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Guest Post: A New Role for Science Museums--Playground for Scientists

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One of the greatest gifts of my babymoon is the opportunity to share the Museum 2.0 First up is Beck Tench, a "simplifier, illustrator, story teller, and technologist" working at the Museum of Life & Science in Durham, NC. As a person who works for a science museum, I work in an environment that supports play.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap.

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The Tech Virtual Museum Workshop launches today!

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This is not an analytical post (primarily); it's an announcement and invitation to join the new project I've been working on with The Tech Museum of Innovation in San Jose, CA. To be eligible for the prize, your exhibit must be on the theme of "Art, Film, Music & Technology." The meat is people coming together to design exhibits.

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Event Announcement: The Tech Virtual's First Exhibition opens June 4!

Museum 2.0

The exhibition I'm curating for The Tech Museum of Innovation is opening and we are hosting a summit on June 4 (in real life and in Second Life ) for museum professionals to discuss the process by which it was created. Can you really build eight interactive exhibits based on virtual prototypes in two months without going insane?

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Good Sharing v. Bad Sharing

Museum 2.0

There have now been a couple comments on this blog to the effect of: "Visitors already create content in museums through their thoughts and social interactions." Good sharing point 1: Encourage social interactions. The most immediate place to start sharing is with the people with whom you came to the museum. Great point.

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Two Tagging Projects that Make Sense

Museum 2.0

But over the last couple of months, I've learned about two tagging projects that actually get me excited-- CamClickr at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Posse at the Brooklyn Museum. When museums embark on collections-tagging projects, they are almost entirely focused on this secondary benefit. And that brings us to CamClickr.

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. A free, fun mobile photo-sharing iPhone App that turns your mobile photos instantly in art. Users simply take a photo with their iPhone and add special editing and art effects with one tap.

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