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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

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Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Sharing Authority.or

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

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We started with a brief presentation of the basics of each project, and then spent about an hour responding to questions from the audience, using illustrative images and documents to support the discussion. Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content?

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What's a Virtual Visitor Worth?

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Or is it worth more because the museum content is reaching people in distant lands who would otherwise never have engaged with the institution? Outreach Let’s say you run your museum's education department, and you have two vans that go out to schools to do in-classroom programs exposing students to museum content.

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Into the Deep End: What's Keeping Museums from Telling Meaty, In-Depth Stories?

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When we experience intense depth, as in the Minnesota History Center's Open House , which explores the stories of residents of one St. The narrative device was almost nil, and yet the content experience was better than I've had in most exhibitions. But tight doesn't have to mean limited.

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