Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2007

The Tech Virtual is a project that allows people to conceptualize and prototype exhibits online. The online platform has two parts: a website , where all projects originate, and a Second Life presence ("The Tech" in Second Life), where participants can communicate in real-time, share ideas, and build virtual prototypes.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Despite this, less than half (48%) of the 187 charities that were surveyed as part of nfpSynergy’s Virtual Promise (2008) report said that their organization used social networking websites. Tags: otherblogs reports data engagement facebook nfpsynergy research socialmedia ssir uk. What It Means.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 18, 2008

This week marks one month of live activity for the Tech Virtual Museum Workshop , a collaborative, online platform for exhibit development. What's it like to work in a virtual exhibit workshop? I've been working for The Tech on this project since November of 2007, and it has been an intense and exciting three months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2007

Comparing current tools in use or consideration to expectations for 2008, the following show an expected increase in interest in: Podcasts, Video blogs, Mobile video/image/text submission, Citizen Journalism, Micro-Blogging, and Virtual Worlds. 35 percent reported positive ROI and 41 percent said that ROI was ???unknown.??? unknown.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

We met face-t0-face at a social media event in 2008, but that was the only time I had interacted her face-to-face. Fine notes that she thought this would be an easy part of the book to write – all she’d have to do is find people working to make the board room virtual, opening up decisionmaking to outside influences.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Many of these organizations continue to see 2X to 3X the daily traffic of average days in 2008. (A Email and direct mail from nonprofits have virtually the same influence on consumers' decisions to give at 27% and 28% respectively -- email closed a 10% gap from 2008 to 2009.1. To get your invitation visit [link].).

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

NIH does this to allow teens a way to get credible information from a trusted third party - and NIH gets some great intelligence about what is on the minds of teens (eg in 2009 twice as many marijuana questions as in 2008.). s three-stage view of how to conduct public engagement online, which includes: Virtual town squares, ie idea jams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. My Barack Obama leverage some aspects of Collective Intelligence during the 2008 presidential campaign. Tags: ROI. What About You? Do share your thoughts.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In 2008, the event netted about $18,000. On the web site, users enter their name and e-mail address, and that data is immediately written on a virtual care package of health-care supplies that will be sent to a needy community overseas. Tags: Community NPTech NTEN Fundraising. The cocktail party had an auction and a raffle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

Conference Tag: CU08 ConnectingUp Conference Warning: I am live blogging these notes as the conference unfolds. Doug mentioned attending the NTC/NTEN conference in New Orleans and had RSS and Tagging ringing in his ears. What would ngos look like if they were completely virtual? More Flickr Photos here. Good or bad thing?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

In the case of The Tech Virtual , as in some collaborative and co-creative science research projects, the core group of super-participants was self-defined based on personal inclination, which made them more effective than a group pre-selected by staff may have been. Tags: evaluation Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

Petri IT Knowledge Base, an excellent IT resource from Microsoft MVP in Israel, posted a plain-English post on Windows 2008 licensing concerns when using Hyper-V technology. Definitely bookmark-worthy if you are planning on virtualizing in the near future using this technology.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

There was a study published earlier this month by Neilson Research about the astronomical growth of social networks from Dec 2007 to Dec 2008. And they don't just meet virtually. Tags: Core Museum 2.0 There are people using the social Web to organize protests, discuss deep issues, and build lasting relationships. Ideas design.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 21, 2010

Over the past five years, there have been some technologies that came and went (virtual worlds) and others that seem to be permanently on the five year horizon because geeks really like them (semantic web, internet of things). Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out Quick Hits.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 12, 2009

We announced 1stfans on December 5, 2008, and since then have had 272 1stfans from 15 states and 9 countries on 4 continents. There are both virtual-only and local 1stfan members. Tags: marketing Museums Engaging in 2.0 What's the balance between them, and how do you do this triangulation with both kinds?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

Not that I won’t still occasionally write about games, but they will no longer have a weekly presence on this blog ( though you can always find lots of them by clicking the "game" tag in the topic list to the right). Those exhibits will be prototyped, discussed, and explored by visitors in virtual form in Second Life. Why the change?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 10, 2009

When I wrote about this in 2008, I focused on the question of how to design exhibits to be optimized for "pointiness." As she moves through the museum, she uses a web-based application to tag her favorite exhibits, or perhaps she texts a rating for each exhibit to SMS short codes posted at the bottom of each label.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 11, 2008

The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery. How wonderful would it be to create an experience that would take players across the entire Institution (physical and virtual) in search of clues?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

Virtual Worlds The Horizon Project wiki, which explores virtual worlds in education, has been nominated for Best Educational Wiki 2007 - vote here. Then do the next best thing, take a virtual trip to Bali. If you participate in Give One Get One today, you will receive your XO laptop(s) in early 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

It was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008 and has been used for many other projects, including tracking disaster relief efforts in Haiti. Tags: Networks mobile. More recently, the London Tube used it to track disruptions from the Tube strike.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

We saw the power of social media in Obama’s 2008 landslide victory. In 2008, we had the Tennessee coal ash spill , which was billed as “the largest environmental disaster of its kind in the United States.&# Tags: Guest Post mobile. All the while identifying foods based on our particular diet or sensibility.

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