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Avoiding the Participatory Ghetto: Are Museums Evolving with their Innovative Web Strategies?

Museum 2.0

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, international people doing radical projects to make museum collections and experiences accessible and participatory online. Where are the friendly, open, participatory experiences you came for?

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Quick Hit: Upcoming Experiments and Workshops

Museum 2.0

I hope you will join me for… StrangeMuse Experiment—this Sunday, April 5. You can participate in this experiment from anywhere in the world (I’ll be in Seattle at the zoo with a group of grad students). Virtual-to-real design workshop at Museums and the Web—Friday, April 17 in Indianapolis.

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Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click.

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Mixing Digital and Physical: The Holocaust Museum's Handwritten Pledge Wall

Museum 2.0

I've seen several museums experimenting with inviting visitors to take action, make promises, and join communities of intentionality (here's a post with examples from 2007 ), and the USHMM effort is particularly compelling for some specific design choices made in the development of the pledge wall. That's not to say it's perfect.

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Does Your Museum Need its Own Social Network? Case Study and Discussion

Museum 2.0

Many museums have been experimenting in these spaces by creating institutional profiles, museum affinity groups, and connecting with visitors and other museum professionals individually. But for some institutions or projects, being under a big tent that includes millions of people, groups, and activities is not appropriate.

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