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Museum Collections and Tagging

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Source: Powerhouse Museum. Powerhouse Museum Electronic Fabric Swatch Book is a really cool project and an example of using a folksonomy as a way to address the reality that Museums often use subject categorizations that don't reflect the terms most people use when searching online. think flickr and del.icio.us ???

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Tagging in an Art Museum Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community.

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Guest Post by Debra Askanase: Fill the Gap Campaign Crowdsourcing for Citizen Museum Curators

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Photo by American Art Museum Note from Beth: This week I'm trying to understand crowdsourcing and nonprofits, hopefully with a crowd of other folks. It is an open study/storage facility displaying about thirty-three hundred objects from the collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. We are storage, after all.

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RIP: del.icio.us

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My early days in social media were spent immersed in tagging and social bookmarking. Marnie Webb introduced me to the NpTech Tag and a whole nonprofit tech community embraced it. My first screencast was about tagging and featured the social bookmarking service, delicious. Here’s the description.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? public information???

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Collaborative Storytelling and Open Source Interviews

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I was planning to write a post today about the use of story in museums. A lot of museums--and web, radio, etc--are pursuing projects in which visitors share their personal stories around a topic, whether that be broad and profound ( storycorps.net ) or light and specific ( map mashup of Overheard in NY ). Tags: storytelling.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: May 27

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Tag your own news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome online, or contact Annaliese with your updates.) . Hear from the co-founder of Foursquare plus the Technology Director of the Brooklyn Museum! Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members. NTEN is People! Members are in bold.

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