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Month at the Museum, Part 1: A Video Contest that Delivers

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On October 20, a young woman named Kate will move into Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry and live there for a month. This post is not about the Month at the Museum concept or implementation. Instead, this post focuses on a fascinating aspect of Month at the Museum: the video applications. That will come later.

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

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Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. Who's sharing authority and how? Their task is both especially important and challenging.

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Leading the Participant

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You will make history. It isn't until the last group when Starlee sees a young Reagan who decides against the invasion--and against history. Alissa told me: Again and again, our educators tell the students that there are no wrong answers here and that students have a different perspective given their place in history.

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How Much Time Does Web 2.0 Take?

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On Monday, David Klevan (from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) and I spoke at the MAAM Creating Exhibitions conference about Web 2.0 and museums. framework, and David shared lessons learned from the huge range of projects the Holocaust Museum has initiated. I provided the Web 2.0 in quotation marks and hit search.

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Six Steps to Making Risky Projects Possible

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Unsurprisingly, some of my favorite museums are small, funky places run by iconoclasts—but that’s not useful to most professionals who work for organizations in which they have little control over size or leadership matters. Many museums are making this shift as they hire “community managers” who communicate with users on an ongoing basis.

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Two Years Later

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Today, Museum 2.0 And when I think back on the last year and how it compared to year one of blogging, the shining difference is you--your interest, your comments, and most of all, your extraordinary example. I started the Museum 2.0 I started the Museum 2.0 and watched the Museum 2.0

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AAM Recap: Slides, Observations, and Object Fetishism

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I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created museum experiences, and the other on design inspirations from outside museums. what is the value of the exhibition experience to non-participants, that is, regular museum visitors?

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