Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

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. I thought this sounded great: better data, useful research. We''re trying to personalize.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

And yet earlier in the week, at the Zealandia nature sanctuary in Wellington, I’d seen some hints of how to do just that. There are interpretative trails and helpful staff to aid visitors in tuning in to the bird sounds and identifying the native animals now thriving in the preserve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2006

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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