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323 Articles match "Museum","Personal"
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
at the Brooklyn Museum, where you could track how people of various levels of art expertise rated crowd-contributed photographs. I've been thinking about this as I prep some interactive prototypes for the Experience Music Project and Science Fiction Museum, a Seattle-based museum of pop culture. There was Click!
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Monday, August 16, 2010
I spent last week in the glorious country of Taiwan, hiking, eating, and working with museum professionals and graduate students at a conference hosted at the Taiwan National Museum of Fine Arts. It's not topic-specific; I've done these exercises with art, history, science, and children's museums to useful effect.
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Sunday, August 8, 2010
We consider anything intended for public consumption to be “published,” so while our collection is very broad, we draw the line at correspondence or personal journals. Last month, I got a chance to talk with Nell Taylor, founder of the Chicago Underground Library. Nell will be responding to comments on this blog and can also be reached here.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Last week, I spoke with Jim Richardson, managing director of SUMO Design , about their very cool new project with the North East Regional Museums Hub : I like. museums. museums is a website on which visitors can search for museums in the North East region of England. It furthers the idea of museums as multi-use venues.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Let’s say you wanted to find a model museum using Web 2.0 place that does all this in the context of a fairly traditional collections-based museum. It’s the Brooklyn Museum. Tell me about the background for the Brooklyn Museum’s community web component. Museums Engaging in 2.0 to support programs and exhibits.
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
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?" Other person: "But doesn't that erode museums' authority?" If the museum isn't in control, how can it thrive? Museums should consider, as Web 2.0
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
The presumed answer is "yes" your museum needs a blog, a pony, or a set of comfy couches. Does your museum need a custom online social network? Most social networking sites give each user a unique user profile, along with a personal "home base" where you can always find your content, your contacts, and your interests. Maybe not.
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Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Dear Museums on Twitter, Thanks for experimenting in a new and largely uncharted online environment. So here is a list of suggestions that hopefully will improve the way your museum thinks about using Twitter. Or it's rainy so you suggest I visit the museum? am a museum of Native Cultures and Art!" But not enough of you.
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Tuesday, December 4, 2007
Last week, I received an inquiry from Mary Maher, editor of Hand to Hand, a magazine put out by the Association of Children's Museums , about Museum 2.0. Why, Mary asked, were there no posts about children's museums on this site? Why aren't children's museums represented on Museum 2.0? stuff naturally.
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Monday, October 26, 2009
Many institutions that are pursuing online/onsite experience connections have lighted on the personal webpage as THE way to deliver post-visit experiences. The personal webpage has many adherents, and some institutions, like The Tech Museum in San Jose, have been offering them for almost a decade. These pages often look barren.
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Friday, May 23, 2008
I've written before about three types of museum users: contributors, lurkers, and judges. The social media user types, like learning styles or gaming styles, are more like personality traits than exclusive groupings. What kinds of museum experiences could you imagine accommodating those aspects of your personality?
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Tuesday, February 5, 2008
former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. But the more I learned, the more I wondered where the real threat is, and why children's museums have been so resistant to change. in her book, Civilizing the Museum. don't.
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
As part of the article I’m working on for the journal Museums and Social Issues on using web 2.0 to promote civic discourse in museums, I’m developing an argument about the “hierarchy of social participation.” Voting, whether for American Idol, national elections, or museum kiosk surveys, falls in this category. Core Museum 2.0
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