http://www.alyssagardina.com/taxonomy/term/34/0 en http://www.alyssagardina.com/blog/agardina/museums-twitter-girl-power-edition <p class="MsoNormal"><span>I'll be the first to admit it. <a href="http://www.twitter.com/agardina">I love Twitter.</a> I’ve been able to connect with so many people, organizations and companies in the past year - it's incredible! That being said, something awesome happened on Twitter yesterday. <a href="http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23women2follow">#Women2Follow</a>, a hashtag that's the brainchild of <a href="http://twitter.com/womenwhotech">@WomenWhoTech</a>, had a <a href="http://twitter.com/cjn212">few of us</a> focusing on museums with women directors (thanks, <a href="http://twitter.com/cjn212">@cjn212</a>!). The geneder imbalance in leadership positions at museums is <a href="http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/gender.cfm">well</a>-<a href="https://beardocs.baylor.edu/bitstream/2104/5046/1/Meghan_Beverung_masters.pdf">documented</a>, so we felt it was important to shed light on the museums who are not only led by women, but who are taking a technological leap and getting involved in social media.</span></p> <p> Here’s the list that we got of museums on Twitter that are headed up by women directors, CEOs, and presidents. Did I miss one? Let me know in the comments!</p> <ul type="disc"> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>The Women’s Museum (<a href="http://twitter.com/thewomensmuseum">@thewomensmuseum</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Metropolitan Museum of Art (<a href="http://twitter.com/metmuseum">@metmuseum</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>American Museum of Natural History (<a href="http://twitter.com/atAMNH">@atAMNH</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>New Museum (<a href="http://twitter.com/newmuseum">@newmuseum</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Brooklyn Historical Society (<a href="http://twitter.com/brooklynhistory">@brooklynhistory</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Dallas Museum of Art (<a href="http://twitter.com/DallasMuseumArt">@dallasmuseumart</a>)<br /></span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Nasher Museum of Art (<a href="http://twitter.com/NasherGirl">@NasherGirl</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Kemper Art Museum (<a href="http://twitter.com/kemperartmuseum">@kemperartmuseum</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Seaport Museum NYC (<a href="http://twitter.com/wavertreewire">@wavertreewire</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Asia Society Museum (<a href="http://twitter.com/asiasociety">@asiasociety</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Museum of the City of NY (<a href="http://twitter.com/museumofcityny">@museumofcityny</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Magnes Museum (<a href="http://twitter.com/magnes">@magnes</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Tacoma Art Museum (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/tacomaartmuseum">@tacomaartmuseum</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Miami Science Museum (<a href="http://twitter.com/miasci">@miasci</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>MOCA North Miami (<a href="http://twitter.com/mocanomi">@mocanomi</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Frost Art Museum (<a href="http://twitter.com/frostartmuseum">@frostartmuseum</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Minneapolis Institute of Arts (<a href="http://twitter.com/artsmia">@artsmia</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Walker Art Center (<a href="http://twitter.com/walkerartcenter">@walkerartcenter</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Tree Museum (<a href="http://twitter.com/TREE_MUSEUM">@tree_museum</a>)</span></li> <li class="MsoNormal"><span>Houston Center for Contemporary Craft (<a href="http://twitter.com/CraftHouston">@crafthouston</a>)</span></li> </ul> <p>More! (Added 8/19/09, thanks to <a href="http://www.twitter.com/cjn212">@CJN212</a>)</p> <ul> <li>Cleveland Museum of Art (<a href="http://www.twitter.com/clevelandart">@ClevelandArt</a>)</li> <li>Weeksville Heritage Center (<a href="http://twitter.com/Weeksville">@Weeksville</a>)</li> <li>Museum of Florida Art (<a href="http://twitter.com/MuseumofFLArt">@MuseumofFLArt</a>)</li> <li><span class="bio">Shiloh Museum of Ozark History (<a href="http://twitter.com/ShilohMuseum">@ShilohMuseum</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="bio">Rogers Museum (<a href="http://twitter.com/RogersMuseum">@RogersMuseum</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="bio">Skyscraper Museum (<a href="http://twitter.com/SkyMuseum">@SkyMuseum</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="bio">Museum of Arts and Design (<a href="http://twitter.com/MADMuseum">@MADMuseum</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="bio">White River Valley Museum &amp; Mary Olson Farm (<a href="http://twitter.com/wrvmuseum">@wrvmuseum</a>)</span></li> <li><span class="bio">Log Cabin Village (<a href="http://twitter.com/logcabinvillage">@logcabinvillage</a>)<br /></span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p> </p> http://www.alyssagardina.com/blog/agardina/museums-twitter-girl-power-edition#comments CEOs directors history leadership museums social media twitter women Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:53:50 +0000 agardina 17 at http://www.alyssagardina.com