(cross-posted from The Clutter Museum) There’s been a ton of talk over the past year about how participating in social media—whether through blogging, social bookmarking, Twitter, Flickr, or whatever—can be a form of curatorial practice. And I totally get the appeal of that particular metaphor. In fact, I understand that some people mean to use [...]
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Professional development in museums
Note: This is a revision of an earlier version of this post. As an adjunct professor in John F. Kennedy University’s graduate program in museum studies, professional development is frequently at the front of my mind. By “professional development,” I mean helping students and emerging museum professionals become more thoughtful museum thinkers and makers. I’m [...]
10 lessons museums can learn from Twitter
These days, it seems everyone is going gaga over Twitter, a microblogging platform that functions in many ways as a customizable group instant messaging client. If you’ve never seen Twitter, when you first visit the site, you may be overwhelmed by all the junk–in so many languages–on the home page. Don’t let that distract you. [...]
Just-in-time learning
In my former job as an educational technologist, we talked quite a bit about how best to reach faculty who were too busy (or reluctant) to use technologies that might genuinely prove useful to them or their students. Eventually, we figured out that faculty don’t want to hear about technology until they need it–and then [...]
Percolations: Museums and Social Networking Sites, Part V
Note: This is part V of a series. Read part I, part II, part III, and part IV. All right. . . Now that we’ve taken a whirlwind tour of some of the web’s most popular social networking sites, let’s take a moment, sit back, and enjoy a cup of a favorite beverage. (In the [...]
RSS feed for new museology books
I’ve created an RSS feed from Amazon’s selection of museum studies books. Once you subscribe, you’ll get updates on the latest books–published and upcoming–in the museum field. You can find the feed here. If you don’t already use feed readers such as Google Reader or Bloglines to subscribe to RSS feeds, you should consider it. [...]