Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields. All the designers will only give me plastic trees." Consider other family-oriented products: toys, media, schools.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

have established viability in two ways—via designed experiences (exhibits, programs, courses) and access to assets (artifacts, books). Regardless of how museums and libraries portray themselves, it’s clear to users: Wikipedia belongs to them. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The design was to share this learning was amazing. ” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia has become one of the top ten most-visited websites worldwide and is the only one in the top ten that is a non-profit initiative. So when do wikis work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I personally want to move away from the metaphor of making movies of the computer screen to more shoulder-to-shoulder instructional media and perhaps something that is more participatory or for lack of a better word, social. For a more detailed definition of tags, see the Wikipedia entry here. Maybe it is more like moment capture.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2009

It’s common to have low expectations with regard to the number of people who will create content in participatory platforms (online media-sharing sites, contributory projects, story-sharing exhibits). And yet ironically, we spend most of our time with participatory projects accentuating how open they are. 1% is a pretty exclusive club.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The most upsetting moment of the meeting for me was when some participants expressed a willful disregard and derision for participatory scholarship on sites like Wikipedia. Some libraries are moving towards the museum model—creating heavily designed spaces, complementing information assets with increasingly sophisticated exhibits.

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