Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 " NetSquared Up Close and Personal. These were in-person meetings that were made possible by the website Meetup. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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Netsquared Wikipedia San Francisco Iraq 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. As other museums have entered the "participatory learning" conversation, children's museums have not moved on to a new generation of audience and principles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Museum 2.0

JULY 1, 2008

Today, both of these models are threatened, and within 50 years they will no longer be sustainable. Why are our current models failing? Regardless of how museums and libraries portray themselves, it’s clear to users: Wikipedia belongs to them. Ideas participatory museum professional development inclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

The Wikimedia Foundation ambitiously envisions a “world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” They then formed task forces to consider various options and make decisions, using a consensus-based model.

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Open Source Open Case Study Wikipedia 92

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. While there are some criticisms of its consensus-based model for information-vetting, there's no doubt of its success as a collaborative knowledge-creation project.

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Wiki Wikipedia Museum Doc 23

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS has expressed high interest in hearing from interested parties who were not at the meeting; please share your personal 21st century issues as comments and they will get to the labcoats in Washington. One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning.

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