Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 21, 2006

How can museums learn from it? Where do museums fit in? Many museums have a fascinating relationship with process exposure—lips sealed when it comes to their own final products, megaphones on when it comes to exposing the processes of others. Tags: web2.0 What’s appealing about this, and what’s prurient?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 9, 2007

Last week, Elaine Gurian and I talked about radical change in museums. Former museum start-up queen, Jen is taking a small organization whose goal is to promote girls’ involvement in math and science through research and programming to new, innovative, exciting places. But my background is in museum startups.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This question is a byproduct of the reality that most participatory projects have poorly articulated value. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out design Unusual Projects and Influences usercontent. What should we do with their post-its and stories and drawings and poems? What's the "use" of visitors' comments?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Before the session, I spent some time reviewing Museum Facebook Pages – luckily the MIDEA project has them organized into this handy list. I had hoped to find a good example of a museum or an arts organization with a custom landing tab. Aliza Sherman's "Birth of A Superfan" as it applies to Facebook and Museums.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2010

to better articulate what you are really trying to do with your project concept. It also helped me identify people I should be spending more time with in the short term (and it made me think of you, Museum 2.0 Tags: business models. readers, who I see as potential co-conspirators). Finally, we looked at assets.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 22, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments, or on the Museum 2.0 It was by articulating it that Oldenberg allowed a common platform of understanding through which others could develop, debate and refine these concepts. Tags: Book Discussion: The Great Good Place. Facebook discussion board here.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 6, 2008

On June 4, we opened The Tech Virtual Test Zone , a new 2000 sq ft gallery at The Tech Museum of Innovation featuring exhibits on the theme of art, film, and music that were originally developed in Second Life by a community of creative amateurs. Some museum pros have been puzzled by this. or to start their own.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 2, 2008

They want articulated goals and expectations. In the case of Minnesota History Museum's user-generated exhibition MN150 , sharpening the criteria (and tightening the language) for user submissions made for both better user-created content and easier decisions by the staff on what to include in the final project.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 28, 2010

Diane is both visionary and no-nonsense about deconstructing the barriers that many low-income and non-white teenagers and families face when entering a museum. Most large American museums are reflections of white culture. Louis homeless shelters to introduce them to the local museums. Why can't new visitors do the same?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 27, 2008

How is a museum like a radio station? It’s called Pandora , and its successes reveal interesting lessons about aggregating museum content. Instead, it uses hundreds of tags, signifiers assigned to each song by a team of musicians, to find correlated songs that may be of interest. For each song, I could click a “Why?”

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 22, 2008

There are lots of things visitors can’t do in museums. But what about the things that museum professionals can’t (or feel they can’t) do? This week at the ASTC conference, Kathy McLean, Tom Rockwell, Eric Siegel and I presented a session called “You Can’t Do That in Museums!” And so my question is, why are we keeping them away?

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 6, 2009

Several of the projects I'm working on these days relate to the concept of "extending the museum experience." And so when it comes to designing online extensions to the museum experience, we need to apply a different set of expectations from those we use to design onsite experiences. But most online experiences are not linear.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 15, 2008

Radiolab does what I hope all great museum exhibitions can do--take a deep topic and make it compelling on many levels. They articulate the basic questions and knee-jerk reactions in our own minds, carrying us deep into the content from a common starting place. Which brings me to museums and how we present content.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Every museum has a number for its operating cost per visitor. Most museums don't strategically set this number--too many operating costs are fixed by building needs--but they can use it to assess how expensive each visitor interaction is and evaluate the efficacy of programs. So where do online initiatives fit in?

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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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