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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. As I imagined a world without the many museum tech projects of the decade, I felt inherently sad about the imagining away the successes that friends and colleagues have enjoying. But I couldn’t get there.

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GA4 FAQs: What Mission-Driven Organizations Need to Know

Forum One

It might record that the user clicked play and then clicked pause after 16 seconds, or that they searched for the hours of a museum, clicked through to the information page, and stayed for 40 seconds. The next five months can be your learning phase. What happens to my existing data? Google has announced two key dates. Implement it.

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The FCC and Accessibility

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It’s not clear that money awards would be an important driver of this Phase: the gift of attention to the issue would be the main payoff. The bigger question is about how to structure the second phase. Tags: accessibility X-Prize NPII awards Obama TRACE clearinghouse Vanderheiden FCC.

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What Could Kill an Elegant, High-Value Participatory Project?

Museum 2.0

Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. These tags would be added to the books in the catalog to build a kind of recommendation system. The Haarlem Oost tagging return system wasn't one of these. Or, so I thought.

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How to Develop a (Small-Scale) Social Media Plan

Museum 2.0

Yesterday, I enjoyed three hours of graduate students' presentations of social media plans for museums in the Pacific Northwest. Jill Hardy worked with a museum that is trying to attract a younger, more diverse adult audience. Tags: web2.0 For example. Go forth and do awesome things. You can do them one at a time. marketing.

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Interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard Part 2: Rethinking Membership and Admissions

Museum 2.0

This is the second part of a two-part interview with John Falk and Beverly Sheppard on their book Thriving in the Knowledge Age: New Business Models for Museums and Other Cultural Institutions. I love this idea, but I often find that museum staff are really nervous about making any changes that might alienate current members/donors.

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Game Friday: Exhibits that Emulate Casual Games

Museum 2.0

It's summer; the museum and the exhibition were hopping. Exhibits, like casual games, strive for a neglible learning phase to precede user action. Plus, the fact that you wait in line to play creates a natural voyeuristic preparation phase in which you watch others play and plan your own strategy. Which means getting in line.

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