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On White Privilege and Museums

Museum 2.0

Two weeks ago, Roberto Bedoya asked several arts bloggers, including me, to write a post reflecting on Whiteness and its implications for the arts. I write this piece in good faith about the organizations I know best: museums. The vast majority of American museums are institutions of white privilege.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats. intl/en/landing/internetstats. Google Mobile :: google.com/mobile.

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Art, Social Change & Young Women Bloggers

Have Fun - Do Good

On Friday our mentor cycle ended and a new one will begin with a new mentor blogger tomorrow (Sunday). This is a project of the Getty Museum. (I I know I read about it in someone's blog this week, but now I've forgotten whose so my apologies for not giving a blogger out there credit for the find).

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Blame the Crowd, Not the Camera: Challenges to a New Open Photo Policy at the National Gallery

Museum 2.0

Five years ago, I wrote a post arguing that museum photo policies should be as open as possible. I believe that the ability to take photographs (no flash) in a museum greatly increases many people''s abilities to personalize, memorialize, and enjoy the experience. How many museums? Some people can sketch in museums.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click.

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Second Life: Issue Awareness Raising Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm so grateful that other bloggers and colleagues like Rik Riel do such excellent coverage of what's happening in Second Life. I stopped by his location on enroute to the Museums and Second Life meeting dropped some lindens in his donation box. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. A Facebook app that creatively displays you and your Facebook friends in a virtual museum. To begin, your first step is to login to JustCoz.org with your Twitter account to create a Cause page for your nonprofit.

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