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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. The NetSquared website was itself designed to be a model Web 2.0 Wikipedia is a community, Craigslist is a community, Moveon.org is a community, eBay for crying out loud is a community. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. The buzzword then was Web 2.0,

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

Institutions like the Boston Children's Museum (which she helped lead in the 1970s) drew heavily from and worked in partnership with the "open classroom" movement to develop informal educational models that are interactive, open-ended, and individualized. Why haven't children's museums pushed past the 1970s model?

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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, Tags: ROI. Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices.

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Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century in 714 Words (or less)

Museum 2.0

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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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

One of the most promising models for doing so (and a potential way to structure the NAS report) is scenario-based planning. In this model, rather than trying to answer a set of broad questions, you look at the spectrum of viable conditions and extrapolate useful strategies from those. Tags: professional development.

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