In most cases, the audience wasn’t asking about money: they were asking about time. When David explained that each of the Holocaust Museum’s myriad comment boards, blogs, and online forums is moderated by a staff member, the audience turned a little green. and museums. provided the Web 2.0 Absolutely. ventures. The time cost of Web 2.0

One of the primary fears museum professionals (and all professionals) have about entering new relationships with audiences is the fear of losing control. I have a lot of conversations with people that go like this: Other person: "So, you think that museums should let visitors control the museum experience?" Me: "Sort of." Me: "No."

I'm coming to Minnesota at the end of the month to give a keynote at Message+Medium+Mission Conference , nonprofit tech conference co-sponsored by the good folks at the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits and MAP for Nonprofits. If you are planning on attending, I look forward to meeting you. You can register here.

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When I was in Minnesota, one of the questions I got was about blogging and social networking policies. also a way of connecting to the bigger conversation and reaching out to new audiences. Respect your audience and don???t mentioned a link from IBM via Elsua (Luis Suarez). Carmen left me a follow up comment. friends??? But no.)

Elana Wolowitz (EW): Im pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008. was looking for ways to be accessible to our constituents, grow our audience, and virally promote our content, so Twitter seemed like the way to go. Right now, were using it to grow the audience of people that are involved and help create that amorphous "buzz".

We start out with an audience of 230 million potential visitors, 100% of the country (the Ad Planner currently only works in America. Unfortunately, there’s no state level targeting yet - we could cut out states that don’t require pre-registration to vote, like Wisconsin and Minnesota. It’s okay - I can wait…).

On Saturday, Bryan Kennedy (Science Museum of Minnesota), Jim Spadaccini (Ideum), Kevin Von Appen (Ontario Science Centre), and I will be reprising our annual Web 2.0 We'll ask for additional questions from the audience then use an applause-o-meter to select the questions of greatest interest, which we will discuss. session. I'm there.

At the Minnesota Nonprofits and Technology Conference , someone from the audience asked me about good resources for parents (and teens) about Web2.0 safety issues and what parents should know about their children's media use. In terms of web 2.0 safety resources, I mentioned Larry Magid's site, Connect Safely.

MN150 is a newish permanent exhibition (opened in Oct 2007) at the Minnesota History Center that marks the sesquicentennial of Minnesota with 150 of “the most influential forces in the state’s history.” Well, we knew we wanted to do an exhibit to mark the sesquicentennial (150th anniversary of the birth of the state of Minnesota).