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Museum Trails: I like. personalizing the museum experience

Museum 2.0

Last week, I spoke with Jim Richardson, managing director of SUMO Design , about their very cool new project with the North East Regional Museums Hub : I like. museums is a website on which visitors can search for museums in the North East region of England. It furthers the idea of museums as multi-use venues.

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The Voicemail Museum: A Call-In Collection

Museum 2.0

This week, I'm launching a new site: the Voicemail Museum. It's an experiment that merges two of my greatest interests: finding novel, easy ways for visitors to contribute content to museums finding questions that draw such compelling responses that random peoples' answers would be worth browsing To participate, all you need is a phone.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Microblogging in a Museum Context.

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Shoulder-to-Shoulder Instructional Media: My Tagging Screencast at NTEN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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Game Friday: Can Your Museum Afford to Play?

Museum 2.0

Yesterday, I turned in my keys and said goodbye to the Spy Museum and to Operation Spy, the narrative, immersive game experience I've been developing/building over the last two years. Adventure is a slice of a large museum, and it's been closed to the public for the last few years (only available to be rented for special events).

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Comment Cards 2.0: Three Tools to Check Out

Museum 2.0

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. that the signal-to-noise ratio is low. These services could be a powerful, cheap alternative to comment cards--especially those that are focused towards making suggestions about the museum. Simple, understandable functionality.

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The Exclusivity Paradox

Museum 2.0

On sites like Wikipedia and YouTube, the ratio of spectators to producers is even more pronounced; on sites like Flickr or Facebook, the ratio is lower. of Museum 2.0 Tags: design usercontent. In social media, the rule of thumb is 90-9-1 : 90% spectate, 9% comment or rate content, and 1% produce content.

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