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Make Art, Meet Strangers

By Elizabeth Merritt

Here’s a story that demonstrates the power of social media to create community: I met Jeff Greenspan via Twitter after I retweeted Michelle DelCarlo (@popupmuseum) when she wrote “Creating communal rather than ‘in tandem’ …
Micro-vlogging: Keeking Up with Social Media Trends

By Elizabeth Merritt

Remember when you though Twitter was just a silly fad? (Heck, maybe you still do.) Many people were skeptical about Twitter when it launched in 2006, but that microblog platform took off in 2009 and has turned out to be a popular way for …
Report from #FutrChat

By Elizabeth Merritt

Last Thursday eighty-three futurists and museumers participated in #futrchat on Twitter, co-hosted by the Association of Professional Futurists (APF) and CFM. The tweets flew fast and furious (over 600 of them!) as our sectors exchanged …
Planning A Phenomenon: The Benefits of Consistency

By Elizabeth Merritt

Readers of this blog may already be familiar with the Philbrook Museum of Art and its savvy use of social media, via this popular poston their Cat Cam. Today Jeff Martin, online communities manager for PMA, gives us an update on their …
Using Pinterest to See the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

What is the fastest growing social media startup-of-the-moment? Pinterest, a site devoted to “visual scrapbooking.” Pinterest’s first investor, Brian Cohen, attributes the site’s burgeoning popularity to “people’s natural desire to curate …
Open Authority & the Future of Museum Ethics

By Elizabeth Merritt

Lori Byrd Phillips is the U.S. Cultural Partnerships Coordinator for the Wikimedia Foundation and the Wikipedian in Residence at The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis. As a museum studies graduate student at Indiana University-Purdue …
The Curation of Collaboration: Experiments in Mobilizing Museum Archives

By Elizabeth Merritt

This guest post is by Gaurav Vaidya, Andrea Thomer, Rob Guralnick and David Bloom. Gaurav, a graduate student at CU Boulder, has been editing Wikipedia since 2002. Rob is a biodiversity informatician, museum curator and collaborative …
Steampunk, Crowdfunding and the Power of Social Media

By Elizabeth Merritt

Or, How One Exhibit Company Pulled A Brass Elephant Out Of A Hat This week’s guest post is by Peter Overstreet. Pete and his wife, Cat Taylor, founded the exhibit and event design company Aeronaut Productions LLC. Pete was a full-time …
Tailor your Twitterverse to the Future

By Elizabeth Merritt

Thanksgiving 2011 marked a CFM milestone—we topped 10,000 followers on Twitter. I was thankful about that—I like to think it means we are sharing information people find useful and informative. And maybe a little fun. I know some folks …
Building a Better Fishing Pole: how technology-focused organizations can help their museum community

By Elizabeth Merritt

Many museums are struggling to navigate the expanding universes of social media and digital content with the slim resources available to them in constrained budgets. Fortunately, some entrepreneurial museums are breaking trail—pooling …