Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. I've covered arts organizations and social media here and there over the past three years and last winter co-wrote a cover story article with Rebecca Krause-Hardie for ArtsReach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2007

online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. Nina Simon from the Museums and Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

And the good news is that if you've never created web videos before and don't have the big bucks to hire a professional, there is enough time to learn. is a new art form that re-uses commercial video-game environments to make animated films. The Museum of the Moving Image is hosting the 2006 Machinima Festival this weekend in NYC.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. The Walker Art Center is turning its teen website over to the teens. So what's next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

Why Museum Professionals Should Use Flickr from the Musem 2.0 Indianapolis Museum of Art Visitors sharing photos in a group. Full Stop Campaign - google maps and flickr mashup. A List of Examples. Overview article from December NTEN newsletter. he Hold The Sign Meme : Examples of different campaigns on flickr.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

I've become convinced that successful paths to participation in museums start with self-identification. The easiest way to do that is to acknowledge their uniqueness and validate their ability to connect with the museum on their own terms. Who is the "me" in the museum experience? Not so at museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique.

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