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Museums and Flickr

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online exhibit developed by the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico and Ideum. I picked up the phone and got a hold of Jim Spadaccini, founder of Ideum, whose blog post I discovered via a discussion thread on flickr and museums on the museum technology list. In this post, I???m

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Theatre Flashmobs on YouTube and Swarms of Theater Goers on FourSquare

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  I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog. Back in December, the Brooklyn Museum started to experiment with FourSquare running a promotion to get people to check in and get a free membership. 

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Quick Hit: 2010 Horizon Report on New Technologies and Museums

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The folks at the New Media Consortium have released their annual Horizon Report , a roundup of up-and-coming technologies relevant to museums, archives, and libraries. The Horizon Reports ARE really useful if you need arsenal to explain the relevance, utility, or educational value of new technologies in your museum.

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The Magic Tweet: Crowdsourcing Opera Analysis

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A few months back, the San Francisco Symphony used YouTube to crowdsource auditions for a mashup peformance. Woudn't it be cool for the audience to rate the opera using their mobile phones? . This isn't the first time a classical music organization has turned to social media and crowdsourcing. How do you evaluate this?

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What is Twitter, Really? And Can it Do Anything for Museums?

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There's twittervision , twitter's most popular mashup, which shows tweets (twitter entries) real-time on a global map. And many more mashups and applications available here. This means that you can broadcast messages to a group of friends/followers from your phone, your IM service, or the web, and can receive messages similarly.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

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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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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As the latest technology allows people to “engage” from their computers/phones rather than getting their hands dirty IRL, will this impact the future of volunteerism? Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. Can Double Clicking Save the World? Sl’ack-Ti-vism. Submitted by Jacob Colker.