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Every Social Media Manager should be under 25

Silagh — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:45:07 GMT

This Storify starts with the article I mentioned in class yesterday. I quickly added a few response articles and comments from various sources after. As you read through the sources, you'll start to see a common pattern.

Storified by Silagh · Tue, Aug 28 2012 07:45:07

Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25 - NextGen Journal

Cathryn Sloane Facebook began in 2004. Twitter kicked off in 2006. I, along with everyone else in my generation, can remember exactly who...

Every Social Media Manager Should be Under 25 (Really?)

There was an interesting article in the NextGen Journal earlier this month.It argues that every social media manager should be be under 2...

A Response to: 'Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under ...

Jul 23, 2012 ... Over on NextGen Journal, a young woman named Cathryn Sloane has kicked up a lot of dialog with a blog post entitled, &...

The Reason "Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under ...

Jul 25, 2012 ... Catherine Sloan's recent blog post on Nextgen Journal, Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25, has gene...

Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25 (I kid you not ...

Jul 25, 2012 ... Why Every Social Media Manager Should Be Under 25 (I kid you not). Hmmm. Much to discuss on this link-bait ridden arti...

Mr. Imagination - reflections

Silagh — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 14:25:50 GMT

This story is a compilation of digital stories and reflections of the outsider artist, Gregory Warmack, a.k.a "Mr. Imagination." Mr. I lived and created in Bethlehem, PA for about 8 years. What follows is a presentation of his work, recognition and collected reflections.

Storified by Silagh · Fri, Jun 01 2012 07:25:50

This first three links are to galleries that have shown and sold Mr. Imagination's work. They are presented here to give the reader a better sense of his style, prolific output, and imagination.

Mr_I

Contemporary Illinois), State of Illinois Art Gallery, Chicago, IL Illinois at Chicago, Chicago IL 1996 Society for Contemporary Craft, P...

Mr. Imagination was a founding member of Who-Ha Da-Da, a movement began in 2002 dedicated to contemporary vernacular American Southern art. An outgrowth of the folk art movement, Who-Ha Da-Da is an extension of the values of its folk art founders re-incarnated in a contemporary generation of practitioners who have had the benefit of public education, exposure to mass media and access to advanced technology.

Mr. Imagination - Who-Ha Da-Da

Sample works, background, shows and more on Mr. Imagination.

Mr. Imagination - Barbara Archer Gallery

Snake 67" x 5" x 5" mixed media $5500 post-fire, Toilet Brush Figure, 2011 21" x 8" x 4" mixed media $800...

This link only shows one page of collected works. Noe of the links for the images work, the the images of the works themselves are included for more reference of his art.

Mr Imagination

Real name - Gregory Warmack. This prolific Chicago artist uses bottle caps, industrial sandstone and used paint brushes to create prima...

The following post lists some of Mr. I's works, and Richard A Webster discusses the life and work of the inspirational artist:

Mr. Imagination Art for sale: Gregory Warmack

title: Head inventory: MRI-3328 media: Sandstone size: 12 x 19 inches price: contact gallery. Mr. Imagination. artist: Mr. Imagination ...

A preview of Mr. I; The man whom Rebecca Huffberger (founder and director of the American Visionary Art Museum) calls, "one of the supreme practitioner of visionary art" in the world has earned a reputation as a genius of creative reuse, deeply original, highly prolific, a model of perseverance.

Article written by Eileen Drennen ror the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

Visual arts preview: Mr. Imagination | accessAtlanta

Feb 3, 2011 ... "Wait right here," Mr. Imagination says before ducking back into the dark, art- choked living room of his comp...

1:24 - Mr. Imagination demonstrates his technique.

Mr. Imagination for PUSSYFOOT · thehomeofpussyfoot

This links to a blog created by Greg Heller-LaBelle after Mr. I's house burned on January 21, 2008. Greg created this to help rally the support troupes for Mr. Imagination

Mr. Imagination

May 28, 2008 ... One slideshow is of Mr. I and a very special guest: Bethlehem Mayor John Callahan, who stopped by to add a piece to th...

Only five months after the devastating fire, 2008 The Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission Mayor's Award went to Gregory "Mr. Imagination" Warmack, the self-taught artist, teacher and Good Samaritan who bonds the local cultural community with the passion of his cemented-bottlecap shrines. The award was one of many recent gifts to Mr. I, who in January lost most of his treasures -- bottlecap throne, beloved dog Pharoah, late mother's hair -- when a fire destroyed his south Bethlehem row house.

Awards show art's power to teach, heal

The Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission's 18th Tribute to the Arts luncheon, held Friday at the Hotel Bethlehem, rewarded health, education an...

