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Museum Collections and Tagging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Backwards Interview: My Advice for Incorporation of Web 2.0 into Museums

Museum 2.0

thinking or applications. James Yasko is writing an article for an upcoming issue of Museum News on museums and Web 2.0. Here's the question: What advice do you have, as one who keeps up with technology as it relates to museums, to a group looking to incorporate Web 2.0 technique/application that will fit those goals.

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