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Want to Get Your Content Out There? Put it on Wikipedia.

Museum 2.0

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. Over the past few years, they've worked hard to make their rich content more accessible both through digitization and programs. The people who want that content may not be in the same city as the museum nor even aware of the museum's holdings.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

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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Treat Your Website Project Like an Investment Rather than an Expense

Tech Soup

When technology systems like donor and membership management, email marketing, and website content management are selected without cross-department communication, they won't integrate. Keeping content (like event descriptions) consistent across systems. Invest in Open Source. This causes struggles big and small, such as.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. I was fascinated by our discussion, and Bob came to mind last month, when I was asked to write an article for the Association of Children's Museums quarterly journal, Hand to Hand , about children's museums and Web 2.0.

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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. These virtual libraries are meant to support different aspects of student learning, making the aggregate and perhaps distributed content of a physical library more accessible. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites.

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Content Comfort: Bodyworlds and Other Exhibits with Guts

Museum 2.0

What do we do with content that is controversional and, potentially, uncomfortable? Like other museums that have hosted Bodyworlds and its sequels, the exhibit has doubled overall museum attendance for 2007--and it's only been here for three months. According to Wikipedia , 20 million people have viewed a Bodyworlds exhibition.

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

Museum 2.0

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. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. This multi-museum collaborative is undertaking a thoughtful process to tackle these issues.

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