Museum 2.0

MAY 9, 2007

In January, I interviewed Sibley about the potential use of virtual worlds and Second Life by museums, but in the four months since then, the virtual world platform--and the hype around it--has exploded. It seems that Second Life is both the closest and farthest thing from many museum professionals' minds. Collaborative Experience.

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Second Life Museum Life Virtual 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 16, 2007

I have a friend with a GPS-enabled running watch that tracks his path, and then shows a little animation of an avatar representing him on his last run to "race" the same trail. How could museums be part of this? There are lots of science museums with exhibits that provide simulations of exactly these phenomena.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 14, 2009

I've become convinced that successful paths to participation in museums start with self-identification. The easiest way to do that is to acknowledge their uniqueness and validate their ability to connect with the museum on their own terms. Who is the "me" in the museum experience? Not so at museums.

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Museum Personal Experiment Profile 20

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. Even if you are set in your browsing ways with IE or Firefox, Google Chrome only takes of few minutes of your time to download and experience.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Here's a problem many museums would like to solve: How do you design an intuitive way to give visitors unique IDs so that visitors can receive personalized content and feedback and institutions can receive real-time data tracking on visitor behavior? It's not a new problem. Define the core technology that aligns to your mission.

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Personal Program Museum Project 24

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Every time a colleague tells me her museum has just hired a "community person," a part of me cringes. The project was a chaotic experiment in several ways, and because things kept changing, the community had to keep relying on me as their sole source of information about how things would move forward. This is a problem.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Ideal for mobile social media managers, VoiceTexter is an iPhone app that instantly transcribes your voice messages. A website that allows you to create an image with a mosaic of your Twitter Followers’ avatars. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme. Learn more at: petitions.whitehouse.gov. Vizify :: vizify.com.

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