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Want to Get Your Content Out There? Put it on Wikipedia.

Museum 2.0

His foundation supports a private museum that is rarely open to the public. While there are many ways for museums to reach new audiences, when it comes to specialized knowledge, it's often a question of reaching the niche who care deeply about German watches from 1822 or the evolutionary shift in raccoon striping over time.

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Treat Your Website Project Like an Investment Rather than an Expense

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The big problem is that most nonprofit web design projects are considered a one-time expense, instead of a long-term investment. Drupal gets updated and maintained by millions of developers (a lot like Wikipedia). For example: Recruiting volunteers takes valuable staff time. Mind Shift: Expense Versus Investment.

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Museums that Get Better the More People Use Them

Museum 2.0

Today I got an early present from the San Francisco NPR station, KQED, which aired a piece on Museum 2.0 featuring me (as well as the fabulous Lori Fogarty of the Oakland Museum of California). In the interview, we talk about the idea of Web 2.0 How could a museum get better the more people use it? Thanks in advance!

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Private Foundations Are Now Eligible for Citrix Online Donations

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Examples of private grantmaking foundations are the Alcoa Foundation, the BP Foundation, the Walmart Foundation, and the Boeing Company Charitable Trust. Paul Getty Trust, which operates the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California and the Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia. Private Grantmaking Foundation.

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Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century in 714 Words (or less)

Museum 2.0

Dear Museum 2.0-ers, ers, Next week, I'll be going to DC for a meeting convened by the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Museum and Library Services on "Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century." Over the last 50 years, public-facing museums and libraries in the U.S. From the Web 2.0

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

Museum 2.0

For example, in Bloom’s taxonomy of Educational Objectives, knowledge and comprehension of content comes before application. Shulman offers the great example of doctors, relating a comment from a surgeon that, “’Internists make a diagnosis in order to act. Was this the right decision? Narratively, this makes sense. Back to my diagram.

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Why Are So Many Participatory Experiences Focused on Teens?

Museum 2.0

Over the past year, I've noticed a strange trend in the calls I receive about upcoming participatory museum projects: the majority of them are being planned for teen audiences. Teens more commonly use the Web to stay in touch with their pre-existing social groups than to join new communities based on content affinities or interests.

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