Museum 2.0

JANUARY 4, 2010

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments.

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Wikipedia Arts Museum Images 40

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 15, 2009

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Why are teens over-represented in participatory projects? The first of these reasons is practical.

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Teen Participatory Experiment Museum 24

Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 Most of the content was (and is) user generated. Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor.

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Netsquared Wikipedia San Francisco Iraq 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The First C: Content. Taken together, these four themes constitute the value system of social media.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Being a trusted source of information can be a barrier that keeps us from sharing content with visitors that might be more contemporary, more ambiguous, more contentious--information that may not be trusted. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. In the Web 2.0

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Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

For example, in Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives, knowledge and comprehension of content comes before application. After all, you don’t have to have great content to get to a networked, social experience ( Twitter certainly proves that fact). Narratively, this makes sense. Surgeons act in order to make a diagnosis.’”

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Taxonomy Museum Social Wikipedia 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. All the designers will only give me plastic trees." Consider other family-oriented products: toys, media, schools.

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Classroom Children Museum Model 22