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Join us for Museum Camp 2014 on Social Impact Assessment

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They are hinted at in fundraising letters. These are the questions that underpin Museum Camp 2014 , a professional development experience in which diverse people from the arts, community activism, and social services will measure the immeasurable together. They are stewing in our guts when we wake up to get to work.

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Data in the Museum: Experimenting on People or Improving Their Experience?

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Every few months, a major news outlet does an "expose" about data collection on museum visitors. These articles tend to portray museums as Big Brother, aggressively tracking visitors'' actions and interests across their visit. Facebook is a completely socially-engineered environment. We''re trying to personalize.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. "It is important to recongize that these are complex learning environments and information systems.

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Preservation in Action: Ambition and Excitement at Zealandia

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And yet earlier in the week, at the Zealandia nature sanctuary in Wellington, I’d seen some hints of how to do just that. I hope that I will one day walk into an archive or history museum and feel the same sense of urgency, purpose, and progress that I felt at Zealandia.

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Visitor Voices Book Club: Talking Back

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This week, we're looking at the first section, Talking Back and Talking Together , which features comment boards, talk-back walls, and discussion forums at a variety of museums. Rather than rehash each of the projects (hint: read the book!), I'm offering a bit of analysis through the lessons I learned from this section.

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