Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2005

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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2008

I recently was forwarded a post from David Duthie (of the UN Environment Program) that spotted a new application: truth in sushi labeling. Best wishes David Duthie Fish Tale Has DNA Hook - Students Find Bad Labels - NYTimes.com

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I often talk about the idea of taking social technology out of the Web and putting it into physical museums as part of our exhibitions and programs. In the world of museums, tagging is of great interest to people in the collections world. Traditional taxonomies may only cover a certain set of metadata about an object.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This week, we look at Chapter 5 of Elaine Gurian's book Civilizing Museums , Choosing Among the Options: An opinion about museum definitions in two parts. First published in Curator magazine in 2002, this essay presents five different museum "types" and their distinct opportunities and challenges.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. For internal web managers, tagging also improves accessibility for people who are blind by adding text descriptors to images so that site visitors understand the content of those images. The games on the website at my museum are old.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation. When I talk about the hierarchy, I use the theoretical construct of an issue-based museum exhibit. At level one, the museum preaches to visitors about the issue. with the issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

t be accessed from different locations or computers. (3) If you are skeptical, think about having 24/7 access to your co-workers, bosses or a subject matter expert???s re not creating a formal taxonomy, rather it???s Tagging in Art Museums. 2) Bookmarks can???t 3) Links can get lost in email. (4) Act 2: Definitions.

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