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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

Books are a distant second at 61%, and a majority of Americans find print and broadcast media and the Internet to be not trustworthy." Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age.

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New Models for Children's Museums: Wired Classrooms?

Museum 2.0

The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. They were ahead of the museum curve, using language like "participatory learning environment" (Brooklyn Children's Museum, 1977) that is still thick in the mouths of contemporary museum directors in other fields.

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How do you devise a future strategy for a diffuse Internet-based global movement? ” While Wikipedia is the fifth most visited web site, its budget and staff is relatively small and it relies on 100,000 contributors across the world to create and edit content. Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Lessig presents this as a desirable ideal and argues, among other things, that the health, progress, and wealth creation of a culture is fundamentally tied to this participatory remix process. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. Looking at using some of the free tools on the internet?

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The Exclusivity Paradox

Museum 2.0

It’s common to have low expectations with regard to the number of people who will create content in participatory platforms (online media-sharing sites, contributory projects, story-sharing exhibits). And yet ironically, we spend most of our time with participatory projects accentuating how open they are. 1% is a pretty exclusive club.

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