Museum 2.0

APRIL 1, 2009

On Monday, I gave the keynote at the Museums in Conversation conference in Tarrytown, NY. Greed, because creative greediness motivates us to hunt down and steal the best design techniques the world has to offer, and generosity, because giving those great ideas and applications away is the only way to change the larger cultural landscape.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

speak, it's a web application that combines data from more than one source to create a new tool. One fun example is overplot , a mashup that takes quotes overheard in New York City ( the data ) and places them on a Google map (the tool), so you can browse the quotations by address. tensions, it's mostly a question of control.

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Mashup Marketing New York City Museum 20

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 21, 2006

It was a practical decision; I write poems from different locations and different computers, and a googlepages site seemed the easiest way to keep them all in one place, easily retrievable from anywhere. How can museums learn from it? Where do museums fit in? What’s appealing about this, and what’s prurient?

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Museum Artist Columbus Process 20

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

In 2005, I visited COSI Columbus. They're visually muddled, and even when you do get the information, job titles are often confusing at best; at my museum, the woman who maintains the artifacts is called the "Collections Manager." Org charts are not just about putting people in their place. Who's an excel maven?

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