Museums and Web 2.0

Giving a lecture tonight at UTS to a bunch of students about what museums are doing in the Web 2.0 area. Some points I'll make:

• Challenging authority
  
• Developing a sharing mindset
  
• Perpetual beta
  
• Engaging visitor experiences and developing communities
  
• Revenue raising
  
• 20% different, not 20% more
  
• Organisational change
  
• Informal learning; constructivism and the link to social media/online experiences
  

Some of the experiments we're conducting via the Engaging Social Media ARC grant at the Museum I'll discuss are:

• All About Evil exhibition development and blogging
  
• Facebook and museum 'characters' (Winny Saur and our echidna)
  
• Museum in a Box and professional development
  
• Using Flickr
  
• Climate Change exhibition/program and Twitter
  

I'll also reference the Mattress Factory; Brooklyn Museum; IMA and Powerhouse Flickr commons and object of the week.

I'll also look at how to develop a Web 2.0 mindset as explained in the diagram below, which I've been playing around with:

I'm attempting to do this lecture only using the web (i.e. I don't have a set presentation) – in this way we can explore what's happening together and discuss as we look at websites. I hope like hell the internet connection works!