When he was living in Atlanta, GA. Mr. I spoke about the fire in 2008 and the work he was doing. The interview was done for Black Art in America on June 24, 2010.

Mr. Imagination talks with www.blackartinamerica.com · najeedorsey

Mr. Imagination rises again - Black Art In America

The renowned visionary artist who first captivated his Chicago hometown by turning castoffs like industrial sandstone and bottlecaps into...

2012 National Arts Advocacy Day

Silagh — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 15:43:30 GMT

This may seem like a creepy homage to Alec Baldwin. I assure you, it's not. It is the nature of national arts advocacy work to enlist some star power to raise the visibility of a conversation that in all honesty, needs to happen year round. For your consideration, a compilation of items for AAD12

Storified by Silagh · Thu, Apr 19 2012 08:43:30

National Arts Advocacy Day, April 16-17, 2012. Washington DC.

Join me & @Americans4Arts in celebrating Arts Advocacy Day! The arts must be accessible to all Americans #AAD12 http://bit.ly/ImVRju
— Yoko Ono · Tue, Apr 17 2012 05:01:18

In case you missed it...it's Arts Advocacy Day in DC. Many tweets to follow #aad12
— artsusa.org · Tue, Apr 17 2012 06:10:21

Arts 'Beyond Essential' to Culture, Says Alec Baldwin | National News | United States | Epoch Times

Alec Baldwin and an ensemble of performers, artists, and arts business founders made an impassioned plea for support for the arts in Wash...

RT @JessicaLWilt: "The arts do not exist in isolation" Rocco Landesman @NEAarts #AAD12
— Creative Coalition · Wed, Apr 18 2012 09:38:49

RT @ArtistRebuttal: The arts are essential to every classroom and creative thinking vital to anyone entering today's work force. #AAD12
— Art & Soul · Wed, Apr 18 2012 09:33:00

Thanks to OvationTV for the amazingly quick turn around, we get to see some clips from the Monday night Nancy Hanks lecture that preceded all of the activity on Capital Hill Tuesday.

ARTSblog " Blog Archive " Clips from Alec Baldwin's Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts & Public Policy

Our friends at Ovation work quickly. They just posted this video on YouTube covering the early part of Alec Baldwin's presentation of the...

My personal reflections of Alec Baldwin's Nancy Hanks lecture, carefully written to respect the archived speech by the Americans for the Arts.

Notes from the 2012 Nancy Hanks Lecture: Alec Baldwin

I had a very strict usher shut down the very tool that makes live tweeting possible. Do attendants have issues with Alec Baldwin and wire...

View all past transcripts of previous lectures (some include audio) on the Americans for the Arts

Arts Advocacy Day 2012: Nancy Hanks Lecture

Alec Baldwin Read full bio "The 25th Annual Nancy Hanks Lecture on Arts and Public PolicyApril 16, 2012, 6:30 p.m.John F. Kennedy Center ...

A little bit of respite and inspiration from Ben Folds - performance of "The Luckiest", Ben performed this before the lecture; accompanied by alumni musicians of the Young Arts program.

Ben Folds and WASO - The Luckiest · neosync05

Celebrities including Alec Baldwin visited Capitol Hill Tuesday to shine their spotlight on federal funding for the arts.

Actors, musicians visit Congress for more federal funding for arts programs

WASHINGTON - Celebrities including Alec Baldwin visited Capitol Hill Tuesday to shine their spotlight on federal funding for the arts.

Alec Baldwin Campaigns For More Arts Funding : NPR

Alec Baldwin appeared in Congress this week to argue for increased funding for the National Endowment for the Arts. The NEA is receiving ...

Actor Alec Baldwin played the role of the old pro Tuesday, visiting Capitol Hill as part of Arts Advocacy Day. Leading a merry band of singers, dancers and actors, Baldwin noted that he had been lobbying for the arts since 1990 … He added that he didn't have much advice to dish out to the greener members of his delegation. "I gave...advice on federal aviation cell phone rules," Baldwin joked making reference to his recent spat with American Airlines.

Baldwin, Folds and friends lobby Congress for the arts | Washington Examiner

Actor Alec Baldwin played the role of the old pro Tuesday, visiting Capitol Hill as part of Arts Advocacy Day. Leading a merry band of si...

Joining him for a day of congressional visits will be singer-songwriter Ben Folds, actors Hill Harper, Melina Kanakaredes, Omar Benson Miller, Johnathon Schaech and Tiffani Thiessen; American Idol and So You Think You Can Dance producer Nigel Lythgoe and country music star Clay Walker.

