Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

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. Developers of the ECHO project are exploring new ways to use web technology to bring native voices into museum exhibits and research.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

Some of the most interesting questions included: how do you verify the accuracy and authenticity of visitor-contributed content? The room was suddenly and incredibly buzzing with hundreds of voices, hundreds of people giving each other ideas. We need more conference session formats that emphasize interpersonal exchange.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Last week, we looked at the first section of Visitor Voices , on Talk-backs, and came to the conclusion that comment boards and the like are functionally conversations, and that their design, therefore, should focus on encouraging positive, lively, thoughtful, engaged discussion. The content was serious, important, and deeply cared for.

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Media Cause

JUNE 16, 2022

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. While we may grudgingly acknowledge the fact that visitors create their own versions of the message around subsets of the content, we don't consciously empower visitors to redistribute their own substandard, non-authoritative messages. Content expertise matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

experiment with an idea (meme or concept) that helps best define “giving” in the voice of your constituency. Some key themes: the need to focus on measurement for impact. share information and tools, earlier and more easily. celebrate and showcase the “de-centralized” successes in your community. You read a transcript of the tweets here.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2008

This is true whether you are talking about marketing text or exhibit content. Many museums have jumped into the middle level—producing their own content—without starting with commenting. The other problem with starting in the middle is that it takes more time and effort to create and manage your own content than to comment on others'.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

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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Everyaction

AUGUST 20, 2018

We recently sat down with Becka Wall, a Social Media Strategist at Individual Project and former Assistant Director of Digital Content Strategy at NARAL Pro-Choice America, to talk about the basics of running social media for an organization or campaign. How do you define that voice differently across different platforms?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

For hundreds of years, we've owned the content and the message. While we may grudgingly acknowledge the fact that visitors create their own versions of the message around subsets of the content, we don't consciously empower visitors to redistribute their own substandard, non-authoritative messages. Content expertise matters.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

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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Museum 2.0

JULY 17, 2008

But there are other times when the message isn't simple, and in those cases, visitor voices can help strategically shape multi-dimensional exhibitions. It can be uncomfortable or downright limiting to declare yourself and your single voice the authority on a complex or multi-faceted topic. How did this project get started?

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