Social media awards Due the advancement of new technologies and the Web 2.0, specific organizations have appeared to recognize and reward the excellence of the internet, such as best content, best social media strategies, etc. We can mention the Webby awards, the Shorty awards and the TripAdvisor Travelers’ Choice awards. Museums have had an enormous presence in these sites and have even been winners of these awards. The Webby awards were established by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Science in 1996. Is the oldest organization in reward the best on Internet, it focuses on several categories such as art, best web practices, mobile sites and apps, etc. In 2015 the Metropolitan Museum of Art won the best photography and graphics on social media, Instagram. In 2016 Los Angeles County Museum of Art won a Webby Award for its strategy on Snapchat. This year 2017, the Metropolitan Museum of Art once again won the award. (The Webby awards website). …show more content…
In 2016 the Museum Nerd won the prize for using Social Media to act as the bridge between the museum and the outside world. Some of the finalist on this category were the J. Paul Getty Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum. (The Shorty awards website). In October 2017, the Tripadvisor site published a list of the twenty-five best museums in the world, according to the information collected in the Travelers’ Choice awards of museums, where its users voted for their favorite art venues according to their experience. Here we have the top 10 museums in the world (Tripadvisor