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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the mostsecond only to the Louvre in that category
globally. But the Met wanted to reach a much
larger audience, creating digital engagement
with people who might never visit the museum
in person. To that end, in August 2013, it hired
its first Chief Digital Officer, or CDO, Sree
Sreenivasan, who has helped the museum
expand its hushed galleries and dazzling
collection into cyberspace. (In August 2016, he
took on a new set of challenges when he was
named Chief Digital Officer of New York City,

"

We want to make
the digital
experience so good
that those who see
us online want to
come to the
physical museum.

"

visited art museum in the United States and

or NYC.gov.)
Before joining the Met, Sree held the CDO
position at Columbia University, where he also
served as the dean of student affairs and a
professor of digital journalism at Columbia's
Graduate School of Journalism. He is a
prolific commentator on things digital and
has frequently been mentioned on lists of
noteworthy digerati, including the Poynter
Institute's "35 most influential people in social
media," AdAge's "top 25 media people to
follow on Twitter," and the Huffington Post's

You speak about the future of
business depending on "blurring the
lines between in-person and online."
Are most businesses aware of this?
I think they increasingly are. They know that

"50 media people to follow on Facebook."

it's no longer enough to do good or even great

Born in Tokyo and raised in, among other

work; you have to get the word out about what

places, Bhutan, the former Soviet Union,

you do. There are lots of opportunities to bring

and Fiji, he received his B.A. in history from

this connection together, but they have to work

St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and a M.S. in

to make it happen. In a place like the museum,

journalism from Columbia. The following is an

we already have a physical space, and in trying

edited transcript of Sree's phone conversation
with Straight Talk Contributing Writer Ariella
Brown, conducted while he was still CDO
at the Met.

to connect to the larger world, we need to
establish our digital presence. The plan is to
have the two feed off each other. We want to
make the digital experience so good that those
who see us online want to come to the physical
museum, and we want to make the in-person
experience so good that visitors seek to extend
the connection in digital channels. In general,

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