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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies?

Museum 2.0

I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Are participatory activities happening on the web because that is the best place for them? Instead, I found a standard art museum.

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Joint Statement from Museum Bloggers and Colleagues on Ferguson and Related Events

Museum 2.0

Schools and other arts organizations are rising to the challenge. University law schools are hosting seminars on Ferguson. Artists and arts organizations are contributing their spaces and their creative energies. Museums are a part of this educational and cultural network. What should be our role(s)? inclusion'

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Teenagers and Social Participation

Museum 2.0

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. I immediately flashed to my work with art museums and staff members' concerns that older, traditional audiences will shy away from social engagement in the galleries. Tags: youth Talking to Strangers.

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Quick Hit: Upcoming Experiments and Workshops

Museum 2.0

We tried this at the Denver Art Museum last week, and it is incredibly challenging—you can’t just put out a box of chocolates and expect people to talk. We’ll be tackling tough questions around how to design elegant, physical substantiations of virtual functions like tagging and personalization.

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Remix This Power Point!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, I presented this seminar to University Extension Professionals. I would love to develop more indepth training workshop or webinar on this topic, geared more for nonprofits and participatory campaigns, perhaps incorporating the Creative Commons Open Content Game. I have been doing a seminar called "Ten Steps to Web2.0"

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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

As I imagined a world without Nina Simon ’s Participatory Museum , I felt sad about all the visitors whose voices (and post-it note comments) weren’t honored. Collections are not obvious or universally understood: In this decade, the word interpretation was super fancy and important. Where will it go in the next?

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