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Want to Get Your Content Out There? Put it on Wikipedia.

Museum 2.0

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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Is Wikipedia Loves Art Getting "Better"?

Museum 2.0

It's rare that a participatory museum project is more than a one-shot affair. But next month, Britain Loves Wikipedia will commence--the third instance of a strange and fascinating collaborative project between museums and the Wikipedia community (Wikimedians). I hope you'll share your thoughts in the comments.

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Museums that Get Better the More People Use Them

Museum 2.0

Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0 featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). This concept has spawned a question I like to obsess over: What would a museum look like that got better the more people used it?

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Users active in online social environments based on social objects like Flickr (photography), Ravelry (knitting), and Wikipedia (information) often trend older.

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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

Museum 2.0

For example, in Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives, knowledge and comprehension of content comes before application. Shulman offers the great example of doctors, relating a comment from a surgeon that, “’Internists make a diagnosis in order to act. Was this the right decision? Narratively, this makes sense. Back to my diagram.

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2.0 Culture Wars: Luddites and 2.0topians

Museum 2.0

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. Consider, for example, the above image, created by David Lee King , which describes less a spectrum than an ascension to 2.0topia. And even if you understand what a site does, what can it do for your museum?

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50 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. For a great example of a nonprofit using Meetup, see the the Nature Conservancy’s Picnic for the Planet. Museum of Me :: intel.com/museumofme.

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