Spring on Fourth 2012

Silagh — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:20:34 GMT

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Storified by Silagh · Thu, Apr 05 2012 12:20:34

Springon4th: New Logo design for the 2012 Spring on Fourth

Kudos to graphic designer Christiän Weber for the great new look: So people - what do you think?

RT @LVwithLove: @srkishy April 21, here is the FB page http://on.fb.me/HOs2Gm Spring on 4th! What's on 3rd? @dwntwnbethlehem
— Spring onFourth · Tue, Apr 03 2012 11:44:17

You won't have to wait in the LONG line the day of the event (April 21, 2012, 11am-3pm)

Springon4th: Order your Tickets Now!

Only 33 more days until the Spring on Fourth community festival and chili contest! And you know what that means? Time to pre-order your p...

Crowd Funding - ENTR 198 lecture 4/3/12

Silagh — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:47:53 GMT

Revenue resources hit social media for artists and entrepreneurs

Storified by Silagh · Fri, Apr 06 2012 08:47:53

First article, published March 16, 2012:"...the prospect of financial crowd-sourcing on the Internet has been enthusiastically embraced by some as an important new model for the future of arts financing."

Kickstarter and Artspire as Models of Arts Financing

As formerly reliable employers and patrons struggle to pay their own bills, artists have been forced to intensify their hunt for new fund-raising strategies. Even fictional artists have been affected. On the new NBC series "Smash," the Broadway producer Eileen Rand (Anjelica Huston) tries to sell her beloved Degas just to finance a workshop.

Published March 28, 2012 from a Seattle based media group: "With more than $150 million projected to fund thousands of projects on Kickstarter this year, co-founder Yancey Strickler made a bold comparison during a February interview with web-news site Talking Points Memo: “It is probable Kickstarter will distribute more money this year than the NEA.” “But maybe it shouldn’t be that way,” he continued. “Maybe there’s a reason for the state to strongly support the arts.” Americans have rarely come close to agreement about the role of art in society, let alone how to fund it. But a growing consensus in the media and the general public contends that crowd funding is a democratizing force, a peer-to-peer system of market-driven benevolence far more fair and efficient than the traditional, top-down model of government and foundation support."

Crowd Funding: Show Me the Money | City Arts Magazine

In the face of daunting financial challenges, artists are interfacing directly with the people who matter most: you. But how does that af...

Next, published April 2 on the San Francisco Business Insider, here is a compilation of various Crowdfunding sites (to date - not sure if this list is completely exhaustive; but there is more than KickStarter

Crowdfunding Sites Are Springing Up Like Dandelions

On Thursday, President Obama is scheduled to sign the JOBS Act which makes it easier to raise funds online. (Although not as easy as the ...

Mashable is a great resource for social media and technology topics. This link changes as posts and articles are collected on the topic of crowdfunding

Crowdfunding

Crowd funding alternately,Crowdfunding(sometimes called crowd financing, equity crowdfunding, crowd sourced capital, or street performer ...

Published March 26, 2012 in the NYTimes. (you may need to sign up to access the article)Crowdfunding has grown beyond the arts (they are always first to try new things, no?) ".. Over the last several years, I have often had to balance the short-term demands of investors with the long-term needs of TerraCycle. Unfortunately, the two do not always coincide. Thus the appeal of equity crowd-funding for socially responsible businesses, which would result in a diverse spread of investors who are focused as much on the company’s impact as on financial returns. This prospect is most relevant to social entrepreneurs, which much of the other coverage of this legislation has missed. I believe the long-term goals and socially responsible mindset of these investors will add stability to capital markets. Entrepreneurs looking to finance socially responsible start-ups will use crowd-funding to find capital from patient investors who want long-term results and not just a quick exit."

Crowdfunding and Social Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs looking to finance socially responsible start-ups will use crowd-funding to attract capital from patient investors who want long-term results and not just a quick exit.

Here's a nice video that sums up the process

Info graphics are a easy way to understand work flow to a system. Carefully read through this to understand how crowdsourcing works.

A Guide to Kickstarter & Crowd Funding [INFOGRAPHIC]

Kickstarter is one of the most visible companies in the burgeoning crowd funding space - if not the only player in the game - thanks to p...

If the infographic above isn't enough to help you understand the system of crowd sourcing, here's a video that explains crowdsourcing and crowdfunding

Crowdsourcing and Crowdfunding Explained ·

The "Kickstarter is Out-Funding the NEA" got a major boost in national conversation at the SXSW - This article reveals a growing concern that crowdfunding may usurp advocacy to keep public funding available in the National Endowment for the Arts. And that's a whole OTHER issue! This conversation started all the way back in February - the article was published Feb 24, 2012.

