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• January 25, 2017

  #MuseumSelfie: Using the Selfie for Good

  The selfie is a unique type of self-portrait, that while not limited to mobile phone based photography, has definitely increased over the last decade. On the one hand, it has been argued that the selfie is part of self-aggrandizing and narcissistic behavior. Halpern, Valenzuela and Katz (2016) found that “narcissist individuals take selfies more frequently…
• December 19, 2016

  Field Trip: Rockwell Museum + Corning Museum

  One of my favorite ways to get inspiration is to visit (and support) other museums and cultural institutions. Not only is it a great way to see first hand how other institutions are engaging with the public, but it also allows you to take the perspective of a visitor and see how effective the engagement is.…
• November 24, 2016

  A Quick Lesson on Capturing and Displaying Tweets

  If you’ve been following #MuseumNext, you may have seen the fantastic interactive of Twitter conversations created by Andrea Ledesma. During #UpstateSocial16, I shared a circular dendrogram that showed the location of individuals who were using the conference’s hashtag. What these both have in common, is that they are using TAGS 6.1 to capture tweets. TAGS 6.1…
• August 13, 2016

  An exciting new adventure…

  After 6 years of blogging as Bones Don’t Lie, I’m excited to start this new adventure. This space will become a place where I can share my experiments using digital tools to engage online, news and updates from the broader field of social media, and just some of the fun projects I’m working on. I…