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Sustaining Innovation (in Many Different Situations)

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Last week, I sat on the jury for the first Cultural Innovation International Prize given by the Center for Contemporary Culture in Barcelona , and this week, I'm offering a workshop for museum professionals across Poland participating together in a "Museum Lab" in Warsaw. The second post , in which Museum 2.0

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Visitor Voices Book Club Part 4: Starting to Listen

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This is the final installment of Museum 2.0’s s book club on Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , a collection of essays edited by Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean. The best visitor voices projects don’t come out of marketing blitzes or grudging concessions to visitors. They don’t have anything interesting to say.

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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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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 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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Visitor Voices Book Club: Loving the Love Tapes

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Last week, we looked at the first section of Visitor Voices , on Talk-backs, and came to the conclusion that comment boards and the like are functionally conversations, and that their design, therefore, should focus on encouraging positive, lively, thoughtful, engaged discussion. The accompaniment is a strange one.

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AAM 2010 Recap: Slides, Surprises, and a Banjo

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This year, the American Association of Museums annual conference was in Los Angeles (my hometown). I hosted two sessions, one on design for participation and the other on mission-driven museum technology development. He started with museums as a "place to go"--to see things, consume experiences. In this case, a heck of a lot.

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