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Peter Morville is A Woman in Second Life and Other IA Summit Secrets.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can see the back of my avatar in the green skirt, the male avatar is Josh Knauer , and my colleague, Susanne Nyrop from Denmark who we bumped into while wandering around Boracay Island. Anyway, there was a navigational interface that allowed us to project an environment and actually walk through it. Technorati Tags: iasummit2007

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Second Life and Communities of Practice Group Action Learning Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was amazing because the participants spanned the globe - literally - we had representatives from UK, Spain, Denmark, Asia, Austraila, and US. After the event please: Will you post pictures of your group to Flickr, use the tag: cp080207 so we can find each other's snaps (I've already posted one). Technorati Tags: VECoP

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Other institutions are idiosyncratic in their relationship to their environment, like the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, or to their community, like the Wing Luke Asian Museum. Tags: children's museums design business models. Some are scrappy and iconoclastic, like the City Museum in St.

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The Living Library: Using Our Institutions as New Models for Civic Dialogue

Museum 2.0

The Living Library was conceived in Denmark in 2000 as a way to engage youth in dialogue about ending violence by encouraging people to meet their prejudices and fears in a safe, fun, facilitated environment. Tags: participatory museum Unusual Projects and Influences. well, you know. Would you use the Living Library?

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Please Don't Send Me to My Personal Webpage

Museum 2.0

Yesterday, I visited the Experimentarium , a science center just north of Copenhagen in Denmark. This exhibition uses RFID tags to allow visitors to save their work throughout the space--something that many institutions have been experimenting with for almost ten years now. This makes for a very low-engagement post-visit experience.