Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

The "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art manages to both celebrate and betray fair use at the same time. These are canonical fair uses -- an artist who takes from another artist and uses his work to make new work. It's really out of our hands.

Los Angeles 50

Los Angeles Remix Museum Artist 50

Care2

JANUARY 13, 2012

Pin masterpieces from the budding artists in your arts classes. If you're a museum, zoo, or aquarium: 19. In exhibits and galleries where photography is permitted, of course!) To pull this off well you'll want to print up some effective signage to orient people to what Pinterest is about and how the museum is using it.

Ideas 78

Ideas Images Flickr Adopt 78

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

A group of individuals has more knowledge for solving a problem than any single individual. Brooklyn Museum implemented a crowdsourced photography exhibit experiment called “ Click! Here’s an overview of the different types and some examples for each in philanthropy and doing. (1) A Crowd-Curated Exhibition.”

Measure 96

Measure Fund Impact Minnesota 96

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

These are grassroots organizations, and they were helping each other with the most intractable problems that face women everywhere: domestic violence, sex trafficking, disease, discrimination. For me, that meant photography, which I have done since I was eight, and traveling, which I love. At each step, I have been learning.

Photography 40

Photography Interview Zimbabwe Change 40

Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

No, these are neither the words of a self-important curator nor a well-spoken museum director. the crowd-curated photo exhibition now open at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. It is a substantive research contribution by the museum to the social technology field at large. Things like this are far and few between.

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Museum Artist Photography Arts 20