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Interesting Uses of Technology: Virtual Libraries in Second Life

Tech Soup

YouTube and Wikipedia are usually first choices for information seekers. These virtual libraries are meant to support different aspects of student learning, making the aggregate and perhaps distributed content of a physical library more accessible. Anyone can publish through blogs, wikis, and websites.

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Guest Post from Museums and the Web: Bryan Kennedy

Museum 2.0

Thanks to Bryan Kennedy from the Science Museum of Minnesota for providing this overview/reflection on the Museums and the Web conference that recently concluded in Montreal. Museums and the Web 2008 guest blogger Bryan Kennedy here. This multi-museum collaborative is undertaking a thoughtful process to tackle these issues.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 situation unless museums can get the ???stickiness??? Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Seb Chan, of the Fresh + New Blog, raises an interesting question about web site stickness in a web2.0

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Good Lord, another blog.

Museum 2.0

But the aspect that most excited me were the discussions about active participation in museums. But the concepts behind them are powerful and useful in the discussion about the future of museums. No museum is as flexible or participatory as the Web has become. dynamic content aggregation and network machines).

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Wikis: What, When, Why

Museum 2.0

s Hawaiian son as applied to museums. The most well-known example is Wikipedia , a user-generated encyclopedia which boasts over 6 million entries written and edited by about 30,000 volunteer participants. Wikipedia, like YouTube and Facebook, is a giant in the world of Web 2.0. What's a wiki? What makes them succeed?

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Social Architecture Part 2: Hierarchy, Taxonomy, Ideology (and Comics)

Museum 2.0

I created a directional pyramid to make a point about social content in museum; namely, that museums are not offering networked, social experiences—and therefore will have a hard time jumping to initiating meaningful social discourse. And I’m not advocating that the dream museum would be all level 5 experiences, all the time.

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Google Homepage: Really, Really Simple Syndication

Museum 2.0

For example, to add Museum 2.0 On the right, I have direct wikipedia search and feeds from several blogs. No more opening Wikipedia in a new tab. Months ago, I wrote about the potential power of disaggregation for museums , referring to the concept of the "ultimate mix tape" of greatest hits and personal favorites.

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