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WebWise 2009: Part 2 (Online Communities and The Institution)

Posted in Collections, Education, Governance, Internet, Interpretation, Marketing, Resources, tagged , , , , on March 4, 2009 | 1 Comment »

One of the nice benefits of the WebWise Conferences is being surrounded by other people who have similar interests in engaging the public with our missions through new technologies (at last, someone who nods understandingly when I say RSS or metadata). Often, you also meet people that you’ve known (or know you) through their [...]

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WebWise 2009: Part 1

Posted in Collections, Education, Governance, Internet, Interpretation, Resources, tagged , , , on February 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I’m in Washington, DC attending the 10th annual WebWise Conference, one of the biggest meetings on technology for museums and libraries and sponsored by Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Wolfsonian-Florida International University (WFIU). It’s “sold-out” (even though it’s free) with an expected 300 people in attendance. Scanning the list of [...]

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Internet and Community: Report from WebWise 2.0 part 3

Posted in Education, Internet, Interpretation, Marketing, Resources, Visitor Research, tagged , on March 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This third report on the WebWise 2.0 covers the IMLS National Study on the Use of Libraries, Museums and the Internet and the session on “The Power of Presentation” (Second Life, Pachyderm multimedia software, and Colonial Williamsburg’s Virtual Republic) from Thursday afternoon and only highlights those portions that most closely relate to historic sites. If [...]

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Internet and Community: Report from WebWise 2.0 part 2

Posted in Collections, Education, Historical research, Internet, Interpretation, Resources, tagged , , , , on March 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

This second report on the WebWise 2.0 covers the project demonstrations and the session on “The Power of Discovery” from Thursday morning and only highlights those portions that most closely relate to historic sites. If you want to learn more, visit webwise2008.fcla.edu for the agenda and links to the demonstration projects (and there was a [...]

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Internet and Community: Report from Web Wise 2.0 part 1

Posted in Collections, Education, Internet, Interpretation, tagged , , , , on March 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I’ve just spent a few days in Miami Beach, Florida at the Web Wise 2.0 Conference, an annual event sponsored this year by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Wolfsonian-FIU, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. This year’s theme focused on community and the sessions addressed several different ways to engage users [...]

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