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Dreaming of Perpetual Beta: Making Museums More Incremental

Museum 2.0

When I started this blog in 2006, I made a multi-media introduction to the concept of "museum 2.0" Venue as content platform instead of content provider: the museum becomes a stage on which professionals and amateurs can curate, interpret, and remix artifacts and information. The museum gets better the more people use it.

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EduPunk: An Introduction and ReMix: NpTechPunk

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

philosophies to museum exhibit design, offers both low- and high-tech edupunk visions. Barbara Ganley's philosophy of teaching and digital expression is an elegant manifestation of edupunk. Nina Simon , with her imaginative ways of applying web 2.0

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Young people are not gaining the 21 st century skills and experience required for today's tech-centric workforce—and that's a huge problem. Defining Digital Literacy. But first, what exactly is digital literacy?

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Take a Side Trip to the Denver Art Museum

Museum 2.0

This week, the Denver Art Museum (DAM) opened a new temporary exhibition called The Psychedelic Experience , featuring rock posters from San Francisco in the heyday of Bill Graham and electric kool-aid. It is an incredible museum experience. The visitor is given a copy of her poster and the museum keeps a copy as well.

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Last Chance to Vote for Nonprofit SXSW Panels: Closes September 4th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Check in with the game changers beautifully hacking tech to fight climate change. Museum APIs: What Are They Good For? In Museums, context can be hard to come by. It's Not All About You: Respecting Your Users Dinosaur to Digital: A Museum Convergence Success Story. Submitted by Rachel Weidinger.

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Nonprofit Technology Rockstars take on SXSW09!

Connection Cafe

Delicious Tech for Localism: Sustainable Food 2.0 Remixing the Museum Exhibition Room B Monday, March 16th 10:00 am - 11:00 am. My Boss Doesn't Get It: Championing Social Media to the Man Room B Friday, March 13th 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm. Room 10 Tuesday, March 17th 11:30 am - 12:30 pm. Featuring @rachelannyes.

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Guest Friday: Jessica Harden's Notes from AAM

Museum 2.0

Since I'm living at the Spy Museum right now in the run-up to the opening of Operation Spy, I asked Museum 2.0 Jessica Harden here: Museum 2.0’s conversations began on Monday afternoon when I attended The Museum Group’s discussion on the topic: “Web 2.0: in museums? reader--and now contributor!--Jessica

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