Tag Archives: socialnetworking

Should I Stay or Should I Go?

Posted on September 7, 2011 by Shelley Bernstein

An interesting post popped up at ReadWriteWeb yesterday that evaluates our social media efforts across platforms—the author questions if we are spread too thin and in my response you’ll find me making a passionate argument about the choices we’ve made. The post does … Continue reading…

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Crowdsourcing the Clean-Up with Freeze Tag!

Posted on May 21, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

As most of our readers know, we encourage tagging on our online collection and we created Tag! You’re It to make that contribution more fun and more relevant.  We’ve been surprised at the tagging that has taken place, how much … Continue reading…

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1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for February 2009: Mary Temple

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

We all know this feeling, right? When you walk into an exhibition and there’s one work that really stops you in your tracks? On a recent trip to Pittsburgh, it happened to me at the Mattress Factory‘s Inner and Outer … Continue reading…

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Wikipedia Loves Art, full house!

Posted on January 26, 2009 by Shelley Bernstein

In addition to our original partners (Indianapolis Museum of Art, The Jewish Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, V&A) we’ve now been joined by Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carnegie Museum of Art, … Continue reading…

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1stfans Twitter Art Feed Artist for January 2009: An Xiao

Posted on December 23, 2008 by Will Cary

In the same spirit that we asked Swoon to launch 1stfans in person (that is to say, with the Museum’s existing community in mind), we are delighted to announce that An Xiao is going to be the first artist on … Continue reading…

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The Community Fills a Void at The Commons on Flickr

Posted on December 18, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

You may have read about the departure of George Oates in the media, but if not check out Seb’s blog post on the subject for starters. The thing that I worried about most with George’s absence was the idea that … Continue reading…

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1stfans Twitter Art Feed & open call

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

One of the things we are really excited about with the launch of 1stfans is giving these new members something they can really get into. Each month this will include a new event in-person at each Target First Saturday and … Continue reading…

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getting to know our 1stfans

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

It’s funny, if you know me, I’m sure you can imagine that I would have had a total fit if someone came into my office pitching an “web 2.0″ membership (yes, yes, go ahead and LOL at the thought of … Continue reading…

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introducing 1stfans: a socially networked museum membership

Posted on December 5, 2008 by Will Cary

Working in Membership means my job is to get people excited about and involved with the Museum. In that way, my job is just as much community-builder as it is fundraiser. Though our Membership base is sizable and diverse, I’ve … Continue reading…

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Whoa, we won a Forrester Groundswell Award!

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

This is more than a little overwhelming for us, but we’ve just been notified that the Brooklyn Museum has won a 2008 Forrester Groundswell Award in the Social Impact category. I won’t go into how great the book is—Nina has … Continue reading…

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Exhibition Index Re-Launch, New Collection Features and Tagging Update

Posted on September 26, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

The most exciting thing we’ve got going online this week is the re-launch of our Exhibition Index. The original index (below, left) has been online for some time, but had been limited to a listing format linking to basic pages … Continue reading…

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ArtShare Revisited

Posted on September 2, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Facebook upgraded the design of the user profiles and we knew some action would be required on our part to overhaul ArtShare along with it.  We could only devote a few days to adjustments and this meant making some hard … Continue reading…

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Collection Preview (and re-thinking tagging)

Posted on July 15, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Our collection is going online and this is something we’ve been working on for a long time. Although we have some clean up to do and we won’t be layering this feature into our website until early next week, if … Continue reading…

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ArtShare takes Silver!

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

ArtShare, the Brooklyn Museum’s Facebook application just won a Silver award in the Online Presence category of the American Association of Museums MUSE awards. We are in great company with the Powerhouse taking Gold for its online Collection (a project … Continue reading…

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ArtShare on Facebook: A Progress Report

Posted on February 11, 2008 by Shelley Bernstein

Having launched in early November, we now have just over 1000 people using ArtShare on Facebook. I’m happy to say we’ve been joined by five other institutions (IMA, Met, Powerhouse, V&A, Walters) with a few more on the way soon. … Continue reading…

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