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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2007

He made this point: But, participatory culture is changing the nature and topology of ours. And it's not just that we can build Wikipedia or Flickr streams. An outline of what he said is here. It's ours in a different way. We can create works with strangers, with anonymous crowds, and in all the other ways we're inventing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. It is an idea closely tied with the term user-generated content and creative commons licensing. Here's how the Creative Commons licenses work.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

If museum and library content is licensed, not owned, how can we work within those licenses to allow visitors to use and remix to their heart’s content? The most upsetting moment of the meeting for me was when some participants expressed a willful disregard and derision for participatory scholarship on sites like Wikipedia.

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