Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. A Dutch friend volunteered to go snap the library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold. While that in itself probably qualifies us as one of India's largest children's book publishers, when compared to the scale of the problem - over 300 million children in India - it is still a minuscule effort. Since then, we have published and shipped over 8.5

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India Strategy Skype Remix 99

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Today, the Luce Center at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is launching what they claim is the first ever alternate reality game (ARG) in a museum. Ghosts of a Chance is a great example of the museum leveraging a niche community (ARG-ers) to energize and provide seed content for participants who are new to participatory gaming.

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Game Museum Arts Alternative 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What are the essential differences and similarities between libraries and museums?

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