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Take a Side Trip to the Denver Art Museum

Museum 2.0

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It’s a thrilling challenge to the traditional form of art museum exhibit design, and better yet, visitors like it.

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

Museum 2.0

You can view and download all the slides here. I was particularly thrilled by danah boyd's excellent talk about the politics of how teens use social media and how the social web reinforces societal inequity and self-segregation. They are meant to teach ways of learning and processing information, not to solicit specific content.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

Museum 2.0

You can see or download my slides and you can watch the video of the talk. I used the example of the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which has a mission statement that includes unusual words like “bold” and “fearless.” I worked on one project in which the client institution thought they wanted unfettered teen expression.

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Don't Talk to Strangers? Safety 2.0

Museum 2.0

The recent flurry of restrictions that has sent teens fleeing? I can just imagine the headline: CHILD MOLESTERS CALL ON ART, VICTIMS. How can going to an art museum be more like going to a convention for people who love art? When you think of MySpace, what is the first thing that comes to mind? The irritating design?

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What I Learned From @Sree Sreenivasan Chief Digital Officer of @MetMuseum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Later, when were chatting with a small group of people in the lobby, we noticed a group of teens walking by looking a little sad. Artists have been using the right tool at the right time to make art. Everything we do is in service of the art. Everything we do is in service of the art.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Charlene Li's latest slide deck about engagement, relationships, and social media. The engagement pyramid on slide 15 reminds of the ladder of engagement. Emily Troutman has just launched a new online art/journalism project with a social conscious. Twitter Demographics: Last month, we learned that Teens Don't Tweet.

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[VIDEO] Get More Grants with Donor Cultivation

Bloomerang

I just want to let you all know that we are recording in this session, and we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. Margit, I’m going to stop sharing and I’ll let you pull up your beautiful slides because I know you’ve got a lot of good stuff. I’ll have to update this slide.

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