Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2006

is a new art form that re-uses commercial video-game environments to make animated films. Combining aspects of animation, game development, puppetry, graffiti, fan fiction, and improvisational theater into a moving image art form, machinima represents the latest frontier of digital popular culture. Machinima, derived from the words ???machine???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Crowdsourcing for knowledge creation can include “mashups of data.&# Crowds create original works of knowledge or art. The Royal Opera used Twitter to crowdsource a new opera. Does being engaged in the creation of the work spur more appreciation for the art form and hopefully attention and participation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Here is an example of an artistic program or creative process undertaken as a crowd and it isn't a cheap publicity stunt. This isn't the first time a classical music organization has turned to social media and crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2007

I think of her work as a mashup between an extremely talented court room artist, journalist, social activist and philanthropist. Ashely Cecil is fundraising on her blog for her upcoming to visit Venezuela this February with Witness for Peace where art will meet social activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

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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The Verge

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Today let’s talk about another of them: a startup called Royal that hopes to upend the traditional relationship between music labels and artists, with potentially significant implications for the kind of culture that gets created. Occasionally, an alternative artist would strike out on their own and start an independent label.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 4, 2025

In Chicago, for example, author Rebecca Makkai offers a guide to social art and literature events, and in Toronto, DJ Hangalle gives users a guide to the citys nightlife. Image: Eventbrite] Theres a mashup of niche interests coming together in really creative ways offline, she says.

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