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Archive for November 2009

News from National Digital Forum – New Zealand

This website would very much appreciate any input from people who attended the NDF2009 in New Zealand. Please send info at info@museummedia.nl. The National Digital Forum, in working towards collectively building New Zealand’s culture and heritage online, holds an annual conference. The conference is typically held in

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What Really Makes the Most Interactive Museum in DC?

Very nice blog by Linda Norris: “And about those interactives. There is a ton no other word really of video in the museum. Good news, it was all working. Bad news–it felt a bit overwhelming and found a good deal of sound bleed from one to another.

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Wikipedia co-founder designs wiki style directory of educational videos for children

Dr. Larry Sanger, co-founder of Wikipedia, has launched a new website designed to gather and organize educational videos for students ages 3 to 18. The site, www.watchknow.org, launched in October and currently features more than 11,000 videos across 2,000 categories on subjects such as math, science and history.

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War Story – Imperial War Museum works with troops to record and share their frontline experiences

Servicemen and women are being encouraged to share their frontline experiences as part of War Story, a new initiative launched by the Imperial War Museum. War Story will allow active service personnel to record their personal stories as part of the Museum’s national collection relating to contemporary conflicts. Using

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Calling all curators: what does social media mean to you? Survey of curators by Erika Dicker

Powerhouse Museum curator Erika Dicker is preparing a paper to present at the Museums and the Web 2010 on the changing role of the curator. In a very Web 2.0 approach, Erika is crowd-sourcing the content of the presentation by asking the curatorial fraternity to complete an

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