Why do you care about and or work in museums? This post tells my (weird) story. I hope you'll share yours in the comments below (or on...

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation . The hi...

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. It's the one place wher...

Here are two pictures. The first one is me. The second one is George. George is a stranger I met last week at SFMOMA’s new show, The Art ...

Collection-tagging projects (in which visitors assign keywords to items in a collection) have always left me cold. Tagging is such a functi...

Thank you. This is a post to say thank you. Today, Museum 2.0 is celebrating its second birthday. And when I think back on the last year an...

Last week, I was reintroduced to Scratch , a graphical programming language designed by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media La...

What is the ideal role of your marketing or PR team in the creation and distribution of content on the social Web? I'd aruge that it doe...

There are lots of things visitors can’t do in museums. But what about the things that museum professionals can’t (or feel they can’t) do? ...

I'll be in Philadelphia October 17-21 for the ASTC (Association of Science and Technology Centers) annual conference. I'd love to ...