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Image Beats Text: Good for Museums, Tough for Me

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I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. At our museum, Pinterest is a primary tool for brainstorming and sharing ideas. But what''s awkward for me is actually probably very good for museums. Projects'

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Are you a digital curator, packrat, editor, or snacker?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Further, they don't even need to create their own content, just as a museum curator rarely hangs his/her own work next to a Da Vinci. Packrat: I think of digital pack rats as using tags and rss to aggregate information - the huge, unfiltered tag stream. Steve Rubel called them "Aggregators." The other terms.

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Mapping Experiences: Rethinking Wayfinding in Museums

Museum 2.0

We looked at the museum map on the wall. There was a recent post on the ASTC listserv from a museum planning to revamp their wayfinding system. The wayfinding question in museums—or any complex space—is multifaceted. When the aggregate names are abstract, it’s hard to know what to expect. million nodes.

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Wikis: What, When, Why

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s Hawaiian son as applied to museums. Consider these two stories of museum-related wikis that struggled. In May of 2007, Woody Sobey released a wiki for science museum educators to share their demos. Woody had seeded the site with about 12 demos from his own museum, but the wiki never took off. What's a wiki?

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