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seema rao
@artlust
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going forward, when anyone asks me what it was like growing up in northeast, ohio and how did those experiences inform my understanding of race, i’m going to show this clip of toni morrison reflecting on growing up in the same town as i did.
from the film the foreigner’s home:
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Museum colleagues where are you all going once you leave the industry?
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Yes! talking about how museums can’t focus on money first then programs, we have to make sure true partners are funding the work so we can be honest, following up with how we can better lean in to hard conversations to be relevant today
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If you missed the talk stay tuned to #AASLH2022 for the recording.
It was a great talk with & about TikTok as an important *place* for history learning & engagement. Here's a few of the major points made: /🧵
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Do share your Museum examples! Any howlers out there?
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~ How did you know you weren’t going to get the job during your job interview?
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Here are some tiktoks that I love.
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Excited for virtual #AASLH2022 starting today! Opening session about history using TikTok with @artlust, @KayleighBinDC, and @6figga_dilla (whose Chicago history TikToks I heard about on @waitwait!) should be really good. #HistoryNerd
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Excited for virtual #AASLH2022 starting today! Opening session about history using TikTok with , , and (whose Chicago history TikToks I heard about on !) should be really good. #HistoryNerd
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Museums: Well resourced in terms of having resourceful staff
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Taking white cotton gloves to wash at home because the museum doesn't have a machine is a Core Museum Memory for so many of us.
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What I learned from spending three years researching TikTok: far from being an attention span wasteland, TikTok has great instructional potential for engaged and experimental academics, @williamandmary’s @lizlosh writes on #THECampus bit.ly/3zlDQzQ
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Ke Jo Lee appointed to Chief of Curatorial Affairs and Public Programs (a position supported by a Mellon grant) at , coming to the Bay Area from The cleveland Museum of Art.
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Congratulations! 🥂 - 's Sierra Van Ryck deGroot is in the Blooloop 50 #Museum Influencer List for 2022.
bit.ly/3Nw4jAJ
See the full list here: bit.ly/3W8kS9M
Thanks to our friends at
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My new Op-Ed on TikTok pedagogy cites , , , , and . Check it out!
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What I learned from spending three years researching TikTok: far from being an attention span wasteland, TikTok has great instructional potential for engaged and experimental academics, @williamandmary’s @lizlosh writes on #THECampus bit.ly/3zlDQzQ
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This year, I was able to increase engagement over 200% across LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram for a nonprofit.
How?
Honestly, it was by going back to basics.
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In case you didn't know, you can check up on a nonprofit's financial info from the IRS (called a form 990).
Why?
You could perhaps investigate how a museum director's salary have shifted... you know, just as an example...
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Innit though…
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I send sympathies to all South Indian kids today, nothing we will ever do will be as good as becoming prime minister on Diwali for our parents
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