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Social Media Primer | major social media channels used by museums
Social Media is taking the museum world by storm! Most major museums have Facebook pages and are actively tweeting at a minimum. So you’ve heard the term Social Media but what does it actually mean?...
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With over 500 million users, one in every 13 people on planet Earth is on Facebook. Museums, zoos, aquaria and other informal educational institutions have also jumped onto the Facebook bandwagon. Most...
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Pinterest is the latest craze in Social Media. Although there are not many museums that have embraced Pinterest, there are a handful that have. Some notable examples are the J. Paul Getty Museum,...
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Why Museums Don’t Suck for Older Teens and Young Adults
Recently I read an article written by a very smart and humorous 15 year-old named Howard called Why Museums Suck. Mike Murawski from the Art Museum Teaching blog wrote a thoughtful response called Why...
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Is Your Museum’s Blog Social?
Museum blogging is a hot topic of conversation this last week or so, largely due to a sharp panel of bloggers at the Museum Computer Network 2012 Annual Conference in Seattle. I wasn’t able to attend...
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Museums and Social Media Wisdom
If you’ve been reading our blog for a while, you probably know that I have a particular interest in the possibilities of social media. I’ve been researching the subject like mad because I think...
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How to Run a Great Museum Ed Twitter Feed: @MoMALearning
Last Friday I had the opportunity to speak with Stephanie Pau (@17reasons) and Jessica Baldenhofer (@jbaldenhofer), the tweeters behind @MoMALearning, one of my favorite museum ed twitter streams....
View ArticleTo Tweet or Not to Tweet in the Museum
I recently had a conversation with a museum educator about how twitter can be used to engage audiences. We were speaking specifically about using twitter hashtags in an art history lecture-based course...
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#DrinkingAboutMuseums #Lichtenstein
Some of the Drinking About Museums attendees discussing #DavidBowieIs at the pub I would like to report a wildly successful #drinkingaboutmuseums #DavidBowieIs at the V&A at the beginning of April....
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Turning Up the Dial on Museum Education
Are museums a dial that only goes to 5? from Michael Edson Michael Edson (@mpedson), web guru at the Smithsonian, posted this slideshare on February 27, 2013 for Social Media Week, a series of...
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Has Social Media Killed the Newsletter?
Bear with me as I travel back to 2008/9 and debate Newsletters vs. Social Media. I’m in a new role where I am in charge of both of these offerings and, like many of you, have limited time and resources...
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The Value of Museum Selfies
I thought the culture wars were over. Didn’t you? A relic of the past when we believed that Art belonged in a temple where the elite could have “transformative” moments while quietly and waspishly...
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