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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

Museum 2.0

If you want the quick and dirty look at the conference, check out the ephemera tagged #mw2008 (twitter posts, flickr images, a blog entires). Institutions like the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum are getting thousands of quality tags and comments on previously hidden away images. Tags: Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Sending Collections on the Road: Geocaching and Museums

Museum 2.0

For a related teen project , I was invited to teach roughly 200 middle- and high-school students about geocaching (a GPS-based scavenger hunt) so that they could send miniature sculpture pieces out into the world. refers to are dog tags with unique serial numbers on them that geocachers can use to track items easily online.

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Designing Talkback Platforms for Different Dialogic Goals

Museum 2.0

There was a wonderful example at the Ontario Science Center in their Hot Zone area, which features several voting and commenting kiosks popular with teens. In this case, we talked about placing a large physical map of recommendations in the lobby rather than at the "end" of the experience, where visitor feedback often lives.

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Stellar year-end fundraising strategies for busy nonprofit leaders

Get Fully Funded

Give Every Teen the Chance to Chase Their Dream. Map out how you plan to share your stories via social media, email marketing, your website, and your snail mail appeal so that you get maximum value for each story you tell. In fact, start with a them or key message for your year-end fundraising campaign. Every Kitten Deserves a Chance.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Visual Mapping and Diagnostics for Scaling Change : From Steve Waddel, Iscale - this paper has done the impossible! After you have your social network analysis map in hand, here's some tips for putting the information into practice. Twitter Demographics: Last month, we learned that Teens Don't Tweet. Inspiration.

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

As part of the session, Tom led live drawing ( click for high-res image ), and we invited the audience to add their own “can’t dos” to a large map of things that are “safe,” “iffy,” and “no way”--more on that later. Here are the words that came up on the comfort zone map: And here is the complete transcription of the post-its.

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Seven reasons I think "Datamasher" is so cool (and deserves your vote!)

Forum One

Datamasher is a web site where anyone can "mash-up" two sets of Federal data about US States to create a custom indicator, which can then be viewed by all on a State-by-State map or chart. Datamasher promises hours of such entertainment, such as " Healthy States for Teens " or " Hospitals per Person ". Tags: Technology.