology, overlaying old techniques onto new platforms is disappointing at best. As one YouTube visitor commented: A masterpiece recreated. It's a machinima (video) by Robbie Dingo, a 3D recreation of Van Gogh's Starry Night. But was I with those people in Second Life?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

the comments on this one, including a response manifesto by educational technologist Ira Socol. The good news is that there are hundreds of thousands of people debating the content of every book, scientific principle, and artistic movement on the Web right now. What would you put in your one-page epistle to the future? From the Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. First, if you don't know what the heck I'm talking about, please enjoy (and comment on, if you wish), this explanation (requires speakers). A month ago, I invited you to join this project.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

For performances, your best bet is to use a live-streaming platform such as Twitch (free to use). Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or, for an extra high touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

The Tech Virtual was launched as a two-platform system: a website and a Second Life island. The website serves as a simple social network and exhibit proposal holding place, enabling people to propose projects, join exhibit teams, and comment on each other's work. One of the exhibits features video of original paintings being created.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

For performances, your best bet is using a livestreaming platform such as Twitch (free to use). Still a perfect venue for cultivating sponsorships, you can offer creative rewards like a mention in the event credits or for an extra high-touch, offer breakout rooms to mimic backstage VIP passes to meet and greet the artists.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2007

Did you find that people who had been to the exhibition were commenting on the Flickr page? They would comment on the photos we'd taken and add notes with links to their own profiles. We saw that these artists were using the wall, then telling us about it on Flickr. Were they really using it as a post-visit resource? It depends.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here. That means we collect university press, handmade artist books, zines made by sixth graders, poetry chapbooks from big names published in tiny local presses, and self-published poetry chapbooks sold for a dollar on the street.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 22, 2008

A platform for museum staff to serve as facilitators of safe spaces for difficult conversations? A museum tour in which a docent "tours" you to a variety of volunteer artists who talk about how they create their work. So if I don't respond to your comments right away, it's because I'm between a rock and a. well, you know.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. In Children of the Lodz Ghetto, every data entry is verified by staff in a three-step process as well as reviewed and commented on by other users. This was particularly true for Click!,

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 29, 2007

And while there's lots of good stuff in these sections (including an introduction for me to some wild net artists ), it's the last chunk that interests me most, where Karen explores the question of how and where Internet art should be exhibited. Fear is never a good reason to put things (like ratings or visitor comments) on the website only.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding. The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2015

ABCs: He started off with some basics – a riff on Guy Kawasaki’s Always Be Commenting. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art. As an example, he showed an example of a Harvard page on giphy , a platform to share animated gifs – why would Harvard be there?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The artists come from all over (though many are based in the Midwest), and anyone can enter. Artprize invited me to talk about art with artists, families, security guards, friends, people old and young, sophisticated and novice, drunk and sober. Please add it in the comments. Then get yourself to Grand Rapids for Artprize.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. " I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This time of ye ar, I find that many of my favorite artists , designers, and bloggers start rounding up the trending items and making predictions. T his may mean exp anding your online presence to new platforms or to diversify your engagement tactics. Share them in the comments below! . That and food. I see things like: .

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

.” We’re willing to bet that the NYCB digital team feels the same way, especially when it comes to getting the right content onto Facebook , Twitter, Instagram , LinkedIn , Pinterest , or any other social media marketing platform (we won’t judge you if you’re still trying to make Friendster happen). Fill in the _.

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