Category Archive for Museums

The New Web: Interactive and Collaborative Technologies in the Museum World

A bit of shameless promotion here for a course I will be teaching for the Cultural Resource Management Program at University of Victoria. It is a one-week intensive course looking at new and emerging technologies (a.k.a. The Web 2.0) and their applications for museums. It will be held the first week of June 2006. I taught a Web 1.0 version of this course a few times in 2002-2004, it always had a great mix of people from museums large and small. I know…

The State of Museum Blogs

The Walker Art Center has a post on the State of Museum Blogs focusing on science museum blogs. The Walker has been blogging longer than any museum (that I’m currently aware of). They have six blogs going on a variety of topics.

Why blog?

Why blog? It’s a good question, and one we talked about quite a bit around the studio. We’ve decided to blog for a few reasons. First, we’re deeply interested in the technologies surrounding Web 2.0. We’ve been working with RSS feeds, podcasts, and we’ve even begun developing Widgets. In addition, personally, I’ve been looking at Web 2.0 technologies including blogging for a workshop and paper (with Kevin Von Appen and Bryan Kennedy) for the Museums and Web Conference and…

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