Kickstarter Is On Track to Out-Fund the National Endowment for the Arts

Yancey Strickler, a co-founder of Kickstarter, said today that the crowd-sourced funding machine is on track to distribute over $150 mill...

On February 28, 2012, this blogger (via Tumblr) writes about the potential pitfalls of crowdfunding. "Although crowdfunding is an appropriate and effective fundraising tool for certain individuals and businesses (it seems to work particularly well for artists, musicians and designers), it raises a number of red flags for start-ups and small businesses trying to raise equity capital. "

The Potential Perils of Crowdfunding

Whether you are just launching your business or are a small business looking to grow, raising capital in our current economic climate is ...

Example of one KickStarter Campaign - all require a short video.

Truth in Theatre vs. Journalism (Mike Daisey)

Silagh — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 20:56:57 GMT

After an investigation into the backstory behind the blow-up of the first retraction on This American Life, what follows is a compilation of opinions and perspective.

Storified by Silagh · Wed, Mar 21 2012 13:56:57

RT @chrislhayes: Anyway I think we can all agree that the single most important story happening in the world right now is Mike Daisey.
— Silagh · Wed, Mar 21 2012 13:14:39

@chrislhayes Daisey did not create value. he lied AND WORSE he was simply wrong on the facts of labor abuses in China.
— Adam Smith · Wed, Mar 21 2012 12:25:36

Thanks. RT @chrislhayes: "But it’s also worth asking how to preserve and replicate the value of what Daisey did." http://is.gd/PdCBvw
— David Roberts · Wed, Mar 21 2012 12:13:29

RT @chrislhayes: "But it’s also worth asking how to preserve and replicate the value of what Daisey did." http://grist.org/media/mike-daisey-climate-and-greater-truths/
— dolores Flounlacker · Wed, Mar 21 2012 12:20:01

@chrislhayes Belittling hard working journalists, Daisey created an outrage spectacular.We have enough emotion based reality in our society.
— BJ Schwartz · Wed, Mar 21 2012 12:20:37

RT @WesHopper: .@chrislhayes Grist gets it right in the end "We need storytellers who can give the FACTS meaning" Don't need lies. http://grist.org/media/mike-daisey-climate-and-greater-truths/”
— Christopher Hayes · Wed, Mar 21 2012 13:36:11

An acclaimed Apple critic made up the details | Marketplace from American Public Media

The monologist Mike Daisey’s account of Chinese factory conditions in “The Agony and Ecstasy of Steve Jobs” made people think differently...

The Conning of ‘This American Life’ Leads to an Embarrassing Retraction

Mike Daisey is a heavyset man with a soothing voice, a trait that happens to benefit him in his line of work. Daisey is a monologist-he c...

Retraction | This American Life

We've discovered that one of our most popular episodes contained numerous fabrications. This week, we detail the errors in Mike Daisey's ...

Lies « BuzzMachine

You need not take a journalist's oath to tell the truth. You need only be born to a mother such as mine, who told me and my sister often-...

New York Times edits article by Mike Daisey it posted just after Steve Jobs’ death due to fabrications | Networld Interactive

The New York Times has edited an article by now-suspect monologuist and performer Mike Daisey to reflect that questions have been raised...

Foxconn’s Woo Says Truth Prevails After Retraction

(Corrects story published March 17 to clarify that NPR doesn't produce program involved.) Foxconn Technology Group, Apple Inc.'s largest ...

By the Numbers: Life and Death at Foxconn - ProPublica

March 16: This article has been updated and corrected. Update: On March 16, This American Life retracted an episode about Apple and Foxco...

Mike Daisey's betrayal of This American Life's truth – and my trust

I know journalism is a narrative art and some say mere facts should serve a 'higher truth'. Another name for that is lying There are lies...

Theater, Disguised Up as Real Journalism

It's worth examining that question now that we have learned about the lies perforating the excerpt of Mike Daisey's one-man show on 's ma...

The Sad and Infuriating Mike Daisey Case

James Fallows - James Fallows is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and has written for the magazine since the late 1970s. He has ...

I knew #Daisey wasn't to be trusted, comedic actors and performers are rarely good at investigative journalism. #npr #apple #foxconn
— incumbent · Fri, Mar 16 2012 12:15:36

The Real Story Is Everywhere In China Where They're Not Making Apple Stuff

A group of protestors from SACOM (Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour) demonstrate outside the Foxconn annual general me...

Journalistic Integrity

I am appalled. Absolutely appalled. I've just listened to the retraction issued by This American Life in relation to the Mike Daisey stor...

Pulling the plug on Mike Daisey: When entertainment meets journalism

The fracas Friday involving monologuist Mike Daisey and the public radio show "This American Life" is not just the latest scandal of a pu...