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Worst of Museums for this Decade

Museum 2.0

Djupdraet (@mdjupdraet) December 9, 2019 Instead museums found themselves at the mercy of the next big thing and the whims of tech firms: Being big tech guinea pigs: We end up with unsustainable shiny tech and then just feel used. If museums actually did change their fundamental structures change might happened but so many are not.

Museum 45
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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

In most sessions, I didn't learn new things to apply to my own museum practice; instead, I learned new things about what that practice looks like in different countries. They are places outside our daily lives--the Arctic, Papau New Guinea--and are easy, in some ways, to ignore or forget. Who's leading that charge?

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Listen to Your Data: Lessons from a Multilingual Text Message Campaign

NTEN

Because mobile messaging is so new, there aren't many rigorous best practices or established guidelines. What's hard is finding a customer who wants to be a guinea pig as we explore new avenues of outreach. It's only in the last few years that cell phones have become widely-adopted enough to create a truly pervasive mobile campaign.