Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Back in the early 1990s, I was "hoisting" web pages onto the Internet with a colleague David Green who worked at the New York Foundation for the Arts on the Arts Wire project. Now a Second Wave is about to hit: Cyberinfrastructure. The table of contents can be found here.

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NSF New York Arts Journal 50

Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

ExhibitFiles is a community-based site launched last month to encourage the documentation, sharing, and exploration of exhibits and the exhibit design process. Last week, I spoke with Jim Spadaccini ( Ideum ) and Wendy Pollock ( ASTC ) about their experiences creating this site. Enter ExhibitFiles. Why is that?

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NSF Interview Case Study Museum 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. the name of this site is X or the name of this artifact is Y), you can search based on the terms that users identify with the item.

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Game Tag Fun NSF 20

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

If you've clicked on a link to the site from this post, congratulations--you are a ScratchR spectator. I've joined the site, but I haven't yet uploaded anything or commented on anything. ScratchR is not 100% safe, as I'll explain, but they have created a site that is fully functional for both kids and adults. I'm one of them.

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