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Populism, Commercialism, and Jeffrey Deitch: The Shifting Debate about LA MOCA

Museum 2.0

That contemporary art museum is on the front of the LA Times again," she said. I can't believe that an art museum can be front page news in LA for days." He was mandated to turn the ship around financially and to expand the reach of the museum in the community. The discussion then shifted to the overall direction of the museum.

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What I Learned from Beck (the rock star) about Participatory Arts

Museum 2.0

In his thoughtful preface to this project, I reconnected with five lessons I''ve learned from participatory projects in museums and cultural sites. If there are museum objects and visitors'' objects on display together, all should be afforded the same level of exhibit design, labels, etc. Constrain the input, free the output.

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Adventures in Participatory Audience Engagement at the Henry Art Gallery

Museum 2.0

This winter, I once again taught a graduate class in the University of Washington's Museology program. The exhibition looked like any standard contemporary white box with artwork and labels, albeit featuring an eclectic mix of works and signed labels (to accentuate the role of different voices). This year, we took a different approach.

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Do You Have a Good Argument for Your Institution?

Museum 2.0

As I drop 5 cent tokens into my slots of choice, I often wonder: could my museum be on this list? If you talk about a "cultural institution" or an "arts and culture" project, people might think you are talking about something specific to a set of individuals who share common heritage, not something universally shared.

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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. o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site.

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Get Social Covered: 13 Lesser Known Social Media Sites for Your NPO

NonProfit Hub

How it works for nonprofits: This helps you be a voice for whatever cause you’re advocating. Find key influencers out in the world who are advocating for the same message as you and link to them in your Paper.li. It’s a news aggregator that pulls from your social media feed to create an e-newspaper that you can send out.

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PostSecret: Lessons in Meaningful User-Generated Content

Museum 2.0

Recently, I’ve become a little disheartened by the extent to which the web has dominated my—and others’—thinking about ways that museums can integrate 2.0 But today I had an experience that reinvigorated my love for and belief in tangible projects that can fill museums with content that is user-generated, shared, and explored.