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Guest Post: A Tale of Two University Museums

Museum 2.0

I immediately recalled a phenomenon I witnessed as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). The Rhode Island School of Design was established in 1877 alongside its Museum of Art, an important resource for RISD students. The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab was established in 1937, also as a resource for students.

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Chicago Symphony Social Media Strategy: What happens when people outside your organization set up a presence on Facebook?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

t have an extensive classical music background, but learned quickly and learned to love it even quicker. We posted our new music director announcement with an update, links and information. Compare that to the average age of classical music patrons, which usually runs toward the mid-fifties or even sixties. In addition, we???ve

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Cameras for Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project will begin with 5 students, and expand up to ten as the project grows. A university-aged Khmer assistant with an interest in photography will also be recruited. The organization also sponsors the dance and music program at Kampong Speu Orphanage where my daughter lived for 18 months.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

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They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. ll be inviting all kinds of people, including designers, artists, young people, families, students and Tate staff, to share their ideas. Over the next six months we???ll

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Guest Post by Alan Levine: Social Media Recap from NMC 2009

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(it was the NMC’s 15th anniversary) that got rolled into a NMC@15 video , and a chance to sign up for 15 minutes of studio time on the John Lennon Bus to create a package of sharable music loops. You might see an over representation of Point Lobos- this is because of the pre-conference digital photography workshop a few of us (including me!)

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Using Photography to Change the World: An Interview with Paola Gianturco

Have Fun - Do Good

They were using music, dance, poetry, and storytelling, and they were succeeding. A high school English teacher in Zimbabwe, whose name is Betty Makoni , began hearing stories from her students after school, that they had been raped. For me, that meant photography, which I have done since I was eight, and traveling, which I love.