Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

Rather than starting your own blog or YouTube channel, find the sources out there that relate to your topics of interest and respond to them. Let me give you an example. Unlike the "related videos" list, which is aggregated automatically by YouTube, video responses are self-assigned by their creator. Where should you start?

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JULY 2, 2009

There are many lovely example of museums providing quirky tours based on particular interests. For example, The Tate Modern offers a set of pamphlets featuring different tours of the museum based on emotional mood. For example, Librarything, a social network for sharing books, has a "books you'll hate" feature called the Unsuggester.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2008

And when I think back on the last year and how it compared to year one of blogging, the shining difference is you--your interest, your comments, and most of all, your extraordinary example. blog in 2006 as a personal learning exercise about "the ways that museums do and can evolve from 1.0 I started the Museum 2.0

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JUNE 10, 2010

While there, I was lucky to get to experience a highly participatory exhibition that the MIA mounts once a decade: Foot in the Door. I also think it would be useful for the MIA to aggregate blog posts, Flickr photos, etc. Tags: exhibition design participatory museum usercontent.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation. This post provides a tangible example for the why behind that argument. At level three, the visitor is polled about the issue and sees her result compared to the cumulative aggregate.

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MARCH 22, 2007

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. For example, in Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives, knowledge and comprehension of content comes before application. Was this the right decision? X-Men) and artists.

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AUGUST 18, 2008

This month brings three examples of museums hosting meetups for online communities: On 8.6.08, the Computer History Museum (Silicon Valley, CA) hosted a Yelp! This positions the museum at the center of the action, gives you an easy way to track online activity, and provides a useful service for participants to aggregate their content.

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OCTOBER 7, 2009

The Science Buzz blog , which is managed by a team of exhibit developers, science writers, and floor staff at the Science Museum of Minnesota, is a good example of diversified community management that models the inclusion of a range of voices and opinions. Projects participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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JUNE 15, 2009

Some of the advice was incredibly specific; for example, one person wrote a post-it that asked, "should my 17 year old who is going to college in the fall have a curfew this summer?" For example, one person recommended "grappa and Bessie Smith records" as a cure for a broken heart, to which another responded, "Who's Bessie Smith?"

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. My second example is more personal and slightly embarrassing. Do these examples mean you should never use wikis? Here are two cases with related examples.

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